History
Setting Up: 1991- 1997
Icon Engineering Services Ltd. Abu Mohammed Masud, without any Financial investment and without any employee on the payroll. It initiated with a very small geotechnical laboratory setup in a rented garage. In early 1992, Beximco Engineering Ltd awarded a small contract of bored pile work for Rangunia– Hathazaree electrical transmission line at Chittagong. That was
the beginning and later in the following years IES did many small diameter bored pile construction projects and completed successfully. Few of them are mentioned here- UGC building, laundry building of Hotel Sonergaon, Parishankhyan Bhaban at Agargaon, Twin tower, Concord Grand at Shantinagar, Concord Regency at Panthapath, Golf Heights at Banani, ShundarbanTechnopark at Darussalam etc and many other small building projects. Decade for Stabilization: 1998- 2006
At the onset, IES faced a lot of troubles due to faulty workmanship of outsourced mechanical work that resulted in huge backlog and idle time. To overcome the crisis, IES set-up one mechanical workshop and started repair and maintenance of their own equipment and machines and IES got new momentum in site works. During this period we have constructed bored pile by conventional method for many prestigious projects having national importance. Among them bored pile for Hatubhanga bridge on Bangshi river at Mirzapore, Crown Cement Ltd at Mukterpur, Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Ircon International Ltd, Hz Shah Paran Bridge on Sylhet bi-pass road, Lafarge Surma Cement plant at Chattak under Lerson & Toubro Ltd, Kin Bridge Sylhet etc and many other projects are notable. During this period IES also started nondestructive pile testing work – PIT, Pile integrity test and PDA, High Strain Dynamic Testing for quality assurance test of pile foundation. Also, procured equipment for high tonnage pile load test work and conducted many pile load test having test load more than 500 ton. Stage of Development: 2007-2012
In 2007, we had undertaken a large diameter bored pile work for Arch bridge on Gulshan Lake between Banani and Gulshan. Technical specification restricted the rotary boring method to follow. IES have rented one table drive rotary drilling rig for the work but failed to accomplish drilling. As a result, engineers and workers had been humiliated and insulted by the client and consultant. IES took that as a challenge and started brainstorming to develop a machine to accomplish the job. Finally, collected old components from Dholaykhal and assembled in their own workshop to make a drilling machine and finally succeeded and finished the piling work by newly developed rotary boring machine. This is a milestone development of IES which boosted engineers and workers to go ahead.