Yekom

What Yekom does

Yekom Consulting Engineers is a private, employee-owned engineering consulting firm founded in Tehran in 1973, providing integrated consulting services across water resources, environment, and infrastructure development. The firm operates 12 service lines spanning water resources management, water resources engineering, dam and hydropower, irrigation and drainage, water transmission, water supply and sewerage, road construction, urban development, river engineering, environment and ecology, agriculture and natural resources, and agro-industry. Its underlying technology stack combines numerical and stochastic modeling, GIS, remote sensing, decision support systems, and specialized computational hydraulic models to deliver feasibility studies, detailed design, construction supervision, and project management consultancy for large-scale infrastructure projects. Yekom disposes of over 500 employee-owners, has completed more than 1,000 projects, and serves clients across Iran and internationally (Syria, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Cuba).

The firm's revenue model is professional services consulting, with project-based fees negotiated per contract through competitive tendering with government ministries, provincial water authorities, municipalities, and industrial clients. The go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, anchored in long-standing relationships with Iran's Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Jihad Agriculture, provincial water authorities across 19 provinces, and multilateral development banks (World Bank, Islamic Development Bank, FAO, UNDP). Pricing is quote-based with multi-year contract cadences; no public rate card exists. The firm is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and ISO 45001:2018 certified, and holds highest-tier competency certifications from Iran's Planning and Budget Organization across multiple engineering disciplines. Yekom also plays an advisory role in national environmental initiatives (Urmia Lake Restoration Program) and engineering services export promotion, and positions itself as a deal-sourcing partner for foreign investors interested in Iranian infrastructure projects.

Name

Yekom

Legal name

Yekom Consulting Engineers

Website

https://yekom.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1973

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Yekom Consulting Engineers is a 500-employee private engineering consulting firm in Tehran, Iran, providing integrated water resources, dam, irrigation, and environmental infrastructure design and supervision services to government ministries, provincial water authorities, and international development clients across 5+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering Consulting Services

NAICS

Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413), Environmental Consulting Services (54162), Hydroelectric Power Generation (221111), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Water Supply (4941)

akta.pro primary industry

Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hydropower EPC & Construction (Civil Works, Electromechanical) (EUACAEAF), Water Resources, WASH & Integrated Water Management (BPADALAH)

Keywords

• Engineering consulting services
• Water resources engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Infrastructure development
• Project management consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Tehran

HQ country

Iran

HQ region

Middle East

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Yekom generates revenue through professional engineering consulting services including feasibility studies, detailed design, construction supervision, and management consultancy for water, environment, and infrastructure projects. Revenue is project-based and derived from contracts with government ministries, provincial authorities, municipalities, and industrial clients. Services are delivered across multiple phases (study, design, supervision), and the firm also provides project management consultancy (PMC) services for large-scale infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Yekom is a private joint-stock consulting engineering firm that delivers multi-disciplinary engineering consulting services in water resources, environmental management, and development/infrastructure projects. It plans, designs, supervises, and manages projects for primarily public-sector and large institutional clients in Iran, drawing on approximately 500 employee-owners with technical, environmental, and project management expertise.

Product overview

Yekom Consulting Engineers is a private joint-stock consulting firm founded in 1973 in Tehran, Iran. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of engineering consulting services organized into 12 major service lines: Water Resources Management, Water Resources Engineering, Dam and Hydropower, Irrigation and Drainage, Water Transmission, Water Supply and Sewerage, Road Construction, Urban Development, River Engineering, Environment and Ecology, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Agro-Industry. These services cover the full project lifecycle from feasibility studies and design to construction supervision and project management consultancy. The company operates with over 500 technical and administrative staff and has completed over 1000 projects, with significant international experience in Syria, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, and Cuba. Yekom functions as a traditional engineering consulting firm rather than a software product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Water Resources Engineering Consulting Multi-disciplinary consulting engineering services for water resources projects, including feasibility studies, design, supervision, and related advisory work for public-sector and institutional clients in Iran.
• Environmental Engineering Consulting Consulting engineering services for environmental studies, assessments, and management programs, delivered alongside water resources and development work for public-sector and institutional clients in Iran.
• Development & Infrastructure Engineering Consulting Engineering consulting services for development and infrastructure programs, including planning, design, supervision, and project management, delivered to public-sector and institutional clients in Iran.

Quantifiable outcome

• Study, design and/or construction supervision of over 400,000 hectares of irrigation and drainage projects
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered major and minor.

