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TENSINET - COST Action TU1303 SYMPOSIUM 2016

‘Novel Structural Skins’

Improving sustainability and efficiency through new structural textile materials and designs.

Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 October 2016

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

http://www.tensinet.com/files/Symposium_2016/Announcement_-_symposium_2016.pdf

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tensinet2016/

The closing date is Thursday, 25th June 2015.

http://www.tensinet.com/files/Techtextil_Competitions/presentation_competition_techtextil_2015.pdf

Techtextil student competition 2015

The 13th student competition “Textile Structures for New Building 2015” took place this year. The event, which is held every two years, was organised within the framework of Techtextil 2015 by the trade fair and sponsored by the international association TensiNet. This competition, which has become established and popular in professional circles, received many entries both from countries inside and also outside the EU.

ROUND ROBIN EXERCISE 3:

COLLATING WIND TUNNEL DATA FOR THE BASIC

SHAPES OF TENSIONED SURFACE STRUCTURES

http://www.tensinet.com/files/General_information/NEW_CALL_ROUND_ROBIN_III-1.pdf

The third Round Robin Exercise is launched by the TensiNet Working Group Specifications and WG5

of the COST Action TU1303 Novel Structural skins and aims at collating wind tunnel data for the

basic shapes of tensioned surface structures.

Return your results by by emailing to jimmy.colliers@vub.ac.be.

http://www.tensinet.com/files/General_information/Vacature_The_Nomad_Concept_Project_engineer.pdf

http://www.tensinet.com/files/TensiNewsflash/TensiNewsflash_December__2014.pdf

http://www.tensinet.com/files/General_information/BH_-_Specialist_Lightweight_Structures_Engineer.pdf

Following an initiative of Prof. Jan Cremers from Hightex, a new working group has been founded which will focus on the subject of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The aim of this group is to review the current status on materials and typical membrane structures with regard to LCA issues. As building certification becomes more and more standard this subject will also touch our part of the building sector. The status reached so far is very heterogeneous and inconsistent for the typical materials we use. On the level of structure types, there is hardly any information available so far. The LCA Working Group will identify and describe steps that could be taken within the TensiNet association to achieve a coherent data base to work with. It should also be as open and transparent as possible to gain a maximum of credibility. The idea is to present a kind of road map how to proceed at the next meeting.

During the setup in Barcelona (November 2011) and afterwards, there was great interest to cooperate in this working group from different sides. But of course we invite still others to join in. If you are interested, please send an email to Jan Cremers from Hightex: jan.cremers@hightexworld.com.