History

1987     Erbacon Construction CC was established by its founder member, Dave Erskine, starting out initially as a specialised concrete repair contractor and later evolving into a full-service civil engineering contracting operation.
       
1996     A separate plant and scaffolding hire business, Bo's Hire and Sales CC, was established. This business was initially established to service the increasing plant hire needs of Erbacon Construction and in a fairly short period of time developed into a stand-alone national small plant hire operator.
       
2007     Erbacon Construction and Erbacon Plant Hire were converted from close corporations into private companies.

Erbacon underwent a restructuring, with the establishment of Bo's Hire and Sales and Erbacon Construction as the two wholly-owned subsidiaries of Erbacon Investment Holdings Limited.

Erbacon Investment Holdings Limited listed on the Alternate Exchange (AltX) of the JSE Limited on 7 December 2007.
       
2008     Armstrong Construction Pty (Limited) was acquired, adding a well-established industrial/commercial building company to the Group’s portfolio. Armstrong Construction was established in 1996.
       
2009     Erbacon finalised a subscription of preference shares arrangement with Medu Capital (Pty) Limited, a black-owned private equity investment company, effectively giving Medu an initial 29% stake in Erbacon as its BEE partner.

Erbacon acquired the entire share capital of Civcontract Civils (Pty) Limited (Civcon) and all its claims on shareholders’ loan account.

Erbacon achieved a CIDB rating of 9GB for the Group, with Erbacon Construction having achieved 8CE rating and Civcon a 9CE rating.
       
2010     Civcon obtained the OSHAS 18001:2007 safety accreditation.

Dave Erskine resigned as CEO, effective 1 June 2010, and Sean Flanagan was appointed Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 June 2010.

Bo's Hire and Sales consolidated the business of BO’s Small Plant Hire CC from 1 October.
2011     Erbacon Construction merged with Civcon to form one civils construction business, trading as Civcon.