Mashriq Engineering Construction Company — road, bridge and canal contractor, Afghanistan
Roads that outlast us
Mashriq Engineering Construction Company · Kabul, Afghanistan · Since 2003
The Record
First contract signed January 2004. Most recent, November 2025. Every year in between, on site.
President's Message
We began in 2003 with four people and one office in Kabul. Everything this company owns since — the plants, the fleet, the engineering office, the ten regional offices — was built one contract at a time, by people who had to be right the first time because there was no margin to be wrong.
I hold this company to a simple standard: we do what we said we would do, in the time we said, to the specification we agreed. Where the specification will not survive the ground it sits on, we say so before we build. On three projects we have paid from our own funds for the better detail rather than deliver work we knew would fail early. A road that fails in five years is not a saving, and I will not put my name to one.
The men and women who work here have built in Nuristan and Badakhshan, in short seasons and hard terrain, far from any supply chain. Their safety comes before schedule and before margin. That is not a policy written for a document; it is the condition on which I accept a project at all.
Twenty-two years, fifty-four contracts, thirteen provinces, without a year off site. The highways our people drive on, the bridges they cross, the canals carrying water to their fields — these outlast contracts, governments and companies. They are the only honest measure of what we have done.
To every client who has trusted us with that responsibility: thank you. We intend to keep deserving it.
President, Mashriq Engineering Construction Company
- Client
- Ministry of Public Works
- Carriageway
- Two lanes, 7.3 m
- Terrain
- Rock gorge, river-adjacent
- Structures
- Stone retaining walls
- Province
- Laghman
- Funder
- World Bank
- Length
- 4,801 m
- Quantities
- 63,360 m³ earthwork · 6,170 m³ concrete at 25 MPa · 658 t high yield steel
The President walks the alignment with the site team during compaction. Nothing on a MECC project is signed off from an office.
- Province
- Kandahar
- Status
- Ongoing
- Works
- Subgrade and compaction
- Plant
- MECC-owned fleet
- Client
- To be confirmed
- Contract reference
- To be confirmed
- Province
- Paktiya
- Client
- USAID
- Contract
- AID-306-C-14-00008
- Works
- Surface course, 25 km section
- Project
- Aynak access road
- Province
- Logar
- Fleet
- MECC-owned haulage
- Site
- Daily safety briefing
The Project Record
Every contract, 2004 to 2025
Fifty-four completed and current contracts. Filter by sector to see depth in one discipline, or read the whole list to see the continuity.
Showing 54 of 54 contracts
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| Project | Sector | Province | Start | Days | Client |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ganjawar Primary School for Girls | School | Laghman | Jan 2004 | 160 | UNOPS |
| Shakelabad Primary School | School | Laghman | Jul 2005 | 160 | IOM |
| Titan Valley Bridge | Bridge | Nuristan | Feb 2006 | 175 | Laghman PRT |
| Micro-Hydro Electrical Power Generating Plant | Dam | Laghman | Jun 2006 | 90 | Laghman PRT |
| Chandalam Canal | Canal | Laghman | Nov 2006 | 100 | Laghman PRT |
| Kundagal Bridge | Bridge | Laghman | Feb 2007 | 175 | Laghman PRT |
| Tupak Bridge | Bridge | Laghman | Jul 2007 | 150 | Nuristan PRT |
| Padisaw Micro-Hydro Facility | Small dam | Nuristan | Aug 2007 | 120 | Nuristan PRT |
| Pipe Scheme, Governor's Compound | Building | Nuristan | Sep 2007 | 120 | Nuristan PRT |
| Nazyan to Highway 1 | Road | Nangarhar | Nov 2007 | 365 | Nangarhar PRT |
| Mehtarlam to Alishang Road | Road | Laghman | Jan 2008 | 485 | Laghman PRT |
| Ghani Khel Retaining Wall | Road | Nangarhar | Feb 2008 | 365 | Nangarhar PRT |
| Achin DC to Highway 1 | Road | Nangarhar | Jul 2008 | 365 | Nangarhar PRT |
| Dawlat Shah — Alishang Road (Phase II) | Road | Laghman | Aug 2008 | 540 | Laghman PRT |
| Dari Noor Road | Road | Nangarhar | Aug 2008 | 365 | Nangarhar PRT |
