Doka Group, a key supplier of formwork and engineering solutions to infrastructure projects, said its Middle East unit has won the AHK Innovation Award at the German Emirati Business Awards 2015 held in Dubai, UAE.

Doka Middle East won the awards for their real-time, concrete strength-measuring device Concremote, said a statement from the Austria-based company.

Held for the first time in the Middle East, the awards acknowledge outstanding performance amongst German Emirati companies across six categories including, corporate social responsibility, education, innovation, technology, production and start-ups.

AHK chief executive Dr Peter Goepfrich said: "We are proud to be honouring best achieving companies in the UAE and Germany. The awards come as a natural step in our efforts to bring the business communities together and highlight exceptional efforts exerted by these companies especially in what enriches the relationship between the UAE and Germany."

AHK, he stated, undertakes to make the awards an annual highlight in the business calendar, assuring that outstanding performance is always recognized and rewarded.

Honoured only a few months earlier in the same category, at the Big Project ME Awards, Doka once again emerged victorious at the German Emirati Business Awards 2015.

The company picked up the ‘Excellence in Building Technology 2014’ award specifically for their ‘Concremote’ system.

‘Concremote’, which was introduced to the market in early 2014, enables greater quality control and cost efficiency by providing real-time information about the concrete via a concrete maturity sensor system, helping to reduce cycle times and commissioning quantities by accurately informing about the optimal time to remove formwork.

On the award win, Doka Middle East regional director Peter Vogel said: "It feels very good to see our product Concremote being recognised for the value it adds to construction operations."

"The Doka Group constantly invests their professional competence and experience in innovations that are economical for construction processes and set a new benchmark in construction safety and speed," he added.

Doka is currently working on a number of projects in the Middle East including the Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Tower Dubai’s Marina 106 and Abu Dhabi’s Midfield project.-TradeArabia News Service