Horema was not created in an office. Its foundations were laid years earlier through the fieldwork, projects and relationships that shaped our experience.
Libya
Where the Foundation Was Built
Libya
Where the Foundation Was Built
In 1974, Engineering Consultants Group (ECG) undertook major field and consultancy work in Libya alongside American and European engineering firms.
The work spanned groundwater exploration, geology, surveying, water infrastructure and geotechnical investigation — including wells reaching 800 metres and pumping tests lasting months.
For us, this was where the foundation was built: international engineering standards, learned and applied on the ground.
Cairo
Experience Grows
Cairo
Experience Grows
That experience continued with the Greater Cairo Waterworks Master Plan, bringing further exposure to major investigations and international engineering practice.
Each project added knowledge. Each international collaboration raised the standard.
Alexandria
Horema Takes Shape
Alexandria
Horema Takes Shape
In 1980, Horema was established to support the major USAID-backed Alexandria wastewater programme, providing ground investigation, drilling and laboratory testing, followed by quality assurance during construction of treatment plants, pipelines and tunnels.
An American specialist from CH2M Hill, Lloyd Macovitch, worked full-time alongside us for approximately six years.
Horema’s technical foundation was also shaped by distinguished academics, including the late Dr. Kamal Khalifa, the late Dr. Ahmed Khalil Gamal El-Din, a pioneering figure in soil mechanics at Alexandria University, and later the late Dr. Adel Barakat, then Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.
We learned from them, and from the international engineering firms we worked alongside — American, European, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and others — over many decades.
Today
Knowledge Passed Forward
This is how Horema’s expertise was formed: project by project, test by test, and generation by generation.
We always held a deep respect for knowledge, and for the people who carry it. We sought it wherever it was — in books, references and libraries, with professors and experts, and in every project we worked. We learned from those who came before us, and from everyone who had knowledge or experience to add.
And what we learned, we never kept to ourselves: we built it into a technical library, trained our engineers on it, and passed it to those who came after us.
Over the years, Ahmed Elkhawalka carried the commercial and operational responsibility, helping build and sustain Horema as an enduring business.
The equipment changed. The working methods evolved. The projects grew larger. This principle remained with us.
Respect the science and the people who carry it. Preserve it. Pass it forward.
We planted something meant to last for generations.