Lightweight Design

Lightweight Design

Lightweight Design

Certification Process

The Engineering division of Lightweight specializes in designing standardized modular tensioned fabric structures, known as Lightweight Design. In projects involving rental projects and permanent structures, the owners or engineers must have the load requirements of standard structures certified.

 A Professional Engineer (PE) certified in the jurisdiction where the project is located is responsible for sealing the certifications for submission.

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.

Our engineering package will include drafts and engineer drawings defining the structure, load assumptions, and reactions on the anchoring. Therefore, providing sufficient detail for the calculations that other structural engineers, or building inspectors, can recreate (portions of) the calculations. In conclusion, we streamline and ensure the accuracy of the information verification process.

Lightweight Design provides the entire work pipeline process for permanent fabric structures, tensile structures, and frame-supported structure

These renders were provided by our talented engineers as they run different fabric stress analyses through various simulations of different structural forms like a cone and cantilever structure to ensure the fabric integrity will hold.

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