2008
To
2026
Eighteen years
We have been on Ghanaian sites since 2008, through three cedi devaluations and one pandemic. Here is what happened.
Where it started
A container, a mixer and one contract
Forge began as four people finishing a shop unit on the Spintex Road. There was no plan to become a main contractor; there was a job, and then another one, and by the third year we were turning work down because we could not staff it honestly.
That is still the rule. We take on six to nine jobs at a time — never more, whatever the classification allows — because a firm running twenty sites is not running any of them, and the client on site nineteen is the one who finds out.
The years
2008
One site, four people
A single shopfitting contract on the Spintex Road, run out of a rented container with a borrowed mixer parked beside it.
2011
First frame
Our first reinforced-concrete frame — a four-storey office in Osu — and the first year we employed our own steel fixers rather than hiring them by the week.
2014
Classified D2K2
Registration with the Ministry of Works and Housing opened up public work, and the first hospital extension followed within the year.
2017
Tema yard
A fabrication yard of our own, which took steelwork off the critical path for the first time and has kept it off since.
2020
Working through
Six sites, split shifts, and not one job abandoned. We came out of it with the same crews, which is the only statistic from that year worth quoting.
2022
Classified D1K1
The top financial class for building and civil work, which lets us tender for anything issued in the country. We still take on six to nine jobs at a time.
2026
Two hundred and forty
Two hundred and forty completed buildings, three hundred and eighty people on the books, and a defects book we are not embarrassed by.
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
