Tensile Fabric Structures – Properties, Types and Advantages
The Constructor
OCTOBER 15, 2018
Fabric tensile structures are tensile structures in which a membrane is ‘stretched’ to form a three-dimensional surface that can be used.
The revolution of tension fabric buildings in facility design
Construction Specifier
MARCH 11, 2024
In the case of tension fabric buildings, there exists the unique potential for miscommunication while even just considering whether a fabric structure is the right architectural choice in the first place. For many, the term “fabric building” carries negative connotations of being a cheap or temporary option.
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Advantages of Automation In Sheet Metal Fabrication
Learn Civil Engineering
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
In the ever-evolving world of manufacturing, the role of automation in sheet metal fabrication cannot be overstated. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the fascinating history of sheet metal fabrication, delve into the nuts […]
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Exploiting the virtues of metal fabric in rooftop design
Construction Specifier
JULY 27, 2023
Photos courtesy GKD Metal Fabrics. Metal fabric presents a flexible, elegant design option that is also extremely durable—which is an ideal combination for activating a rooftop environment. Manufacturers can provide a wide array of weave patterns, alloys, and color coatings to dramatically change the appearance using metal fabric.
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Staying in control with fabric cladding
Construction Specifier
MARCH 4, 2022
Tension fabric structures have served a key role as a cost-effective facility solution for years. In some cases, users have turned to fabric buildings when brick-and-mortar construction is not economically feasible or would take too long to complete. The fabric building market remained stable, but also stagnant, for a long time.
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Panasonic Opens Engineering & Fabrication Center in Metro Dallas
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
FEBRUARY 11, 2016
Panasonic Opens Engineering & Fabrication Center in Metro Dallas originally appeared on Business Facilities - Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. Building a high resolution videoboard at Panasonic’s new engineering and fabrication center in metro Dallas.
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How to Lay Geosynthetic Fabric in Highway Construction? [PDF]
The Constructor
JUNE 6, 2020
Geosynthetics are extensively used in highway construction as they play the role of a separator, filter, reinforcement, stiffener, drainer, barrier,
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Automatic structural steel fabrication system
Construction Cost Estimating
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
This construction video shows the detailed process for structural steel fabrication automatically. Steel fabrication is the process for developing metal structures through cutting, bending, and assembling processes. It is a value added procedures that engrosses the construction of machines and structures out of several raw materials.
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40 The True Origin of LEAN
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 9, 2022
The public grasped this in the dramatic form of the moving assembly line, but from the standpoint of the manufacturing engineer the breakthroughs went much further.
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CABKOMA Strand Rods: World’s Lightest Anti-Seismic Reinforcement
The Constructor
JULY 4, 2021
Japan-based Komatsu Seiten Fabric Laboratory developed an innovative thermoplastic carbon fiber composite called CABKOMA Strand Rod in 2016. It is an.
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Rebar Detailing to Fabrication at Autodesk University 2014
BIM & Beam
DECEMBER 22, 2014
This year at Autodesk University we had a set of fantastic classes for the Structural Engineering and Fabrication industry. One of them was “Rebar Detailing to Fabrication Workflows Using Building Information Modeling” presented by Jeff Cochrane - Director, Software Design, Applied Systems Associates, Inc.
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56 The MEP and Structural Fabricators Forum Joins Forces with AU
BIM & Beam
JUNE 18, 2018
If you’ve been a part of the MEP and Structural Fabricators Forum in the past, you know what a unique event it is—a place to learn how technology is changing the game for those who detail and fabricate MEP and structural systems. The post The MEP and Structural Fabricators Forum Joins Forces with AU appeared first on BIM and Beam.
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40 Metal Fabricator CMI Thrives On High-Value Projects
ENR Construction
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Coordinated Metals, New York Specialty Firm of the Year, has the engineering and fabrication skills to realize architects’ designs.
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Caterpillar Engineers Begin Hands-On Training at Pima College
Construction Equipment
AUGUST 29, 2018
Caterpillar engineers have begun learning the basics of machining and welding under an educational partnership, providing them hands-on experience with fabrication. The partnership, a 20-week program offered through Arizona’s Pima Community College, includes classes such as Machining for Non-…
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Q&A: How Industrialized Construction Is Reverse Engineering the Construction Process?: Told from the JE Dunn Perspective? ?
Autodesk Construction Cloud
DECEMBER 13, 2022
The main takeaway: industrialized construction is reverse engineering the construction process, offering a more thoughtful and systematic planning approach throughout every stage of the delivery process. . Let’s dive in! . By morning, I was a civil engineering student and worked in a steel fabrication facility by night.
