AJ Tensile News Archive: 2015

From South Wales to New South Wales

Date posted: 27 November 2015
Posted in: Biogas Systems

Following a productive round of business meetings ‘down under’, our Biogas Director Richard Cherry is pleased to announce our first collaboration with Australian industrial biogas specialists Eneraque. The project consists of the design, engineering and fabrication of two 15.5m diameter membrane digester roofs at Woolongong Waste Recovery Facility for Sydney Water. Delivery is planned for March 2016 ready for installation in April 2016.

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Game of Domes: winter is coming

Date posted: 28 October 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized

Apologies to George R.R. Martin for the terrible pun, but a sure sign that winter is coming is the annual tennis dome installation and inflation at Coolhurst Tennis and Squash Club in Crouch End, London. Our inflatable fabric dome allows the club to offer year-round play in anything the British weather can throw at it, allowing natural light in during the day and using an ingenious reflective floodlight system for night-time illumination. Give us a call on 01291 425099 if this is the type of protection your club needs to keep club members happy and revenue flowing uninterrupted throughout the year, and enjoy your very own Game of Domes this winter.

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Our Tension Structures division has been awarded Safecontractor status

Date posted: 28 October 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized

Our Tension Structures division was recently awarded Safecontractor status, giving our clients full confidence that the highest standards of site safety will be adhered to on all of our projects.

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We are proud to announce Achilles supply chain accreditation

Date posted: 28 October 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized

Following months of preparation and a thorough two-day audit our Fabrications and Biogas divisions are very proud to announce that they have been awarded Achilles Supplier Information & Supply Chain accreditation, and can now sit alongside such valued brands as Aston Martin, EDF Energy, Shell Oil and McLaren Automotive in the list of accredited supply chain members.

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In their own words, “Achilles creates and manages a global network of collaborative industry communities, allowing trading partners to share high quality, structured, real-time data. Using cloud-based technology, we act as an independent partner providing validated data and insightful analytics to enable buyers to manage risk, and suppliers to increase market reach in their sector”.

Swansea University Cycle Shelter

Date posted: 29 September 2015
Posted in: Tension Structures

Our Tension Structures division recently completed the installation of this tensile fabric cycle shelter canopy for Vinci Construction on the Science and Innovation Campus at Swansea University. Our team worked closely with Vinci to develop the final design, adapting one of our existing 18m x 8m triple conics to provide a more balanced aesthetic while reducing overall costs. All design, engineering, manufacture and installation of the steel support frame and was undertaken by ourselves in conjunction with our technical partners, and the fabric canopy was manufactured in-house at our Caldicot production facility. The programme from appointment to handover of the finished canopy was around four months.

Spring has sprung! Up goes the temperature, down comes the dome.

Date posted: 16 April 2015
Posted in: Tensile Fabrications, Tension Structures

A sure sign that winter is well and truly behind us, the AJ Tensile crew attended Coolhurst Tennis and Squash Club in Crouch End, London this week for the annual tennis dome removal in time for the summer season. The whole operation of deflation, packing and on-site storage takes less than a day, generating no mess and with minimal disruption. Our inflatable fabric dome allows the club to offer year-round play in anything the British weather can throw at it, allowing natural light in during the day and using an ingenious reflective floodlight system for night-time illumination. Give us a call on 01291 425099 if this is the type of protection your club needs to keep club members happy and revenue flowing uninterrupted throughout the year.

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Tension Structures achieves full Constructionline accreditation

Date posted: 9 March 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized

We are pleased to announce that our Tension Structures division has now achieved full Constructionline accreditation, making pre-qualification more straightforward and helping to streamline the tendering process.constructionline1

AJTF attends WaterAid charity fundraiser

Date posted: 9 March 2015
Posted in: Biogas Systems, Tensile Fabrications, Tension Structures

groupFour of us recently donned our penguin suits for a lavish charity bash at the splendid Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel in Wotton-under-Edge, organised by Nomenca Ltd as part of their committed fundraising work for WaterAid. The evening was an overwhelming success with fine dining, good company, interesting conversation and excellent networking opportunities.

Of far greater importance, however, were the many thousands of pounds raised for a very worthy cause: delivering safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects in twenty-six countries around the world. Thanks once again to Nomenca for the invitation and to Tortworth Court for hosting the event.

For further details of WaterAid’s remarkable achievements please visit www.wateraid.org .

Mermaids in Rhyl

Date posted: 3 February 2015
Posted in: Tensile Fabrications, Tension Structures

Our Tension Structures division recently completed this 18m x 8m triple conic entrance canopy for the Mermaids Café at the Marine Holiday Park in Rhyl, North Wales. Part of our service included undertaking all the necessary submissions regarding planning applications and building regulations on behalf of the client, and liaising directly with the local council to ensure the process ran smoothly. This free-standing canopy is part of our cost-effective standard range of pre-designed products, but for this project we re-engineered the columns to raise the canopy by 800mm so that it overlapped the edge of the existing café roof to provide complete rain shelter at the entrance. The installation was completed in just over three days during the off-season to minimise disruption to park visitors.

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AJTF in Cincinnati

Date posted: 3 February 2015
Posted in: Biogas Systems, Tensile Fabrications, Tension Structures

One from the archives here..! We recently found these photos in the bottom of a drawer and thought we’d give them an airing. In 2010 we sent a team to the USA to work with one of our American partners in Cincinnati, providing expertise and hands-on training while finishing and detailing a membrane structure that we had originally part-fabricated at our production facility back in Britain. It was a very intense but enjoyable few days, and it’s always interesting to see how things are done just that little bit differently on the other side of the pond. Whether we are working in the UK, mainland Europe or the rest of the world, we always do our very best to provide the highest level of service to all of our customers.

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