The fastest and safe assembly is possible which saves lot of time due to logical and easy assembly sequences, horizontal assembly which guarantees ultimate speed and safety and quick erection and repositioning via crane.

Doka has recently launched d3 load bearing tower – the high capacity and high speed shoring system. Suitable for applications in building construction as well as civil and industrial construction like car parks, schools, shopping centres, double height or transfer slab, stair tower, bridges, tunnels, power station, warehouses,” says Shreeniwas Kelkar, Product Manager, Doka India Pvt Ltd.

Positive impacts
Talking about the positive impacts of d3 load bearing tower, Kelkar says, “The fastest and safe assembly is possible which saves lot of time due to logical and easy assembly sequences, horizontal assembly which guarantees ultimate speed and safety and quick erection and repositioning via crane. Perfect adjustment in widths, unlike other shoring system as the use of firmly connected diagonals crosses.

d3 load bearing tower is easy and fast repositioning that save labour and time for shifting and repositioning. It is not required to dismantle and reassembled the shoring towers for repositioning and manual reposition is possible with the help of wheels. Height can be adjusted as hot dip galvanised frames are available in 0.9 m 1.2 m and 1.8 m height. Height adjustment is possible to the last millimetre.

Incorporating technology
Doka is offering customised solution for any high rise building. It has launched new products especially for infrastructure projects load-bearing tower d3 – the high-capacity, high-speed shoring system.

Latest innovation
Huge increase in high rise structures and good growth in infrastructure projects such as airports, highways, power, is imperative for the project owners and investors to complete the projects ahead or on time to generate revenues. The modernisation and mechanisation taking place in these projects has a vital role to play to achieve speed, increase productivity and utilise economy of scale in bringing down the unit cost to meet the rising demand. One of the key factor formwork, has to face the challenges for the completion of fast track projects. By going in for a system or engineered formwork, substantial savings are possible by faster return on investments.

Emerging trends witness in industry is modern modular formwork systems being designed with features that facilitate, accelerated and economical construction workflows in monolithic construction projects. For instance, the Doka OneGo aluminium formwork system is compact and lightweight enough to need only a few form-tie points and floor props. It has synchronised forming and stripping processes, integrated stripping aids such as a stripping head for floor-slab formwork and chamfered panel joints. The formwork can be reused immediately. It adapts to the varied ground plan shapes.

Couple of years back Doka launched Frami Xlife, which is a panel formwork system, easy to handle and with high number of repetitions. “We received a tremendous response to this system due to several factors, like firstly, the skilled man power is scarcely available at the sites, as most of the formwork gangs are from regions like Odhisa, West Bengal, where they are now able to find job opportunities in their own regions with sufficient pay wages, secondly the cycle time is also very less for panel formwork compared to traditional one and thirdly, if these formworks are used for several times, they turns out to be a economical, better and safer option. We believe, there is much more to be captured in the panel formwork segment and will be launching some new light weight products in the same segment soon for horizontal slab structures,” concludes Kelkar.