ETFE is an exciting, new and modern approach to roofing with benefits which outweigh glass and other products.
Most sport is best played outdoors but with the unpredictable British weather games can often get cancelled or relocated inside. While the weather cant be changed, the addition of a tensile fabric canopy can provide shelter for the participants and spectators allowing the game to continue.
Unlike traditional building materials, some tensile fabric membranes are an ideal printing surface and with that comes the ability to update, change and brand any building, structure or space. Whether used to screen a space, like cladding the scaffolding on a building under construction, or producing large scale banners to promote a brand or event. Tensile fabric is an ideal material to use.
To maintain their shape and structural stability multi-layer ETFE foil cushions require air inflation. The cushions are kept continually inflated at a predefined pressure by a small air handling unit (or AHUs) connected to a control panel which inflates, monitors and maintains the pressure in each individual cushion.
World renowned architect Zaha Hadid has worked on some of the worlds most impressive structures and has gained her reputation from making the impossible, possible. Her capabilities do not seem to have boundaries and always one to explore new and exciting construction methods, Zaha has embraced the opportunities tensile fabric can offer.
