Construction & Infrastructure

Construction firms and infrastructure companies involved in settlement building and occupation infrastructure

Construction companies directly enable settlement expansion through building materials, heavy equipment, and engineering services for illegal colonisation.

  • Direct involvement: Settlement infrastructure fragments Palestinian communities through roads, utilities, and systems
  • UN documentation: Databases list companies involved in settlement activities for divestment campaigns
  • Legal risk: International law prohibits settlement construction, creating liability exposure
  • Leverage: Many institutional investors exclude companies directly involved in settlements
  • Action: Support campaigns against UN-listed companies and engage local authorities on procurement
Showing 3 companies in Construction & Infrastructure

Priority Target 2 companies

Serious harm, and highly vulnerable to pressure. Start here.

Heidelberg Materials (recently updated)

German building materials group, formerly HeidelbergCement, which still owns the Nahal Raba quarry in the occupied West Bank through its 99.98%-held subsidiary Hanson Israel. Extraction ceased in November 2023, but the company obtained Israeli approval in 2025 to extend quarrying, and the agreement it signed in 2020 to sell the quarry is contingent on that approval. Both Hanson Israel Ltd and Heidelberg Materials AG appear in the UN OHCHR settlements database published on 26 September 2025.

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JCB (recently updated)

British family-owned manufacturer of excavators, backhoe loaders and telehandlers, with 2024 group turnover of £4.88 billion. Listed by the UN at entry 86 of A/HRC/60/19 for supplying equipment that facilitates settlement construction and equipment for the demolition of housing and property, one of only four listed businesses under the demolition heading, and the only one not headquartered in Israel. JCB says all its products reach Israel through Comasco Ltd., an independent third-party distributor over which it has no control, and that it cannot trace a machine's history without a serial number. The UK National Contact Point found in November 2021 that JCB had breached the OECD Guidelines by having no human rights policy and carrying out no human rights due diligence.

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Challenging 1 companies

Serious harm, but low vulnerability. The long game, through investors, pension funds and procurement.

Comasco Ltd. (recently updated)

Israeli heavy-equipment importer, founded 1963, which has held the JCB franchise in Israel since 1966 and also carries POTAIN tower cranes and DMC Trucks. Listed by the UN for supplying equipment that facilitates settlement construction and equipment used in the demolition of Palestinian homes. It is the independent distributor on which JCB's own defence rests: the machines the manufacturer says it cannot follow into the occupied Palestinian territory reach Israel through this dealership.

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