Est. 2008
Accra
380 on the books
Who turns up
Eighteen years, two hundred and forty finished buildings and a site team you can name. This is the firm behind the hoarding.
Work with us
About us
We build the way we would want a building built for us
Forge started in 2008 with one site, four people and a borrowed mixer. We now carry three hundred and eighty on the books and run between six and nine jobs at a time across Greater Accra — but the way we work has not moved: directly employed trades, an honest programme, and a manager on site who answers the phone.
We are classified D1K1 by the Ministry of Works and Housing, which lets us take on the largest building and civil contracts issued in the country. We take on rather fewer than that allows, because a firm that is running twenty jobs is not really running any of them.
What we hold to
Plain reporting
Two pages a month, in language a board can read. If something has slipped, it says so on page one rather than in an appendix.
Our own people
The frame, the blockwork, the finishes and the site management are directly employed. Specialists are subcontracted; the building is not.
Safety as a deliverable
Method statements before tools, hoarding before dust, and an incident record we publish whether or not anyone asks for it.
We answer afterwards
Twelve months of defects cover with a one-working-day response. A building we handed over is still ours to stand behind.
The people on the contract
Join us
Abena Sarpong
Managing director
Twenty-two years on site, the last eleven of them running the business. Chartered builder, and still walks every job once a month.
Efua Danso
Construction director
Runs the site teams and owns the programme. If a date moves, it moves because Efua signed it off, not because the weather did.
Naa Amerley
Head of quality & safety
Keeps the quality records and the near-miss book. Has stopped two of our own jobs, which is exactly what the role is for.
Selorm Ahiabor
Commercial manager
Cost plans, valuations and the monthly report. Writes the two-page version our clients keep telling us they can actually read.
On the ground
Most of what we do never makes the photographs
Setting out on a plot that slopes eleven metres. Drainage that has to work in a September storm. A block delivery that arrives while a school is still in session. The finished building is the easy part to photograph and the last part to happen.
Classification
D1K1 — Ministry of Works and Housing
Directly employed
380 across site and office
Concurrent jobs
Six to nine, deliberately
Insurance
Contract works and £10m public liability
Completed projects
People on the books
Years building
Square metres built
Active sectors
Trusted by clients
Their site team kept the programme moving without ever hiding a problem from us. Every milestone landed when they said it would, and the finish is better than the drawings promised.
Michael Anaman
Commercial property developer, Accra
