DORCE Prefabricated Building & Construction Industry Trade INC., founded in 1989 and ranked 212th on the 2013 ENR Top International Contractors List, is a Turkish general contractor with vast worldwide experience, which provides engineering, procurement and construction services for projects requiring high-quality services in extreme environments.
DORCE stands out with its ability to quickly mobilize and operate in harsh and extreme conditions in several countries at the same time.
DORCE owns one of the largest prefabricated steel structure manufacturing facilities in the world. The manufacturing facility, located in Ankara, Turkey, has 100,000m² total area (55,000m² workshop area) with manufacturing capacity of:
- 160,000m² panelised prefabricated building production / month or
- 3,600 modular units (accommodation containers) / month or
- 1,900t production of heavy industrial steel buildings / month
Military bases and camp projects
Since 2000 DORCE has successfully completed more than 155,000m² for military bases. DORCE has also completed many camp projects, housing complexes, and vehicle inspections stations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DORCE Inc. is registered in Iraq and DORCE Iraq is one of the most active of the 15 branch offices of DORCE around the world, with major projects worth more than $500m, and around 2,000 employees in Iraq. DORCE Iraq endeavours to maximize local content by the use of local employees, sub-contractors and suppliers.
DORCE Inc. employs 2,675 people with 240 white collars – engineer and administrative and 2,435 blue collars – workers for its on-going projects. For new-coming projects the total number of employees will be increased.
General contracting projects
DORCE provides EPC solutions with the capability of manufacturing steel prefabricated buildings and providing the following infrastructure works: housing and residence units, schools and nurseries, hotels and holiday villages, university campus buildings, industrial buildings, factory buildings, business centre and shopping malls, hospitals, prisons, aircraft hangars, and sporting halls. Services include:
- Architectural and engineering design
- Site survey
- Building supply
- Infrastructure works and utilities (site preparation, ground and foundation works, site connection ways and parking areas, site electrical and mechanical installation works, water treatment systems, fire detection, fighting and controlling systems, generators, waste water and clean water tanks, landscaping, security fencing)
- HVAC systems
- Furnishing
- Transportation
- Assembling and dismantling
- Operation and maintenance
Pre-assembled (panelized) steel buildings
DORCE can supply pre-assembled steel buildings to suit your requirements. These are often employed in turnkey camp projects or turnkey social facilities.
Turnkey camp projects: worker residential cities, worker / labour camps, military camps, refugee camps, emergency accommodation camps (including offices, dormitories, dining halls and kitchens, WC-shower units, laundries).
Turnkey social facilities: housing and residence units, hotels and holiday villages, schools and nurseries, student dormitory buildings, hospitals and clinics, office and management buildings, police stations and prisons, sporting halls, GSM shelters.
Modular units (containerized) and GSM shelters
DORCE can also provide modular units, and is often engaged to supply these products to the following types of sites:
Turnkey camp projects: worker residential cities, worker / labour camps, military camps, refugee camps, emergency accommodation camps (including offices, dormitories, dining halls and kitchens, WC-shower units, laundries).
Turnkey social facilities: housing and residence units, hotels and holiday villages, schools and nurseries, student dormitory buildings, hospitals and clinics, office and management buildings, police stations and prisons, sporting halls, GSM shelters.
Pre-engineered steel construction buildings
Pre-engineered steel construction buildings are a popular option in the design and build of turnkey industrial facilities, including industry buildings, factory buildings, aircraft hangars, gymnasiums, workshops, warehouses, cold rooms, and garages.
Mobile military hospitals
DORCE is involved in the first mobile surgical hospital and mobile first aid station in Turkey to be used by Turkish Armed Forces during war and peace, as per the contract signed with T.R. Ministry of Defense under secretariat for defence industries. The client is GAMA Industrial Plants Manufacturing and Erection, Inc.
The mobile hospital project consists of two facilities – a surgical field hospital and a mobile first aid station. The structure is made from aluminum and steel containers and inflatable tents. All the units of the system are transported by tactical wheeled vehicles, which are also supplied within the scope of the project.
Emergency accommodation shelters
DORCE buildings are designed with local area conditions in mind, such as temperature, humidity, seismic, snow-wind loads, etc. DORCE has completed over a million square meters of project in total, through four different continents bordered by three oceans, and has become a respected and well-known company all around the world.
Desert area: DORCE has completed various projects at desert locations such as Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Iran and Libya.
Snowy area: DORCE has completed various projects in cold and freezing weather conditions in snowy locations with far and inaccessible roads such as Turkey, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Tropic: DORCE has completed various projects in warm, humid and muggy weather conditions such as Congo, Equator Guinea and Nigeria.
Salty, high corrosion and humid (offshore): DORCE has completed various projects for major oil companies offshore areas such as Turkmenistan and Russia.
Rocky: DORCE has transported and delivered materials to remote locations of Turkey, Kazakhstan and Russia by using inaccessible roads with very bad weather conditions. DORCE also provided an erection team to assemble demountable units in -35 to -40 degree cold weather.