Safety with Doka Fair-faced concrete with Doka Architect’s wishes Standards and guidelines Choice of formwork and concrete Tender Costing Award of contract / Construction firm / Price/quality Operations Scheduling, planning and “Ready-to-Use” service Implementation, formwork application and concrete placement Results and appraisal Reference projects Formwork planning with Tipos Online-Planningservice Links Doka for schools	Standards and guidelines These help those who are putting the project out to tender to define it properly first, and help the contractors to actually erect the structure. If the “fair-faced concrete result” is not to be left to chance, and if misunderstandings between client and contractors are to be avoided, there will need to be unambiguous and practicable descriptions (wordings for invitations to tender, sketches, photos) for these “concrete surfaces remaining permanently on view”. By way of example, the following specifi c Standards and guidelines are available referring ÖVBB Guideline ”Formed concrete surfaces(fair-faced concrete)” available from Österreichische Vereinigung für Beton- und Bautechnik (Austrian Society for Concrete and Construction Technology, June 2002) DBV Datasheet “Fair-faced concrete” available from “Deutsche Beton- und Bautechnik-Verein E.V.” (German Concrete and Construction Technology Association, Bundesverband der deutschen Zementindustrie e.V. (German Cement Industry Association), August 2004 ÖNORM B2211 Concrete and reinforced concrete works – The Standard governing works contracts (April 1998) SIA 118/262 General Conditions for Concrete Construction, 2004 edition GSV recommendation (GSV = German Quality Protection Association for Concrete Formwork) “Concrete surfaces with special appearance requirements”, (June 2005) and “Quality standards for rental formwork”