Doka has taken the next step in its successful internationalisation drive by establishing a wholly-owned branch operation in Australia.

The Saudi government is currently working toward completion of the 160-hectare King Abdullah Financial District. The CMA Tower soars 400 metres high, and along with SKE100 automatic climbing formwork, Staxo 40 load-bearing towers are being used on the build, debuting in Saudi Arabia on projects of this magnitude. The construction crews are using the fully planked levels of the framed formwork for access, so people working or moving on the scaffolding and underneath the superstructure do so quickly and in safety.

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’.

Slovak students use Doka products to build symbolic bridge for UNICEF aid project ‘Schools for Africa’.

Doka Canada has won the vaunted ACI 2011 Award of Excellence in Concrete. The American Concrete Institute (ACI) awards the prize annually for outstanding achievement.

Five Doka composite forming carriages are in action on the Valtellina Viaduct in northern Italy. The main contract section of the new Morbegno to Stelvio bypass is 3850 m long. The Valtellina Viaduct comprises a steel superstructure on which the Doka carriages are casting a total of 160 slab segments. The project commenced in December 2009 and is scheduled for completion by April 2012. With its suspended finishing-work platform levels, the Doka composite forming carriage provides a very high standard of safety.

The efficient way of forming cantilevers without ground support – that’s ParaTop, the recently developed bridge formwork system from Doka.

Soccer reigned supreme on September 03, 2011: the event was the UMDASCH-DOKA Champions League, the venue the SKU Ertl Glas Stadium in Amstetten, Austria.

A capacity build-out project on the AVE high-speed rail line between Madrid and Valencia is due to be completed in three months’ time. As part of this project, Doka España was appointed by the responsible subcontractor Tecozam to supply the formwork for building a 1079 m long viaduct. Doka’s Load-bearing tower Staxo 100 system allowed work to move ahead fast here, yet with the utmost in safety.

The new city Oyala is an ambitious government project in the jungle, about 120 km south-east of the port city of Bata. Currently there are only three urban bridges and some unfinished roads. This new cable-stayed bridge will be the first link to the outside world.