• ACE (Pakistan)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term JV partnership spanning over 25 years for Moghan Irrigation Improvement project and Ajichai Irrigation & Drainage Network Development in Iran, within the framework of World Bank-funded Irrigation Improvement Project (IIP). Also jointly delivered Construction Supervision of Moghan Irrigation & Drainage Improvement Project (10 schemes).
• Arcadis Euroconsult (Netherlands)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYekom-Arcadis Euroconsult JV served as central consultant for the Irrigation Improvement Project (IIP), Ministry of Jihad Agriculture, financed by the World Bank (2006-2009).
• Mott MacDonald Euroconsult (Netherlands/UK)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYekom-Mott MacDonald Euroconsult Consortium served as project management support consultant for Alborz Integrated Land & Water Management Project financed by the World Bank (2009-2011).
• ERM (UK) - Environmental Resource ManagementmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation with ERM UK on Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of South Pars Gas Field Development SP 9-10 (2002-2005) with Deutsche Bank financing, and Environmental Management Plan of Tehran Sewerage Project (2007-2009) with World Bank financing.
• Stucky (Switzerland)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSefidrud Dam rehabilitation project in Iran, with Stucky providing specialized dam engineering expertise as international consulting partner (2010-2014).
• Fichtner (Germany)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarine Biology Baseline Survey of South Pars Gas Field, Phases 9 & 10, with financial support of the Deutsche Bank (2011-2013).
• FBNE Limited (Tanzania)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYekom-FBNE Limited association as consultant for preparation of Integrated Water Resources Management and Development Plan (IWRMDP) for Internal Drainage Basin (IDB), Tanzania, covering 163,000 km² (since 2010). Also preparing Wami-Rovu basin plan.
• TEMPO (Turkey)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRural wastewater project in southeastern Iran (Zone 5), executed with TEMPO from Turkey and financed by the Islamic Development Bank.
• Sogreah/Artelia (France)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture for Raees Ali Delvari Dam studies in Iran. Sogreah (now Artelia) collaborated on Stage 2 studies of the dam project.
• LOTTI (Italy)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStage 1 feasibility studies for Raees Ali Delvari Dam in Bushehr province, Iran.
• Samuel Hall (France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood value chain project conducted jointly by Yekom and Samuel Hall.
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUromiyeh Lake Environmental Management Plan with cooperation of FAO and the World Bank (1998-2000), and Uromiyeh Lake Watershed Integrated Water Resources Management financed by UNDP (2005-2008).
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUromiyeh Lake Watershed Integrated Water Resources Management project financed by UNDP (2005-2008).
• Beyond Nature (Tanzania)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for water resources management projects in Tanzania.
• BETS (Bangladesh)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational consulting partner for regional development projects.
• Kazgiprovodhoz (Kazakhstan)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for water resources engineering projects in Central Asia.
• IIGH (Russia)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational partnership for water and environmental engineering projects.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Stucky: Swiss engineering consultancy specializing in dams, hydropower, and water infrastructure. Stucky partnered with Yekom on the Sefidrud Dam rehabilitation in Iran, and both firms compete in the same niche of large dam and hydropower engineering and rehabilitation services.
• Arcadis: International design and consultancy firm with a strong water and environment business. Yekom-Arcadis Euroconsult JV served as central consultant for the World Bank-funded Irrigation Improvement Project, making Arcadis a directly comparable peer in integrated water resources and irrigation consulting.
• DHI (Danish Hydraulic Institute): Denmark-based water and environment specialist with proprietary hydraulic and water resources modeling software. DHI is a listed technical-cooperation partner of Yekom and a directly comparable peer in numerical hydraulic modeling, decision support systems, and integrated water resources management.
• Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers: Major Iranian consulting engineering firm with overlapping capabilities in dams, hydropower, irrigation, water resources, and environment. Mahab Ghodss is the closest domestic direct peer, competing head-to-head with Yekom on Iranian government tenders and international projects.
• Mott MacDonald: Global engineering, management, and development consultancy with deep water, dams, irrigation, and hydropower practices. Yekom has been a long-term consortium partner with Mott MacDonald (via its Euroconsult arm) on World Bank-funded projects in Iran, making it a directly comparable peer in the same technical domains and donor-funded project context.
• Fichtner: Germany-based engineering consultancy active in energy, water, and infrastructure. Fichtner partnered with Yekom and ERM on the South Pars Gas Field marine biology baseline survey, and competes in the same water, environment, and infrastructure consulting space, especially in MDB-funded projects.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): Global environmental and sustainability consultancy. ERM and Yekom have collaborated on environmental and social impact assessments for South Pars Gas Field and the Tehran Sewerage Project, competing in the same environmental consulting, ESHIA, and infrastructure EIA markets.
• Artelia: France-based (formerly Sogreah) engineering group with water, energy, and infrastructure capabilities. Artelia partnered with Yekom on the Raees Ali Delvari Dam studies in Iran, and competes in the same dam engineering, hydropower, and water resources consulting markets.

Emerging players

• Royal HaskoningDHV: International engineering and consultancy with strong water, delta, and resilience practices. Royal HaskoningDHV competes for the same integrated water resources management, river engineering, and climate adaptation consulting assignments that Yekom pursues, particularly in donor-funded work.

Broad incumbents

• SNC-Lavalin (AtkinsRéalis): Large global engineering and project management firm with broad water, infrastructure, and environment practices. While broader in scope than Yekom, AtkinsRéalis competes for the same World Bank and IDB-funded water and infrastructure mandates, particularly in MENA and Central Asia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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