Timeline

Successful Reorientation

2010

  • DC Airports Ltd. and Hoffmann Röder Ltd. are merged into the subcompany DC Water & Environment. In connection to that its name was changed into Dorsch International Consultants Ltd.
  • Dorsch Holding DC Abu Dhabi gets the project order for the urban expansion plan Al Ghadeer
  • Opening of the first branch office in Saudi Arabia
  • Dorsch Group is publishing the first Arabic-German issue of "Planen und Bauen" in collaboration with the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2008

Establishment of a branch network in the United Arab Emirates driven by the regional headquarters Abu Dhabi

2007

Extension of the DC Asia Branch in Jakarta/Indonesia driven by the regional headquarters Bangkok

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

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.Ausbau des Niederlassungsnetzes der DC Asia in Jakarta/Indonesien

Expansion of activities

2000

  • Acquisition of 100% of the shares of wpm Projektmanagement GmbH, Stutttgart
  • Foundation of Dorsch Consult (india) Private Ltd., Mumbai, India

1997

  • The Dorsch Consult Group became member of the renamed Groupe EGIS
  • Acquisition of 80% of the shares of airplan GmbH, Stuttgart

1996

German-French Cooperation in European Consultancy Engineering Dorsch Consult and SCETAUROUTE S.A. conclude an agreement to megre their interests

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

1991

Foundation of DCT Dorsch Consult (Thailand) Co. Ltd.

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

Large-Scale Foreign Projects

1987

Foundation of Dorsch Consult Abu Dhabi, UAE

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

1977

Top-priority wastewater disposal and treatment scheme in industrial zone of Helwan near Cairo in Egypt

1974

Large-scale contracts in the Middle East

Urban Infrastructure Projects

1970

  • Dorsch Consult GmbH, limited liability company under German law, now 100% under the ownership of the Dorsch family
  • 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

World Bank Projects

1958

Advisory services and engineering design for the World Bank in Japan, Spain, Venezuela, Jamaica, Brazil, Chile and Somalia

Pipeline and Industrial Engineering

1957

The company's first contacts for the oil and gas industry in Germany

Entry into the International Market

1956

Commencement of the company's foreign activities in the Middle East

Foundation

1951

Foundation of Dorsch Consult consulting engineering company in Wiesbaden, Germany