| Laghman Highway 1A Repairs | Road | Laghman | Feb 2009 | 30 | Laghman PRT |
| Ghani Khel Bridge | Bridge | Nangarhar | Apr 2009 | 60 | Nangarhar PRT |
| Reconstruction of Farkhar Warsaj Road | Road | Takhar | Aug 2010 | 730 | H.P. Gauff Ingenieure |
| Parwaye Bridge | Bridge | Laghman | Dec 2010 | 365 | MoPW |
| Gardez–Khost Road (Section 2B) | Road | Paktiya / Khost | Feb 2011 | 300 | LBG & BV JV |
| Rehabilitation of Chaghcharan City Road | Road | Ghor | Apr 2011 | 365 | UNOPS |
| Kariz Ghar Mountain Roads | Road | Laghman | Apr 2011 | 180 | Laghman PRT |
| Ganjawr Road | Road | Laghman | Apr 2011 | 180 | Laghman PRT |
| Gardez–Khost Road (Section 2A) | Road | Paktiya / Khost | May 2011 | 275 | LBG & BV JV |
| Khost Truck Parking | Custom house | Khost | Dec 2011 | 365 | UNOPS |
| GK Road Maintenance Section 2 | Road | Paktiya / Khost | Apr 2012 | 150 | USAID |
| Kandahar Truck Parking | Custom house | Kandahar | Aug 2012 | 365 | UNOPS |
| 140 m RCC Deck Slab Girder Bridge (Zako Khail) | Bridge | Khost | May 2013 | 408 | UNOPS |
| 13 km Gardez to Khost Road | Road | Paktiya / Khost | Jul 2013 | 300 | USAID |
| GK Road Section 2 — construction & maintenance | Road | Khost | Jul 2013 | 300 | USAID |
| Gardez–Khost Road Section 2 Phase IV (25 km) | Road | Paktiya / Khost | Jun 2014 | 540 | USAID |
| Upgrading Infrastructure, Kart-e-Parwan | Street | Kabul | Dec 2014 | 330 | KMDP |
| Upgrading Infrastructure, Deh Murad Khan | Street | Kabul | Dec 2014 | 330 | KMDP |
| Silo Main Road (Lot 4) | Road | Kabul | Apr 2015 | 365 | KUTEI |
| 120 m Deck Bridge, Matoon-2 Dresh Kalai | Bridge | Khost | Aug 2015 | 365 | MoPW |
| 120 m Deck Bridge, Tagab Bazar | Bridge | Baghlan | Aug 2015 | 240 | MoPW |
| Rehabilitation of Nuristan RCC Road | Road | Nuristan | Sep 2016 | 300 | MRRD |
| Periodic Maintenance, Kabul–Jalalabad Highway (50 km) | Road | Kabul–Jalalabad | Dec 2016 | 365 | MoPW |
| Mehtarlam Baba Ring Road (0+000 to 4+801), asphalt surface | Road | Laghman | Mar 2017 | 365 | MoPW |
| 120 m Deck Bridge at Nahrin, Khost–Firng Road | Bridge | Baghlan | Mar 2017 | 365 | MoPW |
| Canal, Aryana Petrol Station Ave to 5th St Taimani | Canal | Kabul City | Mar 2017 | 365 | CRIDA |
| Canal, Traffic Avenue to Shaheed Avenue | Canal | Kabul City | Mar 2017 | 365 | CRIDA |
| Faizabad–Eshkashim Road, 108 km Baharak–Eshkashim section | Road | Badakhshan | Mar 2017 | 1095 | MoPW (sub-contract) |
| Periodic Maintenance, Kabul–Jalalabad Highway (35 km) | Road | Kabul–Nangarhar | Nov 2017 | 365 | MoPW |
| Periodic Maintenance, Kabul–Jalalabad Highway (53+800 km) | Road | Kabul–Nangarhar | Jul 2018 | 365 | MoPW |
| Bahsod Bridge – Abdul Khail Road (12+088.83 km) | Road | Nangarhar | Mar 2019 | 730 | MoPW |
| Shahi Canal, First Phase | Canal | Laghman | Oct 2019 | 365 | MoPW |
| Kabul–Logar Road, 1st Phase (7 km) | Road | Logar | Nov 2019 | 546 | MoPW |
| Qalat to Shahre Safa Road (0+000 to 16+843 km)Active | Road | Zabul | Mar 2024 | 365 | MoPW |
| Paktia Road, Pakhari and Sultan KhelActive | Structure | Paktia | Sep 2024 | 90 | — |
| Asphalt Road, Kabul–Gardiz Highway to Aynak Mine (K1+500–K8+859), Section IIActive | Road | Logar | Sep 2024 | 212 | MCC-JCL Aynak Minerals |
| Road Traffic Safety Facilities, Aynak Copper Mine Access Road (Section I)Active | Road | Logar | Jun 2025 | 20 | MCC-JCL Aynak Minerals |
| Asphalt Road, Kabul–Gardiz Highway to Aynak Mine (Section III)Active | Road | Logar | Jul 2025 | 120 | MCC-JCL Aynak Minerals |
| Site Leveling Project (Section I)Active | Leveling | Logar | Nov 2025 | 61 | MCC-JCL Aynak Minerals |
Days column is contract duration in days
Capability
We self-perform.
The plant below is owned, not hired. In Afghan conditions — mountain alignments, short seasons, remote camps far from any supply chain — projects are won and lost on whether a contractor owns its equipment and can hold a schedule without waiting on a subcontractor who may not arrive.
Owned plant
MECC owns and operates its own production plant, paving fleet and haulage.
Each machine in the register is illustrated. Photographs of MECC plant on site can be added to any slot from the page editor.
