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Bengal
Development Company, the flag bearer of Islam Group is a truly
integrated engineering company engaged in the board spectrum
of entire construction engineering and related areas.
Bengal Development Corporation (BDC) is the oldest construction
company of Bangladesh. Construction industry today is driven
by new technology development BDC’s leading edge technology
and enviable high product quality have put the company at
the very top of several companies in Bangladesh and South
Asia.
Bengal
Development Corporation was incorporated in 1951. Over the
period of its steady growth it had to fight for its very survival
by competing against the vested interests of (West) Pakistani
patronization by its own kinds. However, its devotion to the
construction business in the domestic market and its ceaseless
efforts to improve and excel ultimately placed the company
to a position to play a leading role in nation’s construction
sector. Primarily its main thrust were construction of roads,
bridges, buildings, warehouses, etc. which have now expanded
over a large and more diversified domain.
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In
the late 50’s, the prime building projects of BDC were
the Provincial Assembly Building, the Parliament Hostel Complex
etc. which were completed in a record time. Gradually with
the growing expansion of the urban areas, BDC involved itself
in the construction of large and multistoried public buildings.
In the field of industrial construction also, BDC played prominent
role like Fertilizer Factories, Power Plant & Jetties,
Dhaka International Airport Terminal Building etc. Apart from
those, under an emergency requirement BDC constructed Cyclone
Shelters in offshore islands of Bangladesh and 47 Food Storage
Godown in eight different locations in a record time. During
the sixties as Dhaka was developing into a metropolis, BDC
foresaw the requirement of constructing Housing Estates to
meet the expanding needs of the city dwellers. From that time
BDC has been playing an ever increasing role in combating
housing problem in Dhaka in multi dimentional approaches.
In
the year 1975, the oil rich Middle East was making efforts
for transformation of traditional ways of living to the modern
one. This generated boom in the field of construction and
BDC with its wide construction background procured contracts
in UAE, Iraq and Yemen to construct industrialized housing,
complete networks of roads, highways, water electricity, sewerage,
telephone etc. services and even restoration of heritage projects
and civic facilities.
During the mid-eighties, with the opening of the various (
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