Tensinews

We are seeking an experienced Tensile Structural Engineer to join our Design Department where we design modular and custom structures, which are a combination of tensile membrane structures and classical structural elements.

The candidate should be a qualified engineer with a proven track record in the turnkey design and delivery of tensile structure projects. As we provide turnkey solutions, the successful candidate will be required to undertake and manage structural design from the conceptual phase through to detailing, QC and handover. (Ie. assumes engineering responsibility for our scope of works). Remote work is possible. In which case, to optimize engagement with our Cape Town based production design team, the candidate should be either UK or European based and English fluent. For more information regarding the role and remuneration package, please contact Brendan at brendan@tenthousestructures.com.

https://tenthousestructures.com/

High-tech textiles for innovative applications

Mehler Texnologies has been supplying technical textiles to the Italian market for four decades. What began in 1982 with sun protection products has evolved into a broad portfolio of technically coated textiles for a wide variety of innovative applications. In the early 1980s, the specialist for technical textiles started out by captivating the Italian camping sector: The lightweight textiles with their acrylic coating were ideal for use as awnings to protect against the sun. Even today, products from the VALMEX® and AIRTEX® ranges still rank among the trailblazers in the nautical, camping and sun protection market. Meanwhile, textiles, tarpaulins and membranes from Mehler Texnologies are to be found in many different areas: Stadium roofs, façade cladding, yacht equipment or industrial solutions – the high-tech textiles are extremely versatile and lend themselves equally well to creative design or industrial applications. The base fabrics are produced in the company’s own weaving mills in Europe and can be individually coated to optimally suit customers’ requirements. The result: Flexible solutions that will ensure many years of use and withstand extreme conditions. One of the most challenging – and unique – projects in recent years was the 2015 World Expo in Milan, when the company was commissioned to supply the 70.000m² of membrane to cover the Decumano and Cardo, the two main axes of the exhibition site. Looking to the future, Mehler Texnologies is focusing on investments in further markets and systematic growth in Italy. Sustainability is a further focus. Mehler Texnologies is pursuing swift certification to ISO 14001, the standard that provides a systematic framework for integrating binding environmental targets and processes.

At the WORLD EXPO Milano in 2015, the roofing of the main walkways had been made of the membrane VALMEX® FR 1200 MEHATOP® F Type III by Mehler Texnologies. (Photo: TAIYO EUROPE)

www.freudenberg-pm.com

TENSINANTES2023

The TensiNet Symposium 2023 "Membrane architecture: the seventh established building material. Designing reliable and sustainable structures for the urban environment" will be held at Nantes Université (France) from 7th till 9th June 2023.

TENSINANTES2023 focuses on the significance and potential of fabrics and foils as established building materials and promotes the use of tensile structures in a world of constant change and adaptation. The optimal use of materials, the realisation of a Eurocode, sustainability and reuse are some of the topics that will be covered, ranging from research over practical experiences to realisations. The diversity and complementarity within the TensiNet community: suppliers, manufacturers, installers, engineers, architects, researchers & academics, inspired and fed the idea of putting together duos of speakers who will give keynote lectures around the 3 main themes:

Structural membrane: contemporary, innovative, adaptive daring and impactful solutions In Jules Verne's hometown, with its focus on innovation and futuristic issues, membrane architecture can provide answers to current problems, especially for ever denser cities and for a world that is always on the move.

Tensioned membrane structures: the seventh building material Recent advances in the design of membrane structures, development of a Eurocode dedicated to structural membranes: the word membrane must now be part of the daily vocabulary of architects, designers and decision-makers, and the specificities of membrane design must be part of the knowledge of all structural engineers.

Structural membrane: an answer to issues of the 21st century Lightweight design, well-being, environmental impact, energy and acoustic performance, life cycle of materials and structures, end of life of membrane structures: these keywords are part of the current and future construction challenges and are an important message for the younger generations.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS confirmed. The lectures will be listed in detail soon (title of paper and author(s)).
Bruce Danziger - Danziger Engineering Collaborative, Inc. (Los Angeles, US)
Carol Monticelli - Polytechnic of Milan (Milan, Italy)
Karsten Moritz – IMS Bauhaus® Archineer® Institutes e.V. (Dessau, Germany)
Louis Ratajczak - DVVD (Paris, France)
Ramon Sastre - Universitat Politècnica Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
Jean-Christophe Thomas - Nantes Université (Nantes, France)
Rosemarie Wagner - Building technology Faculty of Architecture KIT – (Karlsruhe, Germany)

Grégoire Zündel - Atelier Zündel Cristea (Paris, France)

Programme

Textile Roofs 2022

The 25th International Anniversary Workshop on the Design and Practical Realization of Architectural Membrane Structures will be finally held in 2022!

