COTS tent manufacturers find a niche, exceed specs and produce high-performance shelters efficiently. By Jake Kulju On any given day, the U.S. military may conduct actions in sweltering heat, bitter cold or high winds. To shelter troops and equipment in such varying conditions, military units frequently turn to Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tents. This practice is [...]
J.C. Egnew builds a business where the community and company support each other. By Sigrid Tornquist Success? “It’s about assessing risk. One of the things I spend a lot of time doing is looking for opportunities and assessing risk,” says J.C. Egnew, founder and owner of Outdoor Venture Corp., which manufactures custom tent systems in [...]
Two years after New Orleans’ lower 9th Ward was swallowed up in Hurricane Katrina, rebuilding still languished, hampered by lack of funds and attention. While filming a movie in New Orleans, Brad Pitt noticed a pink fabric house being used as part of the set. Working with architectural firm GRAFT LLC of Los Angeles for [...]
Problem: Communication strategies must focus on branding, reaching mobile target groups, increasing dialog with customers and capitalizing on out-of-home media. Solution: Temporary spaces bring the message to mobile customers, and the ZENDOME geodesic dome can be deployed easily and anywhere. With specially designed software, images (including logos, brands or landscapes) printed on ZENDOME.billboard-XXL can be [...]
[ Fabric Images Inc. ] Elgin, Ill., U.S.A. The particular autoshow for which this Ferrari exhibit was constructed is unique in that each exhibitor creates its own pavilion in an outdoor setting. The high-end automaker chose a dome structure and created both inside and outside display elements. The graphics on the elements were produced from [...]
[ Transformit ] Gorham, Maine, U.S.A.. The objective of this display was to visually demonstrate that Verizon as a company was about to “take off” (the telecommunications giant had recently acquired MCI). In keeping with this theme, the spherical structure featured fabric “wings,” and the floor of the booth was curved in two directions like [...]
[ Eventscape Inc. ] Toronto, Ont., Canada This fabric structure, nicknamed the “squid booth,” was designed to reach out to architects, designers and other potential clients, drawing them in with its tentacles so that they could see and experience Eventscape’s capabilities in fabrication and design. The connections and intricacies of the joints of the tentacles [...]
Each year, more than two million Muslims visit the Holy Mosque at Mecca for three days and nights. Mina Valley in Saudi Arabia is one of the stations housing pilgrims, but a 1997 fire during Hajj destroyed thousands of cotton tents used for shelter there. Saudi authorities are rebuilding the Mina Valley tent city of [...]
Weather delays, flight cancellations, security checks and skyrocketing fuel costs are making it tough for airplanes to get off the ground. Frequent flyers find themselves grounded too, stuck overnight in noisy, cavernous airports waiting for the blizzard over Pittsburgh to relent. No lodging, no blankets, no privacy and no sleep—unless you happen to bring your [...]
Daydreaming about a cottage in the woods? Rainier Industries, Tukwila, Wash., may make those dreams a reality for customers with its new Rainier Cottage, a handcrafted canvas and Douglas fir structure for permanent or semi-permanent use. Sturdy enough for use year-round in most climates, the cottage’s 100-percent cotton Army Duck canvas is water repellent, mildew [...]
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