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New Roof for MTV Awards in Rome
In front of the Coliseum in Rome a new roof is being built to host the MTV Awards. The event takes place on Thursday, 18th November and the whole show is currently in preparation.
The construction used for the new roof system has been manufactured by Prolyte for Ital Stage. Ital Stage is a major customer of Decima, the Prolyte distributor in Italy, and they already own several Prolyte systems. The cooperation between the three companies has proved to work extremely well.
The latest system Prolyte and Ital Stage have developed is based on the standard B100RV truss and the new series of C52T towers. As the stage is based on standard elements, it is not only a very economic system - it is also very easy to build, as hardly any special parts are needed. In fact, the whole project was designed and developed within two weeks.
The roof is constructed from five arches made of B100RV truss. A hinge in the bottom connectors and a pen-fork connection with a spreader plate in the top connections gives the complete span required and two steel wires per span absorb the arch thrust of the arch. The arches are connected to a standard sleeve block for the B100RV truss, which runs up and down the C52T tower.
The total allowable loading of the complete roof is an 18 ton uniformly distributed load. If needed, sound wings can be added to the system. The width of the stage is 24 m and the depth 16m. The stage is about 16 m high on its lowest point and has an overall height of 18,4 m.
Eminem will take to the stage at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards, as will the Beastie Boys, Usher, Franz Ferdinand, Nelly, The Hives, Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. More artists are yet to be announced.
16th November 2004
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