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TensiNet AssociationThe communication platform for professionals &
those interested in tensioned membrane constructions
www.tensinet.com
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History
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History
TensiNet was funded
by the EC within the
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5th Framework Programme
Work programme GROWTH
Start Date: 01.03.2001
End Date: 01.03.2004
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History
It started as
a Thematic Network
for Upgrading
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for Upgrading
the Built Environment
in Europe through
Tensile Structures
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History
� Ideas for a research
proposal were discussed
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in 1999
� Create a common basis in
Europe
� Cover the full life-cycle
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History
� Establish knowledge
bases
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� Accessible through
website
www.tensinet.com
� User-friendly interface
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History
� Not enough confidence
� Clients
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� Almost no experience
� Architects
� Engineers
� Contractors
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History
“Der normale Architekt
beherrscht
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diese Bauweise nicht,
denn er hat sie nicht erlernt”
Günter Brinkmann
Michael Andretzky
Ulrich Hangleiter
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History
� The market is changing
� Looking to the future
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there are
� challenges
� opportunities
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History
� The market is growing
� Interest is increasing
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� More specific and
detailed information
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History
� Globalisation
� Increase the quality of
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our products
� Improve technical
performance
� Provide validated
reference data
throughout Europe
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History
“A unified effort is needed
to develop standards that
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to develop standards that
advance the performance
of membranes for
lightweight enclosures”
Alex Heslop
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History
Previous EU-funded projects
� ISIMEM
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� ISIMEM M+T
� DELITE
� VINYLOOP
� and more
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History
Previous EU-funded projects
� ISIMEM
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� ISIMEM M+T
� DELITE
� VINYLOOP
� and more
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Network activities
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Network activities
Inform
� Urban planners,
architects, engineers
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and checking authorities
� Material suppliers
� Fabricators
� Building owners and
clients
� Educational institutes
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Network activities
� Architects, engineers and
constructors require
uniform technical directives
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uniform technical directives
� Initiate the transfer of basic
and multi-disciplinary
knowledge
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Network activities
� Accumulate specific
knowledge to facilitate the
production of best
practice guidelines:
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practice guidelines:
European Design Guide
for Tensile Surface
Structures
� Identify gaps in current
knowledge needing
scientific research
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TensiNet Association
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TensiNet Association
A memorandum of
understanding
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- to arrange the continuation
of the activities - was signed
in June 2004
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TensiNet Association
� is a platform for parties
interested in tensioned
membrane structures
offers the opportunity to
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� offers the opportunity to
exchange and share
multidisciplinary
knowledge about tensile
structures in order to
increase the quality of
tensile architecture
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TensiNet Association
� interact with all parties
involved in membrane
construction
seeks to enhance the
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� seeks to enhance the
positive image of tensile
structures
� makes the information
specific to tensile
architecture more easily
accessible
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TensiNet Association
� organizes or supports
workshops and symposia
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� co-sponsors the Student
Competition at Techtextil
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TensiNet Association
Teaching and training
activities
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� Textile Roofs Workshop
yearly in Berlin
www.textile-roofs.com
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TensiNet Association
TensiNet Symposia
� 2003 Brussels
Designing Tensile Architecture
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� 2007 Milano
Ephemeral Architecture:
Time And Textiles
� 2010 Sofia
Tensile Architecture: Connecting Past
and Future - proceedings still available
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TensiNet Association
TensiNet Symposia
� 2013 Istanbul
8 – 10 May
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[RE]THINKING lightweight structures
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TensiNet Association
TensiNet Symposium 2013
[RE]THINKING Analysis & Materials - Peter Gosling
ETFE - Rogier Houtman
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PNEUMATIC STRUCTURES - Matthew Birchall
[CLOSING THE LOOP] Life Cycle Assessment for
Membrane Materials and Structures - Jan Cremers
Forthcoming interesting PROJECTS will be presented.
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TensiNet Association
TensiNet Symposium 2013
Prominent experts in the membrane architecture and engineering
world will introduce each plenary session.
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The keynote speakers Horst Berger, Markus Balz & Christoph
Paech (sbp), Matthew Birchall (Buro Happold), Shajay Bhooshan
(Zaha Hadid Office), Jürgen Bradatsch (SL-Rasch), Jan Cremers
(Hightex), Ken’ ichi Kawaguchi, Feike Reitsma & Patrick Vaillant
(IASO), Alar Ruutopold (Saint-Gobain) and Werner Sobek (Werner
Sobek Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG) have already confirmed.
The keynote lectures will be followed by the presentation of related
papers.
