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We are pleased to announce that registration for the TENSINANTES 2023 symposium is open!  Don’t miss the early bird discount until 01.03.2023.

Confirmed Keynote speakers include Bruce Danziger- Danziger Engineering Collaborative, Inc. | Carol Monticelli - Polytechnic of Milan | Karsten Moritz – IMS Bauhaus^® Archineer^® Institutes e.V. | Louis Ratajczak - DVVD| Ramon Sastre - Universitat Politècnica Catalunya | Jean-Christophe Thomas – Université Nantes | Grégoire Zündel - Atelier Zündel Cristea

TENSINANTES 2023 will take place at Nantes Université from 7th till 9th June 2023.

Our best wishes for a healthy and inspiring 2023 and of course 2023 is the year of TENSINANTES 2023! 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. Mark this event already in your agenda!

Complementary duos of keynote speakers: The diversity and complementarity within the TensiNet community: suppliers, manufacturers, installers, engineers, architects, researchers & academics, inspired and fed the idea of putting together duos who will give presentations around the 3 main themes:

1/ STRUCTURAL MEMBRANE: contemporary, innovative, adaptive daring and impactful solutions

2/ TENSIONED MEMBRANE STRUCTURES: the seventh building material

3/ STRUCTURAL MEMBRANE: an answer to issues of the 21st century

The duos confirmed today are:

• Grégoire Zündel (Atelier Zündel Cristea) & Ramon Sastre (Universitat Politècnica Catalunya)
• Bruce Danziger (Danziger Engineering Collaborative INC.) & Carol Monticelli (Politecnico di Milano)
• Karsten Moritz (IMS Bauhaus® Archineer® Institutes e.V.) & Jean-Christophe Thomas (Nantes Université)

Conference dinner: The conference dinner on Thursday evening will take place at the amazing venue of the "Gallerie des Machines" at "Les Machines de l'île". You will find Jules Verne's "Invented Worlds", Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical universe and Nantes' industrial history, on this exceptional site of the city's former shipyards.

Sponsoring TENSINANTES 2023: Interested to sponsor the symposium TENSINANTES 2023? There are 4 categories with corresponding benefits: Platinum sponsorship (€4000,00); Gold sponsorship (€3000,00); Silver sponsorship (€2000,00) and Copper sponsorship (€1000,00). See link for more detailed information. We are happy to welcome already our Platinum sponsors ACS Production, Sattler and Serge Ferrari Group; Gold sponsors Mehler Texnologies and Sioen Industries; and Copper sponsor formTL.

Nantes, a city to be visited: Situated in the Loire region of France, Nantes could be regarded as a “tale of two cities” from many angles. Once a bustling node for European shipping, former vast, industrial warehouses have become a hotspot of cultural and artistic expression. Meanwhile, divided by the Loireriver flowing towards the Atlantic, a maze of Haussmann-style terraces, ornate cathedrals, and monumental museums sit in contrast to an island of outlandish mechanical contraptions, and young, modern, free-spirited innovation.The sheer variety of artistic and architectural wonders make Nantes a destination to be explored. Merged with culinary excellence, amazing hotels, and a determination by public and private officials to maintain and expand on the city’s vibrant, playful design scene, and Nantes becomes a must-see, undiscovered architectural gem.For more info on visiting Nantes see link. 

The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) will organise the upcoming Conference 2023 of The Fiber Society.

The Fiber Society is incorporated as a not-for-profit professional and scientific association, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge pertaining to fibers, fiber-based products, and fibrous materials. The Society comprises individuals who are chemists, physicists, engineers and designers with interests in the field of fiber science engineering and technology.

Call for abstracts - NEW Deadline 26.03.2023

Power points presented by TensiNet members in the session Architectural Membranes for High-performance Building Skins,  Life Safety and Fire Prevention in Façades and  Building a Sustainable World at ABS 2022. See link

In 20 plenary and keynote lectures as well as three parallel thematic sessions with a total of 36 'contributed talks', ADD-ITC 2022 will address key challenges of the textile future.

Also for this edition the TensiNet Association was well represented at Advanced Building Skins with the lightweight booth, the TensiNet & Friends Meeting, the session on Architectural Membranes for High-performance Building Skins and different presentations on membranes in the session Life Safety and Fire Prevention in Façades and in the session Building a Sustainable World.

LINK TensiNet & Friends presentation 

There is still time to join the AMA Awards! You have until November 8^th to submit your candidature for an AMA Award. Don’t miss the chance to be part of the awards were sustainability is the King.

For AMA Members:

Category 1 - Product

Category 2 - Projects

For non-AMA Members

Category 3 - Design

Category 4 - Idea

Amongst one of the most important changes for this year’s edition and to show AMA’s commitment to research in this area, AMA is granting an economical prize for the winner of the 4^thcategory: Idea of the year.

For more information on the awards go to the AMA Awards webpage and find all related information.

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TensiNews - Newsletter Nr. 43 - OCTOBER 2022 - Price 15€ (port incl.)

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The European Training Network ActaReBuild – Acoustic and Thermal Retrofit of Buildings, offers 10 funded doctoral positions with starting date during the academic year 2022/23.

ActaReBuild provides research and training in retrofit of office building stock in Europe by means a new generation of sustainable materials and building components. Doctoral candidates will learn how to improve and guarantee acoustic and thermal performance of buildings that undergo renovation processes while minimizing embodied carbon production.

The training offered to 10 Doctoral Candidates interconnected through the network will enforce their research and transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in this burgeoning area. This goal will be achieved by a unique, interdisciplinary combination of specialized “hands-on” research training supported by high-quality joint PhD degree supervision; by performing of secondments at industrial partners; participation at courses and workshops on scientific and complementary “soft” skills facilitated by the academic and non-academic partners of the consortium.

Thanks to network-wide interactions, DCs will get acquainted with a variety of novel building materials and solutions (bio-, nano-, meta-, recycled, 3D printed materials and multilayer structural skins), measurement techniques and assessment methods (such as life cycle analysis and sustainability assessment, psychoacoustic methods, specialized thermal behaviour experiments and a variety of simulation techniques in acoustics, energy, hygrothermal behaviour).

We are looking for researchers willing to combine research and professional training, and willing to travel. Candidates must have a master’s degree in a relevant field of study. ActaReBuild network language is English.

Are you interested?
please send an email to: info@actarebuild.eu and we will let you know once the vacancies are opened. The recruitment platform will soon be operational!

More information on Project Partners and PHD topics: see https://actarebuild.eu/  

CANCELLED

TheTextile Roofs workshops are concerned with the design of architectural membrane roof structures. For most people such roofs are typified by world famous sports stadia and temporary exposition structures.  Although prestigious buildings of this type continue to utilise tensile roofing systems, the scope of application has widened considerably over the past decade. Today tensile roofs are routinely used in shopping centres, corporate headquarters, leisure centres, zoos, schools and even factories.  With a combination of visually dramatic curvilinear form, and economic efficiency, such architectural solutions represent an attractive option for many situations.

The textile roof industry continues to grow world-wide. In order to encourage this development, workshops on the Design and Realisation of Textile Roofs have been held in for more than 20 years. Due to their practical emphasis and unique format, these events have proven increasingly popular.

The participants of the previous events have come from a wide range of backgrounds ranging from established experts to novice students. This rich-mix appears to form part of the popularity of the workshops.

The main objectives of this workshop are to provide fundamental information, as well as presenting the state-of-the-art in textile roof engineering. Above all, the workshop aims to provide practical answers to real-world questions.

Scientific Supervision: Prof Rosemarie Wagner (KIT)