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About G & S Builders

We started with a simple, unfashionable idea: build well, finish on time, and hand the keys over. Two finished towers later, that’s still the entire business plan.

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Zahid Gul, founder of G & S Builders, at work in the firm’s Islamabad office

How we got here

One building can be luck. Two is a method.

G & S Builders was founded in Islamabad by Zahid Gul, who had spent years watching the same thing happen across the local property market — projects launched with fanfare, sold on paper, and then quietly abandoned when the money or the will ran out. Buyers were left with nothing but a receipt and a hole in the ground.

We built Gul Heights 1 as the answer to that. Six floors at Main Markaz D-17, completed and handed over. Not a phase. Not a partial delivery. The whole building, finished, with residents moving in.

Gul Heights 2 followed, and it mattered more than the first — because a single completed building can be luck, and two is a method. Seven floors delivered to the same standard, with the same team.

Today both buildings are fully occupied. And we’re breaking ground on Gul Skyline, the largest project we’ve taken on.

Gul Heights 1 → Gul Heights 2 → Gul Skyline →
Gul Heights 1 at dusk — six floors at Main Markaz D-17, Islamabad, with the ground-floor arcade lit Fully occupied

Milestones

The sequence, in order

Six steps, two of them handovers, and nothing on this list that a buyer cannot go and look at.

  1. 01

    G & S Builders founded

    Zahid Gul starts the company in Islamabad, as developer and builder in one, on the rule that a building is only finished when someone is living in it.

  2. 02

    Gul Heights 1 breaks ground

    Work starts at Main Markaz D-17, steps from Margalla Avenue — six floors of shops, arcade, retail mezzanine, offices and apartments.

  3. 03

    Gul Heights 1 handed over

    Fully occupied

    The whole building, not a phase. Occupied since handover, and still one of the best-maintained addresses on the street.

  4. 04

    Gul Heights 2 begins

    The second tower starts on the same street, with the same engineers, the same site team and the same suppliers — seven floors this time.

  5. 05

    Gul Heights 2 handed over

    Fully occupied

    Delivered to the same standard as the first, one floor taller. Two towers built, two delivered, two lived in.

  6. Now

    Gul Skyline under construction

    Bookings open

    The third building, and the largest we have taken on. Work is underway now. See Gul Skyline →

What we actually do

Developer and builder, deliberately both

We are a developer and a builder, and we deliberately keep both roles in-house.

That means we acquire the land, we design the building, we pour the concrete, we run the electrical and plumbing, we do the finishing, and we hand you the keys. There’s no chain of subcontractors passing responsibility down the line until nobody owns the problem.

When something on one of our sites isn’t right, there is exactly one company to hold accountable. Ours.

On the Gul Heights 2 site in Islamabad — the building under construction reflected in the site-office glass

One company, six stages, no handoffs

  1. 01

    Land

    We acquire the plot ourselves, so the ground is ours before anything is sold on it.

  2. 02

    Design

    The drawings are made by the people who will have to build from them.

  3. 03

    Structure

    Foundations, columns and slabs poured by our own crew.

  4. 04

    MEP

    Electrical, plumbing and mechanical run in-house, not tendered out.

  5. 05

    Finishing

    The same team that poured the frame closes out the unit.

  6. 06

    Handover

    Keys handed over by the company whose name is on the building.

See the full process What we take on

How we build

Four rules we do not bend

Not virtues — working rules. Every one of them is checkable inside a building we have already handed over.

Structure before finish

Marble and light fittings are easy to admire and easy to replace. Foundations, columns and slabs are neither. We spend disproportionately on the parts of a building nobody photographs, because those are the parts that decide whether it is still sound in thirty years.

Materials we can name

We use steel, cement, wiring and fittings from suppliers we can name to you on request. If a buyer asks what is inside the walls, they get an answer, not a brochure adjective.

Built for how people live here

Islamabad has its own realities — load shedding, water supply, summer heat, extended families sharing a home. We design for those instead of copying floor plans from somewhere else: generous water storage, backup power provision, cross-ventilation, and layouts that give a family somewhere to put everyone.

A handover date we mean

We give a completion date and we plan backwards from it. When something slips, buyers hear it from us first, with a reason and a revised date — not through silence.

The G & S Builders office, Islamabad.

The office

Where the decisions get made

Every drawing, every price and every handover date is agreed in this room. The person who agrees them is the person whose name is on the building.

It is a working office, not a showroom. If you come in, this is what you will find.

A building is only finished when the people who bought into it have their keys and the place still works years later. That rule is why both Gul Heights towers were delivered whole rather than in phases, and it is the one Gul Skyline is being built to.

Zahid Gul

Founder & Managing Director, G & S Builders. He walks the sites; the decisions about steel and concrete are his.

The team

The people on the job

Zahid Gul, Founder and Managing Director of G & S Builders, at his desk in Islamabad
Confirmed for publication

Zahid Gul

Founder & Managing Director

He founded the company, and he is on the sites. Decisions about steel, concrete and finishes are not made in a meeting room by someone who will never see the result — they are made by the person whose name is on the building.

The four roles behind him

An anonymous developer is a red flag in this market. These names are being confirmed for publication, and no invented one goes up in the meantime.

  • Project Director

    Name to be published

  • Chief Engineer

    Name to be published

  • Site Manager

    Name to be published

  • Sales & Client Relations

    Name to be published

Zahid Gul in conversation outside the Gul Heights 2 booking office in Islamabad

The same crew builds every floor of every tower — that is why the second building came out like the first.

The paperwork

Registered, approved, accountable

G & S Builders is a registered construction and development company operating in Islamabad, Pakistan. Our projects are approved by the Capital Development Authority (CDA).

We’re happy to show documentation to any serious buyer. Ask.

On the record

Registered as
Construction & development company
Operating in
Islamabad, Pakistan
Company registration
To be confirmed
Projects approved by
To be confirmed
Approval reference
To be confirmed
Delivered and occupied
Gul Heights 1 & 2

Go and look at the last two.

Both towers are at Main Markaz D-17 and both are lived in. Knock on a door and ask the owner how the handover went. We would encourage it.

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