Tensinews

Design Guide

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)

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

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)

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.

First Network Steering Committee Meeting of TensiNet:
Coordinator
Assistant Coordinator
Scientific Coordinator
Quality Coordinator
Dissemination Coordinator
3 WG Coordinators

2-day-event:

- 1st day: Working Group Meeting
- 2nd day: Plenary Meeting with scientific officer of the commission

LOCATION
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

MEETING POINT
Building KB, Conference Room MEMC

AGENDA

Thursday, 10 October 2002
10.30h Planning of activities of Techtextil 2003
11.00h Brief overview of the Working Groups
WG ENG (Mike Barnes)
WG ARCH (Marijke Mollaert)
WG MAT (Rainer Blum)
11.45h Discussion on Design Guide Chapters within the entire group,
Proposed Chapters: Detailing,
12.15h Material Approval Proposal by Rainer Blum
See: http://www.tensinet.com/documents/working/Approval_for_structural_membranes_proposal_TABLE.xls
and http://www.tensinet.com/documents/working/Approval_for_structural_membranes_proposal_TEXT.pdf
13.00h Lunch
14.30h - 18.00h Discussion in the Working Groups about the Design Guide
The working group coordinator is setting the internal agendas.
Afterwards: common dinner in the centre of Brussels.

Friday, 11 October 2002
09.00h Summary of the work done the day before, general Discussion
11.00h Welcome (The scientific officer of the Commission will attend this meeting.)
11.15h Activities in general, role of partners, management (Jürgen Haase)
12.00h Presentation of Working Groups
WG ENG (Mike Barnes)
WG ARCH (Marijke Mollaert)
WG MAT (Rainer Blum)
13.00h Lunch
14.30h Presentation of the database (Peter Stuer, VUB)
15.00h Main Achievements (John Chilton)
15.15h Exploitation and Dissemination (Johan Vyncke)
15.45h Future Plans (Marijke Mollaert)
16.00h Discussion


HOTEL INFORMATION

ibis Hotel
Grasmarkt 100
1000 Brussels
tel: +32 (0)2 514 40 40

Host: Technical University of Berlin
Represented by Lothar Gruendig


MAIN TOPIC

Discussion about the DESIGN GUIDE
in each Working Group


PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Thursday, 18 October

11.30 General Introduction, TensiNet-website, Planning for input of Database, General information accessible to the public?, Contents of next the Newsletter etc. (ALL)
13.30 Lunch

15.00 WG ARCH / WG ENG: Discussion on the Design Guide
WG MAT: Preparation of material database / working documents incl. material properties and existing regulations
19.00 Dinner


Friday, 19 October

9.00 WG ARCH / WG ENG: Discussion on the Design Guide
WG MAT: Preparation of material database / working document incl.
material properties and existing regulations
12.30 Lunch

14.00 Presentation of results / summary (minutes) of each WG (ALL)
15.30 Discussion
16.00-20.00 Tour of Berlin
- The Scandinavian Embassy
- GSW-Building in Kreuzberg
- Sony Centre at Potsdamer Platz

http://www.tensinet.com/files/General_information/20.10.15_AGM_loop.pdf

TensiNet - COST Action TU1303 Symposium 2016 NOVEL STRUCTURAL SKINS

IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY AND EFFICIENCY THROUGH NEW STRUCTURAL TEXTILE MATERIALS AND DESIGNS - deadline abstract submission 30 November, 2015

Please find the link to upload your abstract. Abstracts should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tensinet2016.

You will need to create an EasyChair account to submit.

Queries regarding submissions should be addressed to John Chilton (tensinet2016.papers@gmail.com).

General information on submitting your abstract: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tensinet2016/submissions/

 

TENSINET - COST Action TU1303 SYMPOSIUM 2016

‘Novel Structural Skins’

Improving sustainability and efficiency through new structural textile materials and designs.

Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 October 2016

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

http://www.tensinet.com/files/Symposium_2016/Announcement_-_symposium_2016.pdf

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tensinet2016/