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TensiNet Association
Competition
� Student Competition
Techtextil
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Techtextil Fair
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TensiNet Association
Team
Chairperson: Heidrun Balz-Bögner (Labor Blum)
Vice Chairs: Bernd Stimpfle (Form TL GmbH), Stefania
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Vice Chairs: Bernd Stimpfle (Form TL GmbH), Stefania
Lombardi (Canobbio), John Chilton (University of
Nottingham)
Secretary: Marijke Mollaert, Evi Corne (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel)
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TensiNet Association
� is managed by an elected
board under the direction
of a Chair - elected for a
period of 2 years
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period of 2 years
� the Chair is supported by
three Vice Chairs and the
Executive Secretary
� National representatives
support TensiNet at
national level
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TensiNet Association
More then 200 Members
Partners Buro Happold; Canobbio S.p.A.; Ceno Tec;
Dyneon GmbH; FabricArt; Form TL; Hightex GmbH; Mehler
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Texnologies; Messe Frankfurt Techtextil; Naizil S.P.A.;
Saint-Gobain; Sefar; Serge Ferrari sa; Sioen Industries;
technet GmbH; Verseidag + Associated Partners
Schools & universities
Firms
Individual members
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TensiNet Association
Meetings
� Partner Meeting: 2/year
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� Partner Meeting: 2/year
� Annual General Meeting:
autumn
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TensiNet Association
� has different Working
Groups
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� participates in research
projects to drive research
forward in the field of
textile architecture
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TensiNet Association
Active working groups
� Specifications & Eurocode
Marijke Mollaert
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Marijke Mollaert
� ETFE
Rogier Houtman
� Materials & analysis
Peter Gosling
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TensiNet Association
� Pneumatic structures
Matthew Birchall
� LCA
Jan Cremers
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Jan Cremers
Future working groups
� Disaster Relief
open position
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
Specifications & Eurocode
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A proposal has been sent
to the standardisation
community CEN/TC250
as a first step in establishing
a Eurocode Part
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
Specifications & Eurocode
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A Working Group
CEN/TC250 WG5
Membranes has been
established
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
Specifications & Eurocode
The Eurocode should be
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achieved as follows:
� preparation of technical rules
� adaptation into a
CEN Technical Specification
� conversion into a
Eurocode Part
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
ETFE
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Annex
European Design Guide on
Design recommendations
for ETFE foil structures
Ready for publication
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
Materials & analysis
Round Robin
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Round Robin
� 1. Round robin 1 – follow-up
� 2. Round robin 2 - interpretation
of biaxial & shear test data
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
Pneumatics
Launched in Oct. 2011
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Launched in Oct. 2011
Annex
European Design Guide on
Design Recommendations for Pneumatic Structures
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TensiNet Association
Working Group
LCA
Launched in Oct. 2011
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Launched in Oct. 2011
Kick off workshop Oct. 2012
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TensiNet Association
Research contribution
CONTEX-T: EU-funded Integrated project
Textile architecture (2006-2010) www.contex-t.eu
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The research project aimed to develop a breakthrough
in textile architecture,
the lightweight textile reinforced structures and tension
fabric structures industry by:
� the development of new materials
� the intelligent use of the materials
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
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� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
22nd November 2012- Vienna
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
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� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
22nd November 2012- Vienna
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
22nd November 2012- Vienna
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
� Bert Groenendaal (Sioen)
� Roberto Canobbio
(Canobbio)
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
22nd November 2012- Vienna
� Heidrun Bögner (Labor
Blum)
� Feike Reitsma (IASO)
� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)
� Rosemarie Wagner
(Wagner Tragwerke)
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TensiNet Association
Research contribution
S(P)EEDKITS
www.speedkits.eu
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This project will provide kits that can be pre-positioned
and mobilized very quickly and easily, that are modular
and adaptable, low cost, high-tech in their conception
but low-tech in use.
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TensiNet Association
� Guy Buyle (Contexbel)
� Bert Groenendael (Sioen)
� Marijke Mollaert & Jan
Roekens (VUB)
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Roekens (VUB)
� Roel Gijsbers (Technische
universiteit Eindhoven)
� Alessandra Zanelli &
Roberto Maffei (Politecnico
di Milano)
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TensiNet Association
� maintains the website
www.tensinet.com
containing a projects
database as well as a
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database as well as a
library with articles
� publishes the TensiNews
newsletter twice a year
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TensiNet Association
Newsletter
� TensiNews 2/year
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� TensiNews 2/year
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Looking forwards
Aims
� Improve quality
Get science into practice
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� Get science into practice
� Promote research in the field of tensile surface structures
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To join:
Register at
Looking forwards
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Register at
www.tensinet.com
As a new TensiNet member
you receive a free copy of
the European Design Guide
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