One office.
Four decades.
Five pillars.
Founded in 1985 by Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Abdel Fattah Mahmoud, Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering at Alexandria University. It grew into a full engineering ecosystem — without losing the discipline that built it.
How the ecosystem formed
From father to son
Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Abdel Fattah Mahmoud
Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Alexandria University. Ph.D., Southampton University. Member of the permanent committee updating the Egyptian code of practice; head of the subcommittee for earthwork and groundwater control.
Eng. Karim Mahmoud Abdelfattah
Licensed Consultant Engineer, Egyptian Engineers Syndicate (Civil / Geotechnical, License No. 107847). Founder and chairman of the ASSIST ecosystem — carrying the 1985 discipline into five connected pillars.
Every project lives inside an Identity Box — capabilities, beliefs, society & environment, governance.
Our EST&R method — Environmental & Social context, Sampling, Testing, Recommendation — is the engine that expands that box. Every recommendation is a brick: it strengthens capability, sharpens belief, deepens community understanding, improves governance.
In the world’s rooms
IFAT Munich & Istanbul · GITEX Africa, Morocco · LEAP, Jeddah · Spielwarenmesse, Nuremberg · Expo 2020 Dubai · COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh.
“From Soil to Mars” — MAB | ASSIST