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5th Working Group Meeting in comination with the trade fair and symposium "TECHTEXTIL".

The partners of TensiNet will give 8 lectures during the morning of firsty day of the WG Meeting.
The second day is fully dedicated to the Working Groups.

Steering Committee Meeting of TensiNet

AGENDA (10.00h - 18.00h in Brussels, VUB)

10.00h WELCOME
10.15h 1) Discussion on the Design Guide: main responsible editor(s), main responsible person for each chapter, progress in time with regard to deadlines
11.30h 2) Introduction on IP (integrated project) in 6th Framework Programme
12.00h 3) Presentation of basic requirements, financing possibilities and chances of an IP (Mrs. Cristina Marolda, project officer of TensiNet)
13.00h LUNCH
14.30h 4) Discussion on a proposal for an IP
16.00h 5) Budget redistribution
17.00h 6) TensiNet database: intellectual property rights, promoting data entry, procedure for non-partners
18.00h END



PARTICIPANTS (TSC)

- Marijke Mollaert (Coordinator)
- Juergen Haase (Administr. Coordinator)
- John Chilton (Scientific Coordinator)
- Michael Barnes (WG ENG Coordinator)
- Rainer Blum (Quality Coordinator)
- Erik Moncrieff (Assistant Coordinator)
- Johan Vyncke (Dissemination Coordinator)
- Cristina Marolda (EC-Project Officer)

Apologized: Guy Nemoz (WG MAT Coordinator)

WORKING GROUP MEETING III
2-day-event in Madrid:

PLACE

Polytechnical University of Madrid
Department Architecture
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura
Avda. Juan de Herrera, 4
28040 MADRID (Ciudad Universitaria)

Meeting point: We will meet all together to start and end the meetings, at the \"SALA DE GRADOS C\" which is located in the first floor of the \"PABELLON NUEVO\" closed to the office of Prof. Juan Monjo.

AGENDA

Monday, 15th of April 2002
09.00 Welcome
09.15 Introduction
11.00 Working Groups
13.00 Lunch
15.00 Working Groups
18.00 End

Tuesday, 16th of April 2002
09.00 Working Groups
13.00 Lunch
15.00 Working Groups
16.30 Plenary Session
18.00 End

Elaboration of the Design Guide:
Architectural and Engineering Detailing and Connections of Tensile Structures

1st Day (5 September, Thursday)
10.45 Welcome
11.00 Discussion on basic principle details (Classification of Masterdetails) and examples
13.30 Walking Lunch
15.00 Preparation of descriptions on principle details from architectural or engineering point of view
19.00 Dinner

2nd Day (6 September, Friday)
9.00 Continuation of Day 1
13.00 Walking Lunch
15.00 Final Discussion
16.00 End

Participants:
Prof. Llorenz (School of Architecture, Barcelona)
Marc Malinowsky (Groupe Alto)
Rudi Scheuermann (Ove Arup)
Brian Forster (Ove Arup)
Erik Moncrieff (technet)
Rainer Blum (Labor Blum)
Heidrun Boegner (Labor Blum)
Rogier Houtman (Tentech)
Stev Bringmann (SL-Rasch)
Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
Juergen Haase (VUB)

Language

The website is in German, but the presentations will be held either in English or in German.

Fluoropolymers in Architecture, Building, Construction and Design.

First Working Group Meeting of TensiNet.

AGENDA

09.30 Welcome
10.00 Discussion in each WG about the prepared working documents
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Discussion in each WG on the 'Design Guide'
16.00 Presentation of results / summary of each WG
18.00 End


Also we want to clarify the information required for this event:

1 TECHNET (Dieter Stroebel) and ESI (Eberhard Haug):
Detailed description of basic theories to analyze membrane structures and their application possibilities!

2 WG- and QUALITY - CO-ORDINATOR (Michael Barnes, Bodo Rasch, Guy Nemoz, Rainer Blum)
Preparing a list of topics / sections and subsections that should be included in the design guide!

3 ECCREDI (Johan Vyncke) and TECHTEXTIL (Michael Jaenecke / Barbara Weizsaecker)
Analyzing the target groups (Annex 1 'Description of Work', p.56) and their potential and working out methods to reach these groups!
Furthermore collect email-addresses of possibly interested people or organisations!

4 ALL OTHERS
Please, fill in the data sheet for 2 example projects.
This data sheet is a draft version and cannot certainly consider all possible inputs. Feel absolutely free by adding or changing items. The easiest way to complete this form is the EXCEL program due to possible adjustments. Consider only these items where information is available.

First meeting of all partners

The Second Latin American Symposium on Tension Structures

At Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela to be held 4-6 of May 2005.

SAIESPRING CORE EXHIBIT:
Building Know-how - Innovation in Envelope Technologies

An exhibition devoted to architectural expertise through the use of innovative materials and solutions in the Services Centre

Techtextil Frankfurt is the leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens.

International Exhibition & Conference on Roofing, Cladding & Allied Products; 7th edition in the "ROOF" series of exhibitions.

Exhibit Profile: Roofing Systems, Architectural Cladding, Façade Engineering, Metal Building Systems, Pre-Engineered Buildings, Spaceframe Structures, Waterproofing, Insulation, Tensile Membranes, Roofing Machinery and much more.

Organised by : Unitech Exhibitions Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India

Phone: 0091-44-24543322 / 23
Fax: 0091-44-24543321
Contact Person: Mr. V B Sudeep, Project Director