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1. Workshop: (Category); ... Past workshops have dealt with the design through erection of tension membrane structures. Another workshop concentrated on the design, fabrication and erection of knitted shadecloth structures. For ...; Created on 07 August 2019
2. Small Fabric Structures: (Category); Small Fabric Structures: Typically these may be of a plan area of 250 square metres or less. They are often used as shade structures or as signature items at entrances to larger buildings. Other applications ...; Created on 12 February 2015
3. Shadecloth Structures: (Category); ... is the large deflections of these structures under hail loads and wind. Often there is very small amounts of fabric prestress. Generally made from separate panels of knitted shadecloth to provide a degree ...; Created on 22 July 2015
4. Projects: (Category); ... The Projects section of the website has the following categories (see sub-menu or the links below): Small Fabric Structures (less than 250 sqm) Medium Fabric Structures (between 250 and 1000 sqm) ...; Created on 09 February 2015
5. Member Profiles: (Category); ... for Conferences, Seminars and Design Award Entries. We have a passion for realizing excellence in producing world class lightweight structures. Members are engaged in the design, fabrication, erection ...; Created on 09 February 2015
6. Medium Fabric Structures: (Category); In terms of our LSAA Design Awards, a Medium sized Fabric Structure, or tensioned membrane structure) would have a surface area of between 250 and 1000 sqm. Fabric or membrane structures of this size ...; Created on 13 February 2015
7. Large Fabric Structures: (Category); Large fabric structures have generally been thought of as those that have a fabric surface area greater than 1000 square metres. These structures may be described as single surfaces or panels in the ...; Created on 12 February 2015
8. Events: (Category); ... have been completed in the prior two years and have a significant input - design, fabrication or installation - from persons or companies in Australasia. Every other year we endeavour to have one day ...; Created on 09 February 2015
9. Entrances and Canopies: (Category); This category includes protruding entrance coverings from buildings as well as free standing shade providing structures. These forms may not necessarily have tensioned fabric as a major component. In ...; Created on 02 May 2020
10. Conference Program: (Category); The LSAA Conferences run over two consecutive days with a gala Conference Dinner and Design Awards on the Thursday night. There is a mix of invited Keynote speakers as well as speakers from the local ...; Created on 07 August 2019
11. Reflections of the Fabric Structures Architecture: (Industry News); A short paper by Nicholas Goldsmith - (LSAA Keynote Speaker in 2016). He reflects on a time in 1984 at a dinner with Walter Bird, Frei Otto and Ian Liddell and the path that textile architecture has ...; Created on 08 December 2020
12. Updated AS 4174 for Shade Fabrics: (Industry News); An updated Second edition of AS 4174:2018 "Knitted and woven shade fabrics" has been released. It replaces the first edition published in 1994. The main contents are: Section 1 Scope and General Section ...; Created on 19 July 2019
13. Cloud City - Interior Fabric Sculpture: (Internal and Sculptures); ... It continues LAVA’s work in combining digital workflow, nature’s structural principles and the latest digital fabrication technologies with the aim of achieving MORE WITH LESS: more (architecture) with ...; Created on 05 July 2019
14. Fire Issues for Fabric Structures: (Corporate); Following several major building fires around the world there has been a reaction in Australia to introduce restrictions into various regulations that will affect the fabric segment of our industry. The ...; Created on 07 December 2018
15. Inglis Selling Centre Fabric Roofs at Warwick Farm Racecourse (2018): (Large Fabric Structures); Commendation LSAA 2018 Design Awards Large Structures (Cat 4, 4433) Application: Large canopies with a fabric surface area over 2800m2 to cover multiple areas at the Inglis Selling Centre Warwick ...; Created on 13 October 2018
16. Marrara Tennis Centre Fabric Roof Project (2018): (Large Fabric Structures); This project was entered in the LSAA 2018 Design Awards (Cat 4 Large Fabric Structures, #4431) Application: 2 roof canopies for tennis courts – one to cover the synthetic show court and stadium seating; ...; Created on 13 October 2018
17. HVG Fabrics New Distribution for Serge Ferrari: (Member News); HVG Fabrics announces new partnership for Australian distribution of Serge Ferrari flexible composite materials [April 13 2016 Press Release] Leading Australian industrial products distribution business ...; Created on 15 July 2016
18. Fabric Structures at Expo 2015: (Large Fabric Structures); Mehler Coated Technical Textiles supplied large quantities of coated fabric for the 2015 Milan Expo. The major application was for sun shading the two main axes of the Expo. The 85,000 sqm of fabric ...; Created on 28 April 2016
19. Internal Fabric Structures: (Internal and Sculptures); Very lightweight highly curved forms may be used to create exciting geometric forms to fill a void. There will be no external environmental loads from wind, rain or snow but a small degree of prestress ...; Created on 22 July 2015
20. Specialty Fabrics 2013 Expo - Advanced Textiles Conference: (Past Events); ... Specialty Fabrics Expo 2013 and new Advanced Textiles Conference & Trade Show will be held October 23 – 25 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. As an added bonus, IFAI is co-locating ...; Created on 22 February 2015