Basil Read Holdings Limited, founded in 1952 and listed on the JSE, is one of the top construction companies in South Africa. Operating throughout Africa, its subsidiaries specialise in civil engineering, road construction, building, mixed integrated housing developments, property development, bitumen distribution, opencast mining, blasting operations and engineering design, procurement and construction management.

The group’s construction division develops and implements technical and financial engineering solutions for private and public sector clients covering projects such as earthworks, bridges, pipelines, harbour and marine works, industrial plants, stadiums, roads, highways, airports, retail and office complexes, apartment blocks, educational facilities, hospitals, prisons and residential housing.

The group’s mining operations comprise opencast contract mining, mine rehabilitation, bulk earthmoving, seam mining, hard-rock selective mining, materials handling, blasting and excavating.

Basil Read’s developments division is involved in the construction, development and project management of integrated housing schemes and other property-related developments.

The group’s new engineering division’s core business is engineering design, procurement and construction management (EPCM) and the division is able to offer a wide spectrum of services including resource identification, bankable feasibility studies, mine and production planning, process engineering, project execution, delivery and handover, and architectural design.