Construction Companies in Turkey

ENKA was founded in 1957 as a partnership between Şarık Tara and his brother-in-law, the late Sadi Gülçelik, both civil engineers who graduated from Istanbul Technical University. At its inception, ENKA’s official name was, “Şarık Tara ve Sadi Gülçelik ENKA Limited Şirketi” and registered in Istanbul as a limited liability partnership.The most significant projects in the early years were the construction of the Istinye Highway Bridge, the Unkapanı Flyover, the General Electric Motors Factory and the Haydarpaşa Grain Silos in Istanbul, the rubber tire plant in Adapazarı, the Siemens Cable Plant in Mudanya, the aluminum cable plant and the Goodyear rubber tire plant in İzmit, the Pimaş Plastic Factory and the Chrysler Truck Assembly Plant in Gebze and the Aksu Paper Mill in Giresun.In 1967 following a period of rapid growth, the company’s limited liability partnership was transformed into a joint stock company, and the name was also altered to “ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi Anonim Şirketi”.At the beginning of 1970, ENKA was involved in 35 construction projects all running concurrently, ten of which were abroad. Contracts with foreign companies began to develop into joint ventures, first in Turkey, and then, internationally.

Established in 1993 by Dr. Erman Ilıcak, Rönesans Holding furnishes services as the main contractor and investor in 24 countries throughout the world. Operating in such fields as construction, real estate development, energy and health, the Holding is the 44th largest international contracting company of the world and the 10th largest contractor of Europe. Rönesans Holding currently constructs shopping malls, offices, hotels, houses, composite structures, heavy industry plants, infrastructure projects, manufacturing industry plants, chemical and pharmaceutical plants, food and beverage processing plants, automotive and machine factories, government buildings, health complexes and power plants with its 56,000 officials. Rönesans Holding’s size of assets climbed to 6,4 billion USD at the end of 2016 with a global turover amounting to 3,4 billion USD at the end of 2015. Rönesans Holding currently operates in Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Poland, Belarus, Germany, Nigeria, Switzerland, Austria, Iraq, Qatar, Libya, Finland, Belgium, Japan, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Luxeburg, Gabon, Curocao and St. Lucia and aims at implementing new projects in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the Middle East, African and European countries.