Construction World March 2019

BAUMA PREVIEW

The Doka team with their global practical experience and concrete findings supports customers in their projects all over the world.

Doka supports customers WITH INNOVATIVE AND DIGITAL SOLUTIONS Under the heading ‘Our contribution to increase productivity on the construction site’, the Doka Campus will be presenting the most recent products, services and innovations from the world of formwork on a 4 700 m² booth at Bauma 2019. In the open-air area north/west at the booth FN.420, is the location where visitors can experience all the new features and solutions of productivity increase in every aspect of formwork engineering.

B auma already breaks the first record three months before the official start on 8 April. More than 3 500 exhibitors from 55 countries have registered – almost 100 more exhibitors than in 2016 at the last show. The trade fair site in eastern Munich has expanded to 614 000 m 2 and the number of exhibition halls has increased to 18. The Umdasch Group is an umbrella organisation with three operational companies Doka, Umdasch Group Ventures and umdasch The Store Makers. Doka’s sister company Umdasch Group Ventures deals with future trends and new technologies in the construction field and focuses exclusively on the development of groundbreaking potentially disruptive innovations. In 2019, the Umdasch Group’s innovation hub will present three new solutions: Contour Crafting (3D printing in construction), Neulandt (mobile precasting plant primarily for affordable housing) and Contakt (jobsite digitisation). Form-on is a Doka subsidiary that supplies worldwide new and used formwork components. Form-on has two divisions, the first is the COMPONENTS division, which supplies the dealers and formwork manufacturers with brand-new formwork components

such as sheets, beams, props and plywood. The second division is USED, which buys and sells a variety of quality of used formwork of different manufacturers. The Doka Campus conception is a meeting place, oriented toward dialogue and communication with the fair visitors. The bauma tradeshow is the unique opportunity of presenting Doka world with all its aspects and, most importantly of all, of displaying Doka’s contribution to productivity on construction site, including products, services and digital solutions. As it was at bauma 2016, live product demonstrations with the current world champions and vice world champions in concrete construction (WorldSkills 2017) will be among the special highlights this year. What is new here is that the DokaXlight formwork system will be used in this year's performance. The two-level Engineering Tower of 16 metres high will be a presentative of Doka’s engineering competence. Visitors will be able to use Virtual Reality (VR) to experience difference scenarios and follow presentations focusing separately on the highrise, infrastructure and energy sectors of construction. The engineering experts will be available to discuss the specifics of each sector.

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