2022: RORO evolving greenhouse foundations into the future

Being comfortable adapting to new or different technology is necessary for foundation companies and really for any businesses who are focused on faster deliveries and adapting to the evolving needs of clients, safety regulations and quality standards - in many cases, new technology is also better for sustainability, leaving smaller environmental footprints.

In 2022, RORO has been busy of adapting to changing needs of our global partners. An industry standard for generations, the use of wood framing in the construction of foundation walls is today an nearly-outdated practise. Meters and meters of wood is used in the fabrication of frames which in many cases is immediately discarded, causing immense waste of an important natural resource that cannot be reused.

Without extreme care and expertise, wood framing can often result in less-straight walls due to the flexibility and pliability of the material. Building this type of frame can also be time-consuming when you want to ensure a high quality- adding weeks to projects that could be competed subtsatinstally faster, and more robust.

Evolving to more efficient technology, in 2022, RORO has added Doka formwork products to our provided services.

Doka products have been used in building for decades as a standard across the world in the construction of everything from bridges, hospitals, airports to skyscrapers and mines - adapted for their ability to be extremely accurate, cost-efficient and the most durable, while also complying with the most stringent requirements in terms of safety, quality and environment standards. Slowly, they are being introduced into the greenhouse world as they can provide numerous benefits:

Benefits of Doka Systems:

Safety -Safer ver­ti­cal ac­cess with integrated lad­der sys­tems

-Work­place safe­ty on all sides with integrated pour­ing platform

-Smart accessories make for safe, easy han­dling of the formwork

-Ex­ten­sive safe­ty and work­place accessories such as plumb­ing accessories, work­ing plat­forms and self-align­ing pan­el con­nec­tors

Quality -Superior clean and smooth con­crete fin­ish

-Robust, co-or­d­i­nat­ed pan­el for­mats result in neat joint pat­terns that are more durable and more attractive

-Small­er num­ber of (ex­pen­sive) clo­sure zones, due to the con­sis­tent 15 cm in­cre­ment grid

Environment

-Long lifes­pan achieved by qual­i­ty hot-dip gal­vanised steel frames

-Higher num­bers of re­peat high num­bers of re­peat us­es made pos­si­ble by its ex­cel­lent man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­i­ty

Client Savings

-Savings passed to client as projects completed substantially faster due to self-align­ing pan­el con­nec­tors (mean that no ex­tra stif­f­en­ing re­in­force­ments are re­quired

-Neat neg­a­tive frame-im­prints in the con­crete min­imise fin­ish­ing-work as walls are automatically smoother, more accurate and more durable

Adopting new technology involves time, effort, and expertise from global experience. By working in numerous countries, we have been fortunate to be introduced and exposed to innovation-leading companies like Doka and we are excited to bring this quality product to greenhouse foundations, retaining walls and loading docks across the globe.