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Engineering Firms Connect BIM-Based Design and Construction Through Fabrication
BIM & Beam
AUGUST 25, 2014
Leading engineering firms are finding that BIM provides opportunities for companies to reshape projects at an ecosystem level, changing workflows in ways that deliver important results. A major driver of this evolution is that engineering firms are looking for better return on investment from BIM (see Figure 1).
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'Fabrication Hall' introduces Wyoming high school students to career paths
BD+C
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
The beating heart of the Pathways Innovation Center is Fabrication Hall, a 5,000-sf common space flanked on all sides by technology-focused labs. The two-story hall was inspired by private sector facilities, such as Boeing’s complex in Washington state, that house their engineering and design teams under one roof.
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2022 Top 400 Sourcebook: Fluor is EPC Contractor for Offshore La. Gas Export Plant's Two Phases
ENR Construction
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
is executing engineering, procurement and fabrication management for two phases of New Fortress Energy Inc.’s Fluor Corp. s first offshore natural gas export plant in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Grand Isle, La.
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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style
Construction Specifier
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.
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Brandt Companies, Magnum Engineering Join Forces
Contractor Magazine
MAY 14, 2019
This partnership will enable a unique service offering to Texas based and national clients including design, build, fabrication, and construction solutions.
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Move quickly from design to fabrication with Autodesk Advance Steel 2017
BIM & Beam
APRIL 14, 2016
Built on the familiar AutoCAD platform, Advance Steel helps provide engineering and detailing professionals the tools needed to model the details necessary for their structures. Easy Access to Fabrication Data. We’ve also made it easier to access customized fabrication data. Out of the box drawings.
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40 Metal Fabricator To Relocate From Ohio To Northeast Indiana
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
MARCH 5, 2013
(KMI), a manufacturer of sheet metal fabrications and enclosures, announced plans to relocate its headquarters from Defiance, OH to Fremont, IN, creating up to 44 new jobs by 2018. KMI also plans to relocate fabricating equipment from Ohio and update the Steuben County facility’s software and technology. .”
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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture
Construction Specifier
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.
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Egan Adds Chief Engineer to Company Roster
Contractor Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Mechanical contractor and fabricator Andy J. LEED AP, CGD, as the company’s Chief Engineer. Egan) has hired Ken Van Putten, P.E., Management'
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61 Filling in BIM Gaps - EastCoast Design to Fabrication
Revit OpEd
DECEMBER 15, 2010
EastCoast CAD/CAM announced on November 30th that they are now supporting a workflow from AutoCAD MEP and Revit MEP models to their fabrication software. I either completely missed them at AU or they weren't there. So much to do, so little time.
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49 Are You Ready For An OSHA Audit?
FDR Safety
JULY 16, 2018
This blog is targeting small employers, especially those involved with sheet metal fabrication. are all operations that often do not allow use of engineered safeguards like two hand controls, light screens, etc. Over the past few years, FDRsafety has been asked to represent a disproportionate number of small metal fabricating plants.
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All About Geotextiles | What Are Geotextiles | Types of Geotextiles | Advantages And Disadvantages of Geotextiles
CivilJungle
JUNE 16, 2022
Woven Fabric. Woven fabric geotextiles are popular, and their making procedure is similar to that of fabrics. Nonwoven Fabric. Knitted Fabric. It toughens the mud by extracting flexible power and is used as a fast water flow in roads, geotextiles fabric necessary to block their absorptive except fail their nature.
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52 Fluor JV wins $14B LNG Canada natural gas facility contract
Construction Dive
OCTOBER 4, 2018
will provide engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction services for the new LNG export facility in British Columbia, which could employ as many as 4,500 workers at peak construction. Fluor and Japan's JGC Corp.
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Engineering Firm Helps Contain 15-year-old Oil Spill
ENR Construction
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
The containment "dome" was fabricated on a fast track to capture and separate oil and natural gas coming up from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
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49 Arup uses 3D printing to fabricate one-of-a-kind structural steel components
BD+C
JUNE 18, 2014
The work signals a whole new direction for the use of additive manufacturing in the field of construction and engineering. The research also shows that additive manufacturing has the potential to reduce costs, cut waste and slash the carbon footprint of the construction sector. Body Image: read more.
