Company Brief
Atlas General Contracting, Real Estate Investments, Air Condition & Elevators Works co. subsidiary of the Holding Company for Construction and Development of the Ministry of Public Business Sector
The company had been established under the name of Atlas General company for public works & building materials in 1954 as an Egyptian Joint Stock Co. headed by Eng. Abdel Moneim Hafez. It took over public works (contracting), tiles & marble factory in Bahtim, carpentry & furniture factory in Ghamra. The company, located at 23 Kasr El Nile street, Cairo, started its work by executing Cleopatra Hotel in El Tahrir square then other giant projects.
The company has been 50% nationalized in July 1961, then it has been completely nationalized in 1964 under the name of Atlas General Contracting Company.
Tiba Contracting Company and the industrial Union for Vermiculite were merged into Atlas company in 1964, in addition to Kabbari Carpentry factory in Alexandria, Geziret El Dahab carpentry factory in Giza and Tahrir crittall factory in Beheira. The company assumed the implementation of several famous business such as the Academy of Arts in Haram, Abu Simbel Temple, the Industrial complex in Hamrawein, the participation in the second phase of Aswan reservoir power station, as well as the integrated housing projects and utilities in Libya.
By the law 203 for the year 1992, Atlas company became one of the Business sector companies and added to its previous activity the real estate investments works as buying & selling lands, constructing buildings on it for sell or rent, under the name of Atlas General Contracting and real estate investment Company.
Nile company for public engineering (Schindler- Trane) was merged into Atlas company in 2005 under the name of Atlas General Contracting, Real Estate Investments, Air Conditioning & Elevators Works co. The previous experience of the company (air condition, elevators, electricity) was added to Atlas previous experience.
Company Activity :
The company executes all kind of construction projects, utilities, air conditioning, elevators, prefabricated concrete, real estate investment projects. The company also owns show rooms for furniture and factories
In addition to the execution of all contracting, private & public works related to all works of engineering, construction, buildings, roads, airports, bridges, electric power plants, irrigation, civil, mechanical and electrical works of all kinds, construction of factories, manufacturing and trading all kinds of materials, equipment, tools and manufacturing wood, bricks, tiles and marble of all kinds domestic and imported, implementation of local and inter Holding agencies, real estate investments, buying and selling lands, constructing buildings on it for selling and renting.
During the last fifteen years, the contracting sector has been mechanized using concrete batch plants and raising equipment. All the company's factories were gathered in one complex in Ghamra, and an aluminum factory manufacturing (windows, doors, cladding) was established. In addition to the establishment of a major Furniture Showroom in this complex, that is considered as one of the largest furniture showrooms in Egypt, in addition to its two principal showrooms in downtown – Cairo.
The company has carried out international honorable projects, namely Moving Abu Simbel Temple , Aswan power station.