Companies

Dokan dam

Dumez

Works underway on the Dokan dam in Iran (1954-1958)

Dokan dam was built between 1953 and 1958 in disastrous circumstances, which included a flood of the Tigris river, the Suez crisis, and revolution in Iraq. Yet Dumez successfully overcame all of these obstacles and delivered the structure, which is 116 metres high and 360 metres wide at the ridge, in 1958. The project was a source of considerable prestige for the company managed by the Chaufour brothers.