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Call for Entries Now Open for 2013 AISC IDEAS2 Awards
Construction Business Owner
DECEMBER 28, 2012
(Chicago, IL) - Architectural and engineering firms, general contractors, fabricators and owners are encouraged to enter steel-framed building projects for the 2013 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS2) Awards, sponsored annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction.
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Thoughts on Lean Design - The 12 Fundamentals
Lean Construction
MAY 24, 2021
The application of Lean in the design and engineering of capital projects lags behind Lean applications maturing in both construction fabrication and site assembly processes. There is still much that we can learn from the world consumer product development that has yet to be applied to Lean capital project delivery.
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Concrete Cloth -Properties, Materials, Applications and Process of Making
The Constructor
APRIL 10, 2017
Concrete Cloth is flexible cement impregnated fabric. Process of making concrete cloth, properties, materials and applications in construction is.
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189 BIM to Fabrication for Timber Prefab
BIM & Beam
DECEMBER 1, 2015
We see engineers and builders using #StrucSoft #MWF for Revit to generate BIM-based structural analysis, design and detailing documentation and CNC files that drive #Howick machines. . The Era of Connection tells us that project teams and how they delivery projects will be more connected in the future.
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Assembly (and rigorous planning) required: Managing pros and cons of modular construction
BD+C
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
As a buildings engineer, I’ve had the fulfilling opportunity to travel for work, experiencing new cities, learning about emerging building techniques, and seeing firsthand how new projects play an important role in complementing the fabric of a community. But it’s not often that I can say my projects are also certified globetrotters.
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85 Advance Steel in Autodesk AEC Collection
BIM & Beam
OCTOBER 10, 2017
Structural engineers, detailers and fabricators struggle with siloed teams, disconnected workflows, and varying software platforms that do not integrate seamlessly. This requires manual processes to bridge gaps which can lead to expensive errors and fabrication waste. Reduce waste in shop and field production.
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Design and specification considerations: Stand-alone canopy structure systems
Construction Specifier
APRIL 22, 2022
Freestanding canopy systems can be specified for numerous project applications, fabricated with a choice of materials, and engineered to meet a range of performance requirements. This is for the same reasons it is used in the framing system—ease of fabrication, lightweight, design flexibility, durability, longevity, and recyclability.
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Building material innovation: Concrete cloth simplifies difficult pours
BD+C
APRIL 23, 2013
Milliken recently debuted a flexible fabric that allows for concrete installations on slopes, in water, and in other hard to reach places—without the need for molds or mixing. Concrete Cloth features a cement mix trapped in a layer of fabric, backed with a waterproof membrane.
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Five Causes of Construction Rework and How to Avoid Them
Fieldwire
APRIL 11, 2022
Fabrication Issues. Pre-fabricated components can provide huge time savings on construction projects, but if components arrive on the job site with problems, they can also add delays and potentially require rework. Design and fabrication issues can be mitigated when identified early in the project. Potential Solutions.
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Watch UK’s heaviest bridge drive on HS2
Construction Enquirer
JULY 19, 2023
Chloe Foster-Chambers, Section Engineer for Balfour Beatty Vinci said: “As an engineer, big feats of engineering like this bridge drive make HS2 such a fantastic project to work on. The BBV team have been fantastic to work with, demonstrating great leadership, teamwork and management of a complex engineering project.”
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Stackable steel modules speed building core construction
BD+C
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Engineered as an alternative to traditional building core construction methods, such as cast-in-place concrete, precast concrete, and masonry, this patented, steel-and-concrete hybrid system can simplify and accelerate the construction of reinforced concrete stair and elevator core structures.
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Individual Engineer not Liable for Corporation's Errors
Construction Lawyer
JUNE 3, 2014
Servinsky Engineering, PLLC , a federal court has held that the individual engineer who sealed the drawings and designed the system could be dismissed from the case. The firm (owned by the individual engineer) was hired to design a fabric covered farm building. In a recent Virginia case, McConnell v.
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Innovative Approaches to Industrial Construction Project Management
Construction Marketing
APRIL 11, 2023
This has obviously led to large-scale improvements in the way structures are designed and building materials are fabricated. This includes everyone from architects, engineers, contractors, and subcontractors. As in all walks of life, technology and innovation are changing the landscape of the industrial construction industry.
Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce
Buisness Facilities Contributed Content
JUNE 22, 2016
We found top-class universities and a great community college, with programs dedicated to the mechatronics sector that will grow excellent young engineers with the skills necessary to run Eldor’s advanced automated lines.”. In Huntsville, AIDT is focused on building upon the region’s engineering and manufacturing prowess.
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