Cost-effectively forming geometrically challenging twin suspension towers
In Zaporozhye, the industrial metropolis in Ukraine’s southeast, a multi-lane cable-stayed bridge is being built alongside an older viaduct. On completion, this large-scale infrastructure project will massively reduce the traffic burden on the existing bridge and significantly improve the daily traffic situation at this major river crossing.
Intricately designed core shaping up fast with Doka
The commercial and economic centre town of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv will soon boast a new landmark structure. Set to top out at 167 m, the Champion Tower will be one of the tallest office buildings in Israel’s metropolitan region of Gusch Dan. Doka Israel is supplying this complex development with a comprehensive formwork solution consisting of Automatic climbing formwork SKE50 plus and Xclimb 60, Load-bearing tower Staxo and other items from the Doka ‘construction kit’.
Fast cycle times despite oblique-angled joins
Two Doka cantilever forming travellers (CFTs) have been fielded for building a new bridge over the Rhine in Basle. The piers are set at a slight angle to the river, necessitating oblique construction joints in the transverse direction of the bridge. Despite this challenge, fast forming-times are being achieved.
Modular solution for extreme cross-sections
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.
Doka establishes Safety Network
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.
CRM Best Practice Award: Doka Group among prizewinners
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.
Reliable forming of some pathbreaking architecture
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.
ParaTop: The ground-support-free cantilever arm formwork from Doka
The efficient way of forming cantilevers without ground support – that’s ParaTop, the recently developed bridge formwork system from Doka.
Climbing operations continuing even in force-8 winds
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.
Onwards and upwards with spiral car-park ramps
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.
Single-side-operable form-ties needing no investment in new framed formwork
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.
Optimised formwork concept for huge railway-station project
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.
Smooth progress of work despite extreme superstructure dimensions
Doka cantilever forming traveller scores top marks for high adaptability and short cycle times on a massively dimensioned bridge superstructure in Nitra, Slovakia.
Large areas shored quickly and safely with Staxo 40
More than 14,467 m² of slab are being shored with the new Doka load-bearing tower Staxo 40 during construction of the Manipal University Campus in Dubai. This ergonomically engineered and weight-optimised load-bearing tower system is delivering both fast erection & dismantling times and high workplace safety at this site, making a key contribution towards a more efficient construction workflow.
Pathbreaking formwork solutions for supertowers
Doka is underlining its strong market position in the high-rise sector with a slew of exceptional new projects that are all destined to join the list of the world’s tallest buildings. Among the next supertowers to rise with the aid of Doka climbing technology are the Lotte World Tower in Seoul, the CMA Tower in Riyadh and the Lamar Towers in Jeddah.
Fast construction progress with new load-bearing tower Staxo 40
Only a few months after being launched, Doka’s latest innovation in the segment of economical shoring systems – the Load-bearing tower Staxo 40 – is demonstrating its benefits once again, this time at the prestigious Shemouk Twin Towers project in Doha.
Foldable Xclimb protection screen kepps busy Toronto area safe during construction of luxury hotel
Displaying modern opulence in the midst of the business district, the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto will offer lavish accommodations for discerning guests. The 200-room extravagant hotel will occupy the first 17 floors of this development while luxury condominium residences will be located on the upper levels of the 65-story tower.
Doka Gulf FZE relocates into expansive new facilities in Jafza
Doka Gulf FZE, a subsidiary of Doka Industry GmbH one of the world’s leading companies in the field of formwork technology for the construction industry, announced its relocation to the company’s new U.A.E. headquarters in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), to support rising demand for its innovative products and service offerings.
Elite Residence Erected in a 5 day cycle
Tameer’s 91 floor Elite Residence, ideally located in the heart of Dubai Marina with stunning views of the Palm Jumeirah Islands, is destined to become one of the most exclusive and sought-after addresses in the Middle East. Construction has been underway since 2008 and is now in the completion stages. To execute this challenging high-rise project, building contractors relied on Doka, The Formwork Experts.
Keeping the Bay Cool
The Brayton Point Power Plant, New England's largest fossil-fueled generating facility, flushes 1.3 billion gallons of water a day into Mount Hope Bay. That’s the equivalent of 20 football field-sized swimming pools filled to a depth of 150 feet.
