| Doka Dam formwork helps work to move ahead at top speed |
Doka dam formwork D 15 is being used to build the Ravedis Dam on the River Cellina in Northern Italy. Thanks to the high capacity of the brackets, casting can take place in large sections. All the brackets of the dam formwork are equipped with a main platform and a service platform, ensuring that work can be carried out at the very highest level of safety.
Contractors: Consorzio CO.RAV |
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| Precision forming assignment on cooling towers |
The very greatest precision is called
for in the forming assignment on the 6 cooling towers currently being built for Rosenergoatom’s nuclear power station in Kalinin, Russia. These 150 m tall cooling towers are being constructed in 96 circular sections using Doka automatic climbing formwork SK 175.
Contractors: Energowysotspezstroy |
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| New Doka falsework earns its colours on underground railway tunnel |
Formwork operations are going ahead articularly swiftly on the 660 m long section of tunnel that is currently being built as part of the extension of Munich’s U6 underground railway line at Garching, just outside Munich – using a forming carriage assembled from Doka’s new SL1 falsework.
Contractors: Alfred Kunz GmbH, Amberg, Germany |
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| "The Pearson", Chicago - being built in a 4-day cycle |
The typical storeys of the 37-storey residential high-rise building to be known as “The Pearson” are being formed in a 4 day cycle. Equipment in use on this site in Chicago includes automatic
climbing formwork for the shaft core, Alu-Framax for the columns, and special steel formwork with MF 240 climbing
platforms for the exterior façade. The concrete lifting tub is also raised on Doka automatic climbers.
Contractors: James Mc Hugh Construction, Chicago |
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| Cores poured in advance using climbing formwork |
Directly opposite St. Paul’s Cathedral, Juxon House has been built in one of London’s most prominent locations.
As well as the Doka Framax wall formwork and Framax column formwork used by contractors O’Rourke Civil
Engineering Ltd. on this site, Framax and climbing formwork MF 240 were also used for the building’s three lift and stairwell cores.
Contractors: O’Rourke Civil Engineering Ltd. |
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| Difficult shape - easy to form |
Both pleasing aesthetics and practical functionality find complete expression in the new Caminho Niemeyer Theatre in Rio de Janeiro. One of the very special architectural features of the structure is its wave-shaped roof. 400 t of loadbearing towers d2 ensure that this is safely shored. Contractors HSM are extremely satisfied with the delivery
services and associated services provided by Doka Brasil.
Contractors: HSM |
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Articles |
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Al Jaber Complex, Dubai |
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Editorial |
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Tower 2 at Munich Airport |
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Wandsworth Riverside Quarter, London |
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New Row Shopping Center, Telford |
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Phaeno Science Center, Wolfsburg |
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World site round up |
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Tower Palace III, Seoul, Korea |
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Bridge edge beams - quickly, safely and easily |
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Reichenbach Bridge, Thuringia, Germany |
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National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC |
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