Tensys are structural engineering consultants providing specialist services for the design and construction of lightweight glazed structures, advanced building facades, lightweight stressed membrane structures and complex geometric forms with offices in Bath, UK and Melbourne, Australia.
Over the years, Tensys have been involved in more than 50 major sporting facilities including Rothenbaum Hamburg, Waldstadion Frankfurt, Berlin Olympiastadion, Incheon, Busan, Daegu, , Nehru Commonwealth Games Stadium Delhi, Skilled and Metricon Carrara Stadiums Australia, BC Place Vancouver and the National Stadium Warsaw. Current project (under construction) in Australia is the lightweight roof structure for the Queensland State Velodrome in Brisbane.
Other iconic structures for which Tensys have provided engineering services include the Burj al Arab
Hotel facade in Dubai, the Wimbledon Centre Court retractable roof and a number of large scale installations for the sculptor Anish Kapoor.
The core engineering skills revolves around the development of appropriate forms and geometry, in the selection and application of appropriate materials and details, in the calculation of performance under environmental loading and in the generation of fabrication information.
Breaking ground with new materials and use of materials (from different industries) in a built environment/application are part of the practice’s specialisation.
Using these core skills and structural engineering background, we have ventured into aerospace world with Tensys Dynamics providing consulting services to the NASA long durations scientific balloon project. Working on behalf of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, it has also been involved in the analysis and pattering of all major hybrid airships constructed to date.
Our philosophy is to work collaboratively to develop elegant solutions.
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