The Ghana National Construction Company was formed in 1958 as a jointly owned company  between the Israeli construction firm, Solel Boneh, and the Ghanian government's Industrial Development Corporation (the majority shareholder) -its primary responsibility being for the construction and maintenance of infrastructure and buildings produced as part of the government's programme of social and economic modernisation. Four years later, in 1962 the company was nationalised and following a merger with the Public Works Department, was re-branded as the Ghana National Construction Corporation.