Virtual participation will be possible as the morning sessions and selected program items during the afternoons will be available live as well as online.

One of the most important goals of Textile Roofs is

* to invite the worldwide community of membrane architecture to Berlin and to discuss Amazing Projects, Smart Technologies, High end Machinery, Intelligent Materials and Fast Software Solutions on site and to work on them and with them together in many interactive formats. 

* to enable an informal exchange of experiences and opinions, personal encounters and a cheerful togetherness

See the link to the program

Please find the latest TensiNewsflash December 2021

Topics: Call for contributions TensiNews 42, ABS 2021, Symposium 2023 & WGs

The TensiNet Association was well represented at Advanced Building Skins 2021 with the very nice lightweight booth, the TensiNet & Friends Meeting and two sessions: Skins from fabrics and foils & Building Membrane Cladding Systems

Link TensiNet & Friends presentation

The TensiNet Association will be present at ABS 2022:

Session - Architectural Membranes for High-performance Building Skins Chair Marijke Mollaert

• Fabric façades from recycled PET bottles - Katja Bernert, Mehler Texnologies
• Special grades of ETFE film for unique projects - Ben Runhaar, AGC Chemicals Europe
• Prediction of rain noise in large halls covered by structural skins - Monika Rychtarikova, KULeuven
• Transparent ETFE cushion roof - Fridolin Mall, formTL
• Moveable structures as 5th skin - Christoph Paech, schlaich bergermann partner
• The long way to 1000m³ ETFE-Cloud - Thomas Toepfer, se cover

Session - Building a Sustainable World Chair Carl Maywald

• Membrane structures and embodied carbon reduction - Marijke Mollaert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• How can teaching influence the understanding of sustainable construction? - Heidrun Bögner-Balz, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences

Session - Life Safety and Fire Prevention in Façades Chair Zomraude Chantal Chalouhi

• Classification of façade structures regarding fire safety - Carl Maywald, Vector Foiltec
• Non-combustible vertical façade membranes - Allan Hurdle, Serge Ferrari

The XI edition of the conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures (STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES 2023) will be organised on 02-04 October 2023 in Valencia. The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, in conjunction with the conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International Association for Shell and Space Structures (IASS)), Stuttgart (2005, 2009) and Munich (2013, 2017). The last edition of the Structural Membranes conference as virtual event on September 13-14, 2021.

The objectives of Structural Membranes 2023 are to collect and disseminate state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. The conference will address both the theoretical bases for structural analysis and the numerical algorithms necessary for efficient and robust computer implementation. A significant part of the conference will be devoted to discuss advances in new textile composites for applications in membrane and inflatable structures in the building and construction sectors, as well as in innovative design, construction and maintenance procedures.

Structural Membranes 2023 aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable structures.

Innovation, Sustainability and Legacy conference, will be organised by the Beijing University of Technology, China Association for Spatial Structures and China Steel Construction Society in Beijing, China, on 19 – 23 September 2022.

Innovation, Sustainability and Legacy incorporates:

• the IASS Annual Symposium (IASS SYMPOSIUM 2022) and
• the 13th Asia-Pacific Conference on Spatial Structures (APCS 2022)

The theme of the symposium covers all aspects related to theory, analysis, design, material, construction, manufacture and maintenance. In particular, this Symposium is focused on the following topics:

Legacy of antiquity spatial structures

Reuse of refurbished facilities

Innovation in shell and spatial structures

Analysis

Design

Construction

Disaster mitigation

The Permanent Member Meeting will be organised during Advanced Buildiing Skins on Thursday 21.10.2021 from 18.45 till 19.15 (just after the TensiNet & Friends meeting).

Enjoy the latest TensiNews 41

TensiNews - Newsletter Nr. 41 - OCTOBER 2021 - Price 15€ (port incl.)

For non TensiNet members:

https://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNet_Publications/Tensinews%2041%201-4.pdf

For TensiNet members:

https://www.tensinet.com/index.php/tensinet-publications/new-tensinews