The evolution of fabric structures
Lightweight, versatile and cost-effective, fabric gives architects and clients options for creating sports facilities, arenas and other large-span spaces.
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Thermal textile innovation in Japan
As thermal control becomes an increasingly important area of innovation in technical textiles, manufacturers are developing solutions tailored to specific applications. In Japan, companies are applying advances in fibers, polymers and specialty materials to develop products addressing challenges that range from cooling large gathering and storage spaces to helping people stay warm without overheating in performance apparel.
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Your mission: Invest in a leadership-ready workforce
Manufacturers are always competing for skilled operators, production leaders and capable managers. One highly trained workforce to enlist is transitioning military veterans.
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Beyond the fabric
Once valued primarily for their speed of deployment and flexibility, today’s clearspan structures increasingly are expected to perform like permanent buildings. Whether serving as manufacturing space, climate-controlled warehouses, aviation hangars, corporate hospitality venues or emergency-response facilities, owners want structures that maintain comfortable interior temperatures, reduce energy consumption and provide greater security over deployments that can last months or even years.
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Geosynthetic-reinforced MSE walls for bridge approaches, abutments
The use of MSE walls has grown significantly in volume as well as the type of structures where they are used.
Fabric Architecture
Hong Kong athletic victory
From a distance across Victoria Harbour, the Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong looks much like its nickname, “The Pearl of the Orient,” with its color changing with the light, from bluish green to a shiny gray. While sports stadiums have had the same basic shape since the Greeks and the Romans—a circular amphitheater with pitched seats—the Kai Tak Stadium, located in Kai Tak Sports Park, with its acoustically sealed, retractable roof is to the coliseum what a luxury timepiece is to a basic sundial.
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Exploring the reach of bio-based textile solutions
Biomimicry is, basically, the science of imitating nature to find solutions for human problems. Daryl L. Thompson, director of scientific initiatives at Global Research and Discovery Group (GRDG Sciences LLC), called plants “the original textile” in his talk about “lessons and applications for biomimicry” at the Advanced Textiles Association’s (ATA) Emerging Textiles (ET) Conference last week in Orlando, Fla.