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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style

Construction Specifier

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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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture

Construction Specifier

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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Connecting it all: Role of joints as a primary component

Construction Specifier

Photos courtesy Hoffmann Architects + Engineers. They have a ubiquitous presence within a building’s visual language and physical fabric, yet are often overlooked or even fundamentally misunderstood. How can joints represent a marriage between pragmatic responsibility and visual poetry? By Richard W.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

A good example is the shop drawing, which provides detailed plans for fabrications that are completed off-site. The illustrations allow contractors or fabricators to know what on-site teams want and what materials are needed. They can be drawings for windows, roofing assemblies, storefronts, etc.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

A good example is the shop drawing, which provides detailed plans for fabrications that are completed off-site. The illustrations allow contractors or fabricators to know what on-site teams want and what materials are needed. They can be drawings for windows, roofing assemblies, storefronts, etc.

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What is a submittal in construction? A comprehensive guide

Lets Build

A good example is the shop drawing, which provides detailed plans for fabrications that are completed off-site. The illustrations allow contractors or fabricators to know what on-site teams want and what materials are needed. They can be drawings for windows, roofing assemblies, storefronts, etc.

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AEC Collection Workflows: Dynamo for Structure

BIM & Beam

The visual programming interface of Dynamo for Revit is enabling structural engineers with the tools to build structural models with minimal energy and make their own structural design tools. Within Dynamo structural engineers can automate processes in Revit, and build complex and logic structures with minimal energy.