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Safety systems reach new heights: as construction projects become increasingly ambitious the importance of on-site safety is becoming ever more critical, especially when working at height.(Construction)

THE AMBITIOUS CONSTRUCTION tasks being tackled nowadays present structural and formwork engineers with some very tough requirements indeed. In the building construction sector, height records are being ratcheted ever upwards, while in the bridge-building field, the spans are being extended to absolutely unprecedented dimensions. Using advanced Doka systems and the safety features that go with them, it is now possible to tackle in-situ concrete works which not too long ago would have been reckoned to be impossible--or at least extremely dangerous--to carry out.

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