Asphalt batch plant
Production plant
Concrete batch plant
Production plant
Crusher plant
Production plant
Asphalt paver
Paving
Milling machine
Paving
Road marking truck
Paving
Grader
Earthmoving
Loader
Earthmoving
Excavator
Earthmoving
Jack hammer
Earthmoving
Roller
Compaction
Pneumatic tyred roller
Compaction
Dump truck
Haulage and lifting
Transit mixer
Haulage and lifting
Crane
Haulage and lifting
Key personnel
- Engineering and design
- 27
- Survey and quantity
- 8
- Quality control and laboratory
- 13
- Environment, health and safety
- 9
- Operations and logistics
- 18
- Finance, procurement and administration
- 21
- Camp, stores and support
- 19
119 positions — the standing establishment for a major highway contract. Roughly 50 design engineers work from the Kabul engineering office, supported by ten regional offices.
- Province
- Nuristan
- Precedent
- First pavement in province
- Terrain
- High mountain, short season
- Access
- Off supply chain
- Client
- Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
- Width
- 30.66 m including drains and footpaths
- Quantities
- 11,855 m³ earthwork · 2,160 m³ reinforced concrete M300 · 1,500 m³ stone masonry
- Lighting
- LED, full length
Engineering judgement
Three times we built above the specification.
A contractor can meet the drawing and walk away. On these three projects the drawing would not survive the ground it sat on, so we said so before building, recalculated, and built the better detail — once at our own expense.
Farkhar Warsaj road
The scope specified double bituminous surface treatment. Given the terrain and the population density along the alignment, DBST would not have lasted. We proposed full asphalt pavement instead, and built it.
Dawlat Shah bridge
The client's design called for 25 MPa concrete. We rechecked the load and traffic flow across the structure and moved the mix to 30 MPa for durability under real service conditions.
Earthen drain protection
Scope required riprap — dry stone masonry. We used concrete mortar to produce grouted masonry instead, at our own expense, for the safety and service life of the road.
Alignment and survey
A poor alignment raises construction cost, maintenance cost and machine operating cost for the life of the road, and once built it is very hard to correct. Our survey teams select routes against four tests: short, easy to build and drive, safe through slopes and cuttings, and economical across the whole life of the asset. At Dawlat Shah in Laghman our engineers set an entirely new alignment, made possible because the community gave up private land and cropland for it.
Environmental assessment
Our environmental engineers run dispersion modelling for vehicle exhaust and plant stack emissions, and assess impact on water, habitat, flora and fauna, agricultural capacity, noise, traffic and landscape before work begins. Where impact is unavoidable we design the mitigation rather than absorb the damage. At bridges 9 and 10 on the Gardez–Khost road that meant diverting the water stream and installing a cofferdam, protecting the irrigation system serving croplands downstream while the structures went in.
Independent verification
In May 2010 the United States Army Corps of Engineers wrote to MECC regarding the 23 kilometre Alishang asphalt road in Laghman. Their engineers recorded that all aspects of the project exceeded design standards, that drainage structures were well designed and constructed with superior materials and workmanship, that MECC supplied laboratory test results for all materials, and recommended MECC for future reconstruction projects in Afghanistan.
US Army Corps of Engineers · Laghman Provincial Reconstruction Team · 18 May 2010
Work is delivered to AASHTO and ASTM standards under a documented quality management system, with sampling, material testing and geotechnical investigation carried out by our own laboratory staff on site.
The company
Built here, by people from here.
MECC began in 2003 with four people in Kabul. It now holds full EPCC capability — engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning under one contract — and works as prime contractor on highway, bridge, canal and building projects for government ministries, international donors and private industrial clients.
The company is registered with the Ministry of Commerce and the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency, and with the Department of Economic Development in Dubai.
MECC forms part of Mashriq Group, alongside Mashriq Logistic, MECC Building Contracting L.L.C in the United Arab Emirates and Mashriq Niazi Property Ltd in the United Kingdom.
Work is delivered to AASHTO and ASTM standards under a documented quality management system, with sampling, material testing and geotechnical investigation carried out by our own laboratory staff on site rather than outsourced.
Leadership
President
Shukrullah Niazi
Vice President
Kaihan Danish
Director, Project Management
Salim Zakir
General Manager
Vision and values
Vision
To be the engineering construction company of choice, delivering capital projects safely and consistently wherever we are asked to work.
Mission
To deliver any project, any time, in any environment, for the benefit of our clients, our people and the communities we serve.
Values
Uncompromising commitment to quality, health, safety and environment. An open relationship with our employees based on mutual trust and respect. Transparency, accountability and discipline. Integrity in everything we do.
Offices
Head office
Kabul
Mashriq Engineering Construction Company
Primary contact
Kabul, Afghanistan
Founded 2003
Regional office
Jalalabad
Mashriq Engineering Construction Company
Nangarhar, Afghanistan
Eastern region operations
Group office
Dubai
MECC Building Contracting L.L.C
United Arab Emirates
Separate company within Mashriq Group
Group office
London
Mashriq Niazi Property Ltd
United Kingdom
Separate company within Mashriq Group
Contact
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Send the scope and the province. We will tell you plainly whether we have the plant and the crew free for your window — and if we don't, we will say so.
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