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As proposed during our latest Partner Meeting the upcoming Partner Meeting 1/2018 and several WG meetings will be held at Dekra (Stuttgart) on Thursday 1^st March.

UPDATE

Wednesday 28th February

20.00  Dinner at Alte Kanzlei, Schillerplatz 5A, 70173 Stuttgart www.alte-kanzlei-stuttgart.de

Thursday 1st March

09.00 – 09.30 Arrival, coffee

09.30 – 10.00 Welcome

10.00 – 10.30 Partner meeting

10.30 – 11.30 WG Sustainability & Comfort

11.30 - 12.30 WG Pneumatic Structures

12.30 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 WG Eurocode

14.30 – 16.00 WG Good practice

16.00 Guided tours: analytical lab and lab for technical textiles and films

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a comprehensive, internationally-harmonized report that documents the ways in which a product, throughout its lifecycle, affects the environment.

As the global leader in strong long-lasting architectural membranes, SHEERFILL has always been committed to working towards sustainability. As a result of our commitment, SHEERFILL is the only PTFE coated architectural membrane that is Energy Star and Cool Roof Rated.

“Our company is committed to producing materials that meet the highest levels of both performance and sustainability. The release of this document allows us to be transparent with SHEERFILL users and project owners about the products they are using so that they, too, can reach their sustainability and quality goals,” Michael Lussier, Global Market Leader for SHEERFILL said.

Time and time again, real-life use has shown that SHEERFILL Architectural Membrane provides up to 25 years or more of reliable service. The first installation of SHEERFILL II has been in continuous use, since 1973, at the University of La Verne.

SHEERFILL II is manufactured by Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest building materials company.

See http://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNewsflash/TensiNewsflash%20September%202017.pdf

This year the 14th edition of the student competition “Textile Structures for New Building” took place. The competition received many entries. Most contributions were inspiring, looking at functionalities from a fresh perspective, re-interpreting, showing creativity, changing the scale, integrating light, sound, new ideas for processes or methodologies, or showing refined poetic finishing. It was a pleasure to go through the well documented projects, varying from aesthetic inflated halls or improved living spaces for refugee camps to adaptable lightweight skins or panels integrating bending active elements, creating soft furniture systems, knitting or weaving wet concrete, wrapping wet threads or steering a self-active façade system made of a flexible basalt tissue.

When evaluating the entries, the jury mainly took into account the following criteria: feasibility, qualitative use of textile materials, level of innovation, aesthetics, ecological quality, resource efficiency, functionality and economic quality.

http://www.tensinet.com/files/Techtextil_Competitions/2017%20STW%20Broschuere%20FINAL.pdf

TensiNews - Newsletter Nr. 33 - SEPTEMBER 2017 -  Price 15€ (port incl)

http://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNet_Publications/Tensinews%2033%20-%20autum%202017%20LR%20p1-4.pdf

The Annual general meeting & Partner meeting (2/2017) will be held during Structural Membranes at room 2770, located 2nd floor of TUM main building

Aachen, Dresden and Denkendorf, together, are forming the 'textile triangle' of the future

Boasting over 600 participants most recently, this conference counts as one of the most important textile conferences in Europe. Starting in 2016, the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research, Denkendorf (DITF) are now also a co-organizer. Thus, the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference will take place on a yearly alternating basis at one of the three sites. Parallel to the International Textile Conference, the organizers respectively launch the German Textile Colloquium as a national equivalent with changing special themes in the spring.

The aim of the Conference on Advanced Building Skins is to contribute to a multidisciplinary, integrated planning approach by architects, engineers, scientists, manufacturers and the building industry to reduce energy consumption of buildings. The annual international conference attracts 600 participants from over fifty countries. The Conference will be held at the Congress Center Kursaal in Bern, Switzerland, 2-3 October 2017.

The conference will be held in English and German languages.

The IASS 2017 committee invites professionals, PhD-candidates and students to participate at Pre-Workshops and Master Classes taking place between September 20th-24th, 2017, at HCU Hamburg (three to five days before the IASS conference).

Workshops and Master Classes will explore the role, design and critical reflection of computational design methods, design tool environments and fabrication techniques with special focus on simulation of complex geometries and structural systems. Master Classes (MC) address specialists and aim at the exchange of knowledge on an advanced level. In Workshops (WS) experience will be gained together and exchanged.

Both formats – MC and WS – explore specific structural types, the interlinking of material systems, as well as fabrication methods. The means are hands-on knowledge and tool-sharing. The approach can be based on software or hardware, creating digital and | or physical design studies and | or prototypes.

The results will be presented as part of a warm-up event on Sunday evening prior to the conference. We anticipate the Workshops will include 10 to 20 participants from industry, research as well as architectural and engineering study programs. Master Classes should include 8 to 15 participants from academia and industry.