Lightweight Design

Certification Process

Lightweight Design specializes in standardized tensioned fabric structures. Subsequently, for rental and permanent structure projects, owners, or engineers must have their load requirements certified.

Equally important, a Professional Engineer (PE) certified in the jurisdiction where the project is located is responsible for sealing the certifications for submission.

However, Lightweight conducts engineering reviews and provides certifications for all types of tensioned fabric structures and rental tents with a PE seal in any US State. Meaning, clearspan tents, tensile tents, and frame tents.

Lightweight Design Engineering Package

Furthermore, our engineering package includes drafts and engineer drawings defining the structure, load assumptions, and reactions on the anchoring.

Therefore, providing details for the calculations that other structural engineers, or building inspectors, can recreate portions of. Finally, we verify the accuracy through the information process.

In addition, Lightweight Design provides the entire work pipeline process for permanent fabric structures, tensile structures, and frame-supported structures, streamlining the process further.

(NOTE: Lightweight acts as a subcontractor and does not provide installation of projects for any tensile or tent structures.)

For example, these renders were provided by our talented engineers and drafters as they run different fabric stress analyses through various simulations of different structural forms.

Illustrated, are cone, cantilever, and barrel structures rendered to ensure the fabric integrity will hold accounting for several variables such as weather and tension.

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