Timeline DC Asia

DC asia was founded 1991 as a German subsidiary company under the laws of Thailand.

Dorsch started its activities in Thailand in 1978 establishing the detailed design for an integrated mass transit system in Bangkok.

Twenty years later in 1997 Dorsch was again involved in the development of the preliminary design of the northern part of the blue line and again thirty years after our first job here, in 2006, DC asia was awarded the three lines extension project for orange blue and purple line as part of the BMTD consortium.

In the 1980’s Dorsch together with Linde AG designed the first gas separation plant for PTT in Rayong, Thailand. This was the start for a series of oil and gas projects on the eastern seaboard to include the loading and unloading facilities for the National Petrochemical Corporation at Map Ta Phut Port, crude oil / product pipelines and terminals for PTT.

In 1996 DC asia together with Nova Gas from Canada finished the design of the 240 km Yadana gas pipeline from Myanmar to Thailand Ratchburi for PTT. Presently DC asia is involved in the design, tender and supervision for the Songklah transmission pipeline in the South of Thailand.

In the water / wastewater sector DC asia started its activities 1988 with the village development project financed by KfW. In 1998 DC asia reviewed the design of one of the biggest treatment plants in Bangkok including a 15 km sewer network.

In Indonesia Dorsch had already an established office in 1977. Since that time Dorsch has worked continuously on projects financed by IBRD, ADB, KfW and GTZ loans or grants for the Directorate General of Bina Marga / Ministry of Public Works and Directorate General of Land Transport / Ministry of Communications in the transportation sector and for Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI) in the telecommunication sector.

Timeline Dorsch Group

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