Vienna/Amstetten, 09.09.2021 - PORR, Austria's second largest construction group, together with Doka, a company of the Umdasch Group, are founding a joint venture to establish a mutual construction logistics platform to digitise and optimise processes related to ordering, delivery and invoicing processes. The stated aim: “construction logistics - connected & connecting”. The initiative is set to undertake pioneering work for the entire European market. The focus in the first stage is on the most complex of construction materials: in-situ concrete.

The countdown has started. Ideas for innovative solutions that make a significant contribution to digitalization in shell construction can be submitted for the Josef Umdasch Research Prize until 7 November 2021. The winner will have the opportunity to implement their idea in cooperation with Doka.

How to coordinate, document and communicate as site manager

People tend to cross bridges as quickly as possible; because you never know. Experts even have a term for this phenomenon: gephyrophobia or “bridge anxiety”. Yet these valley-spanning structures are true expressions of supreme engineering skill, as illustrated by the new Aftetal bridge in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Robert Hauser will take over as chairman of the Executive Board on 1 July 2021.

2020 was a year like no other.

The new powder coating plant is one of the most modern plants of its kind in Europe and one of the largest production investments Doka has made in decades. The plant also confirms Doka’s clear commitment to environmentally friendly industrial production based on state-of-the-art digital technologies and to meeting its customers’ needs: soon all frames from the Framax product range can be powder coated quickly and flexibly in a wide range of colours.

Helmut Weißengruber (Doka Austria) and Martin Sonnberger (PORR) explain why having a safety concept is less expensive than having no safety concept at all.

Doka has been awarded an Innovation Award of Excellence by the CTBUH 2021 Awards Programme for its DokaXact system. The award will be presented during the CTBUH 2021 Conference, which will be held virtually for the first time from 18-20 May.

With the sensor-based CONTAKT construction site software, Doka offers a digital solution that brings the construction project planned in BIM to life on the real construction site. The new Fröschl office building is an outstanding example of CONTAKT at work.