TensiNet AssociationThe communication platform for professionals &

those interested in tensioned membrane constructions

www.tensinet.com

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

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

TensiNet Association

TensiNet Symposia

� 2013 Istanbul

8 – 10 May

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[RE]THINKING lightweight structures

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.

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.

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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Active working groups

� Specifications & Eurocode

Marijke Mollaert

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Marijke Mollaert

� ETFE

Rogier Houtman

� Materials & analysis

Peter Gosling

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� 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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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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� 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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� 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

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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

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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

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� Heidrun Bögner (Labor

Blum)

� Feike Reitsma (IASO)

� Marijke Mollaert (VUB)

� Rosemarie Wagner

(Wagner Tragwerke)

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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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� 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)

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

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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