On a motorway bridge being built over the River Mureş in Romania, four Doka cantilever forming travellers and the Large-area formwork Top 50 and Load-bearing tower Staxo 100 systems together ensured smooth construction progress. Doka delivered a comprehensive, custom-tailored formwork solution for everything from the bridge piers to the pier-heads and the technically challenging superstructure.

Safety is one of the Doka Formwork Experts’ core competences. Present in more than 70 countries, Doka’s globe-spanning sales organisation is familiar with the safety standards in every single one of its markets. To provide pathbreaking added value in all safety issues, Doka will be using the forthcoming A+A Safety Fair in Düsseldorf to launch the Doka Safety Network (DSN). With this networked information platform about construction-workplace safety, Doka aims to support its clients as a high-calibre partner in all safety issues.

An international jury awarded prizes for the best customer-relationship management projects, ranking Doka among the top three companies, at the Customer-Relationship Management (CRM) Expo in Nuremberg, Germany. The Doka Group came 2nd in the category ‘CRM Advancement’; its new CRM system allows it to deliver optimum customer care and development.

Mestia, in the Caucasus mountains of Georgia, is a mediæval town known for its many stone-built defensive towers. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and centre of a major winter sports region, the town has considerable tourist potential, which the Georgian government is making great efforts to develop. Some examples of these efforts may be seen in Mestia’s futuristic airport building, and in a new police station embodying pathbreaking fair-faced concrete architecture. Both these projects were designed by the Berlin firm of Architekten J. Mayer H. For the five-storey police station, Doka delivered high-performing formwork solutions and provided dependable support to the construction operations with a package of services.

The efficient way of forming cantilevers without ground support – that’s ParaTop, the recently developed bridge formwork system from Doka.

At Eemshaven in the Netherlands, an advanced anthracite-fired power station with a gross output of 1600 MW is being built in the space of just four years.

Since the huge BBI airport project got underway, Doka has supplied the wall and floor-slab formwork for very many contract sections – to keep work moving ahead swiftly and safely.

Only just over a year after the technical prototype was unveiled at bauma 2010, the single-side-operable form-tying system Monotec is now ready for series production and available for retrofitting to Doka framed formwork Framax Xlife.

Construction work on Vienna Main Station is moving ahead swiftly. The first section of the biggest rail-station project in Austrian history is scheduled to go into operation as early as next year. To carry out the extensive in-situ concreting works, the ‘HBF-Wien 01’ consortium turned to an economically optimised formwork concept from Doka.

Doka cantilever forming traveller scores top marks for high adaptability and short cycle times on a massively dimensioned bridge superstructure in Nitra, Slovakia.