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Setting regional benchmarks in sustainable facility management.
To set regional benchmarks in sustainability, energy efficiency, and client satisfaction through technology-driven facility management.
Heritage
Built on a century of Sharafi Group trust.
Sharafi Group is one of the UAE's long-standing family-owned business groups, known for quality, integrity, and professionalism across real estate, construction, and hospitality. For nearly 100 years the Group has expanded through reliability, craftsmanship, and long-term value creation.
Absher Integrated Facility Management operates under that umbrella — inheriting the institutional memory, regional relationships, and standards of a house with a century of work behind it, and channelling them into a modern facility management practice engineered for today's UAE.
![[Placeholder] Sharafi Group heritage — a century of UAE family business.](assets/images/about/heritage.jpg)
Message from the CEO
At Absher, our mission is to build upon Sharafi Group's legacy and redefine excellence in facilities management. Our people remain our greatest strength — including our IFMA-certified professionals — and ensure every client engagement reflects quality, care, and integrity.
Abdulla Sharafi
Chief Executive Officer
A century of growth and progress.
Key milestones reflecting the Sharafi Group journey — from regional trade in the 1930s to the launch of Absher IFM in 2025.
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1930
Foundations in regional trade.
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1940
Expansion into machinery and manufacturing.
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1970
Entry into UAE real estate.
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2006
Growth into hospitality.
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2013
Expansion into construction and engineering.
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2024
Architecture, joinery, and fit-out services added.
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2025
Launch of Absher Integrated Facility Management.
Vision and mission
The UAE's most trusted integrated facility management partner.
To be the UAE's most trusted provider of integrated facility management solutions — delivering efficiency, sustainability, and service excellence on every engagement.
The standards we operate to.
Six values that anchor every contract we mobilize and every account our teams steward.
Accountability & Adaptability
Named ownership at every site, with the agility to absorb changing scopes without dropping standards.
Ethical Standards & Honesty
Procurement, vendor relationships, and reporting held to a standard we'd publish openly.
Community Commitment
Local hiring, supplier inclusion, and contributions to the communities our buildings serve.
Quality & Consistency
Audited service delivery — the same standard at the first SLA review as at the hundredth.
Integrity & Transparency
Live performance dashboards and monthly reporting — owners see the building exactly as we run it.
Reliability & Responsibility
24/7 in-house response with Sharafi Group's institutional backing — promises kept and risks owned.
Why Absher
Engineering-led FM, with the service standard of a legacy house.
Six reasons asset owners and developers choose Absher to operate their UAE estate.
Heritage of trust
A century of Sharafi Group standards behind every account.
Flexible service models
Hard, soft, specialised, value-added, or villa diagnostic — bundle to fit.
Technology-driven, 24/7
CAFM, IoT sensing, and a live command-centre — round-the-clock.
Proven reliability
Decades of in-house operations across the Sharafi Group portfolio.
Integrated in-house capability
MEP, civil, fit-out, and soft services under one operations lead.
IFMA-certified expertise
Internationally accredited people on every account.