The current safety regulations in slab-formwork construction only conditionally satisfy the requirements of health, safety and ergonomics. FreeFalcon – The mobile fall protection with its unique engineered anchoring design, closes this safety gap. This mobile personal fall-arrest system secures construction crew members where the risk of a fall is most critical. It significantly enhances user safety without sacrificing mobility, helping to minimise the risk of falls from height.

As an increasingly large proportion of the population is concentrated in cities, metro systems have become a crucially important mobility factor. Passenger numbers worldwide have increased by approximately 8.7 million in the last six years. According to current estimates, the global metro rail network will be expanded by 1,400 km per year. Doka is involved as a formwork expert on a large number of metro projects all over the world, providing the best solutions for a variety of construction methods.

A new trade fair for digital construction – "digitalBAU" – opened its doors from 11-13 February 2020 in Cologne. The focus of this leading digital construction trade fair was on digital technologies for the planning, construction and operation of buildings. Doka was taking this opportunity to present selected digital services designed to enhance productivity on the construction site to a broader audience.

In the future office spaces of the Varso Tower, people will be able to work in the tallest building in Poland. Doka is supplying formwork solutions suited to the modern architecture of the new building in the heart of Warsaw. The construction scheme is part of the Varso Place mixed-use development which aims to revitalise the surrounding city district.

Digitalisation and Construction 4.0 promise significant productivity gains for the construction industry and its complex planning processes and procedures. The use of building information modelling (BIM) in construction design is a key factor in these gains. BIM models are increasingly used as the basis for formwork planning. Doka is launching DokaCAD for Revit, its powerful software for automated formwork planning.

The experts at Doka created a virtual model based on building information modelling (BIM) for the construction of a reservoir in Vienna’s 23rd district so that wall formwork and cycle times could be planned precisely. This reduced the on-site work and resources required by construction company HABAU. Each worker’s formwork productivity doubled, with one casting section completed every three days.

Constructed over the Karakaya Dam Lake, the Kömürhan Bridge will soon forge part of the Malatya-Elazig State highway in Eastern Turkey. Measuring 600 metres in length, the bridge features a cable-stayed design with a single pylon, which stands at 165 m in height. This special type of bridge, which is the fourth single pylon cable-stayed bridge in the world, will also serve an important regional role as a logistics corridor, not only connecting Malatya and Elazığ, but also serving as a strategic crossing for the 16 provinces of Eastern Anatolia.

A 21 km motorway bypass is being constructed to relieve traffic in Stockholm: E4 Bypass Stockholm, or in Swedish “E4 Förbifart Stockholm”. The bypass, scheduled for completion by 2030 doesn’t just stand out as one of Sweden’s biggest infrastructure projects: its 18 kilometres of tunnel will make it the second-longest underground tunnel in city buildings. Doka is providing the formwork equipment for four project sections.

Doka India officially inaugurated its new office and onboards its official channel partners in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

The EAP region accounts for a large proportion of global construction output, measured by Total Construction Output (TCO), which is the sum of the residential construction, non-residential construction and civil engineering. The high TCO level is accompanied by high dynamics: Annual real growth rates of around 4.4% per annum are expected for the period 2019 to 2021 for the EAP region. For comparison: The World-TCO real growth rates are expected to rise by 3.3% per year in this period.

Within the EAP region, the Philippines is one of the fastest growing countries with annual growth expectations of the TCO of over 8% between 2019 and 2021.