US 181 Harbor Bridge – America’s longest cable-stayed bridge
Traffic in the USA has increased by 38.4% in the last 25 years, and along with it the importance of measures to create and maintain safe, efficient transport links. The city of Corpus Christi in Texas is rising to this challenge with the new US 181 Harbor Bridge, which will have a considerably higher capacity than the structure it is replacing. Doka’s formwork expertise was called in to help build the 164 metre high pylons and over 100 piers.
Trend Accelerator Corona IV: Store Design
Stop-and-go instead of a continuous stream of customers and separate niches instead of market places? What effects on store design has Covid-19? We asked the experts at umdasch. The designers Julia Mitteregger, Maik Drewitz and Peter Prisching provided the answers to our questions.
ALEJA-Center Ljubljana Food Court and INTERSPAR realised by umdasch
SES Spar European Shopping Centers, the market leader for shopping centres in Austria, opened the trend-setting ALEJA-Center in Ljubljana as a multi-functional shopping and leisure hot spot at the end of May 2020. The iconic building is a further architectural highlight in the magnificent cultural capital, Ljubljana, thereby creating a new rendezvous for the city’s inhabitants. The characteristic design features continue into the public areas of the Food Court within the centre; the specially crafted furnishings were supplied by umdasch.
Umdasch acquires an interest in the Turkish shopfitting company Madosan
Subject to the approval of the anti-trust authorities, which is still pending, the Store Makers at umdasch, Austria, will be acquiring a majority share in the Turkish shopfitting specialist Madosan in Bursa, a large city some two hours’ drive south of Istanbul. The present owners, Vedat Saygin and his wife Sevgi, will remain on board as minority shareholders.
New umdasch Innovation Hub in Duisburg: Design and digital expertise in one location
With their move to the new location in Duisburg, the digital experts at umdasch from Düsseldorf and the umdasch Store Makers team from Oberhausen will form a creative innovation hub for integral digital and analogue store concepts from a single source.
Trend Accelerator Corona III: Sustainability
Sustainability: the dictate of the moment or no longer in keeping with the times? We asked Michaela Drage, Engineering Director umdasch The Store Makers, about its relevance for the retail sector.
Trend Accelerator Corona II: Digital Retail
Has the time finally come for retailer to move into exclusively online shops? Or would it be better to incorporate digital elements into the store? Bernd Albl, Managing Director umdasch Digital Retail, reports in this interview on digital trends and which investments at the POS will make sense now and in the future.
Changing room disinfects itself: umdasch UV-C Fitting Room
The joy of lingering and shopping at the point of sale has been drastically curtailed by the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. The umdasch UV-C Fitting Room enables customers to try clothes, shoes & Co without worries. The changing room disinfects itself and the garments inside automatically via UV-C light.
Tunnelling for science
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the biggest particle accelerator in the world – and growing: to equip the LHC for new, more ambitious experiments in the next decade, the accelerator is currently being upgraded. Doka developed three different formwork carriages and numerous special formworks to help build the tunnel system required for the upgrade.
Trend Accelerator Corona, part I: The New Normality
What kind of experience are consumers looking for today? How important is the digital world? Is sustainability still relevant?In our new series “Trend Accelerator Corona” we shall be presenting you with the effects that the past months will have on the retail sector in the long term. Each week an expert from umdasch will be supplying some germ-free insider gossip from his specialist field. Silvio Kirchmair, CEO umdasch The Store Makers, provides the starting point with a general overview.
Paperless construction site thanks to digital twin
A replacement structure for a hydropower plant is being created in Flums SG – completely paper-free. In doing so, the client, planner and builder are relying entirely on BIM. Doka is also on board. The formwork experts are producing the formwork plans entirely in 3D. The data are exported to the overall model for the work preparation and used for ordering materials and execution. On the construction site, the 3D formwork model ensures more efficient workflows.
Katara Towers
Timed to be ready for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, a new luxury hotel complex is emerging on Qatar’s coast: Katara Towers. In addition to hotel rooms, the towers, which are just over 200 m high, will also contain apartments, offices, leisure facilities and restaurants. For erecting the core walls in the towers, climbing formwork systems from Doka were used.
“Evocco” from Ireland wins the Josef Umdasch Research Prize 2020
Within the framework of this year’s Josef Umdasch Research Prizethe umdasch Store Makers were looking for smart answers to the question regarding resource-saving concepts for tomorrow’s Point of Sale. Just before the coronavirus shutdown, the five finalists presented their forward-looking ideas in the Talent Garden in Vienna on 11 March. The Irish start-up “Evocco” convinced the international jury of experts with a consumer app which shows the ecological footprint by scanning the invoice. The winner is already working together with the Store Makers on the strategic further development of the solution.
A campus dedicated to the shoe craft legero shoemakers outlet opened
In Feldkirchen near Graz, everything revolves around shoes with the highest wearing comfort for young and old on 1,200 square metres since mid-April. legero united opens the "shoemakers outlet" and unites its four brands legero, superfit, VIOS and Think! under one new roof. The special feature is a circular building complex, which has also been taken up in the store concept. A perfectly staged experience tour, in which umdasch's store makers emphasized the identity and philosophy of the respective shoe brands both in the store design and through digital tools. True to the claim of legero united: Because it doesn't matter how you go your way.
Refilling is booming: umdasch Liquid Dispenser for ECOVER at Sainsbury’s
Good news is especially important in difficult times. It is therefore all the more gratifying that umdasch has succeeded in achieving a further milestone in sustainable shopping opportunities with the Liquid Dispenser at Sainsbury's (UK). In cooperation with the British supermarket chain and Ecover, a manufacturer of ecological cleaning products, a refilling system was again installed outside the German-speaking area. If the first test run is successful, the system will be rolled out.
Smart all-in-one solution against Corona: Hygiene Station from umdasch
Retailers in Austria are opening their doors again with caution and under strict conditions. umdasch has developed an intelligent solution for all industries and public areas, which enables contactless disinfection as well as automatic access management.
#weforretail Statement Silvio Kirchmair, CEO umdasch The Store Makers about the Corona-Effect in the shopfitting industry
The world and the retail sector are literally gasping for breath - now it is time to keep a cool head. Silvio Kirchmair, CEO of umdasch The Store Makers, talks in an interview about the situation at umdasch and how things could continue in the retail sector.
FreeFalcon
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.
On track with Doka
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.
Post report EuroShop 2020: Complete Success for umdasch
umdasch The Store Makers presented new perspectives for the retail sector of the future at the EuroShop in Düsseldorf from 16 – 20 February 2020. In an integral tour of a wide range of retail sectors, visitors could experience multimedia ideas, unusual materials and extensive opportunities for profitable measures at the Point of Sale.
