Basil Read Holdings Limited operates as a construction company in South Africa and internationally. The company operates in five segments: Construction, Developments, Mining, Roads, and St Helena. It engages in the areas of civil engineering, road construction, building, mixed-use integrated housing developments, property development, opencast mining, blasting, and excavating. The company undertakes civil engineering and building projects, such as earthworks, bridges, pipelines, infrastructure, harbor and marine works, industrial plants, sports facilities, roads, highways, airports, and related activities. It also focuses on large-scale mixed income integrated housing developments for government, parastatals, and non-governmental organizations. In addition, the company offers surface contact mining services, including drill, blast, load, haul, dump, material handling, and processing services to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; and mine design, infrastructure development, planning, scheduling, operations management, surveying, and optimization services. Further, it designs, builds, and operates the St Helena airport project on the island of St Helena. Basil Read Holdings Limited was founded in 1952 and is based in Boksburg, South Africa.