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Chronicle


Foundation
1951 Foundation of Dorsch Consult consulting engineering company in Wiesbaden, Germany

Entry into the International Market
1956 Commencement of the company's foreign activities in the Middle East

Pipeline and Industrial Engineering
1957 The company's first contacts for the oil and gas industry in Germany

World Bank Projects
1958 Advisory services and engineering design for the World Bank in Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Jamaica, Brazil, Chile and Somalia
1970 Dorsch Consult GmbH, limited liability company under German law, now 100% under the ownership of the Dorsch family

Urban Infrastructure Projects
1970 Execution of urban transport plans and design of underground railway and mass rapid transit sections. Development of own simlation program for the precise calculation of the flow conditions in sewerage systems during extreme rainfall event

Large-Scale Foreign Projects
1974 Large-scale contracts in the Middle East

In Algeria Dorsch Consult set up a joint consulting enterprise (S.A.E.T.I.) together with a state development bank with the aim of training local engineers and technicians in the design and contruction supervision of civil engineering schems
1977 Top-priority wastewater disposal and treatment scheme in industrial zone of Helwan near Cairo in Egypt
1980 International Airport Munich 2
  German Antarctic Research Station
  Cocoa-processing factory in State of Ondo / Nigeria
  Hijaz Railway Line from Damascus / Syria to Medina / Saudi Arabia via Amman / Jordan
  Gas Terminal in Thailand
  Baghdad Metro in Iraq
  Thorium High Temperature Reactor (THTR 300) in Germany
  Han River in P.R. China
1987 Foundation of Dorsch Consult Abu Dhabi, UAE

Reunification, upswing in business in the east
1990 Altogether 6 subisidiary companies were established in the 5 new federal states of Germany
  Long-distance natural gas pipelines MIDAL and STEGAL with Rehden underground gas storage reservoir
  Housing programme in the States

Intensification of engagement in South-East Asia
1991 Foundation of DCT Dorsch Consult (Thailand) Co. Ltd.

Expansion of activities
1994 Operations Management Support to Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ)
  Foundation of Dorsch Consult OST GmbH, Leipzig, to unite the 6 East Germany DC companies under one parent company
1996 German-French Cooperation in European Consultancy Engineering Dorsch Consult and SCETAUROUTE S.A. conclude an agreement to megre their interests
1997 The Dorsch Consult Group became member of the renamed Groupe EGIS
  Acquisition of 80% of the shares of airplan GmbH, Stuttgart
2000 Acquisition of 100% of the shares of wpm Projektmanagement GmbH, Stutttgart
  Foundation of Dorsch Consult (india) Private Ltd., Mumbai, India
2005 Jürgen Röder und Olaf Hoffmann have acquired 100 percent of the shares of Dorsch Consult from the French corporate group Groupe Egis S.A. on September 2, 2005. Foundation of the Dorsch Gruppe.
2006

Foundation of the Dorsch Gruppe

  • Complementary shareholdings have been pooled to one strategic force
  • Further developments of international activities and implementation of new services
  • Establishment of a branch network in India driven by the regional headquarters in Mumbai
2007
Extension of the DC Asia Branch in Jakarta/Indonesia driven by the regional headquarters Bangkok
2008
Establishment of a branch network in the United Arab Emirates driven by the regional headquarters Abu Dhabi
 

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