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Total Solutions Pick Up the Challenge
Time after time, the Total Solutions Group demonstrates its versatility and ability to deliver innovative results for its clients.
When P & O were having their ship Ocean Village 2 refitted at Bremerhaven in Germany, Micha Bergese Productions, the company responsible for entertainment activities on board ship approached Total Solutions. “They required an outdoor structural framework for their acrobats and other performers to conduct their show on board ship,” said Total Solutions’ Mervyn Thomas.
Working closely with the designer, Ron Packman of Packman Lucas, Total Solutions manufactured a globe shaped structure that would be fixed on the top deck of Ocean Village 2. “This was a slightly unusual venture for us as we had to work under the close scrutiny of Lloyds Register who were responsible for signing off all our work from weld quality to exterior paint finish quality and everything in-between,” continued Thomas.
The structure was 12 metres high with four main curved trusses 12.7 wide at their equator. A curved triangular truss started as a taper from a 35mm thick base plate bolted to the ship’s top deck. At the top of the structure is a platform with a trap door. A personnel winch with wires passing through the inside of the truss via pulley diverters is used to lower and raise performers. The structure had a four-coat white ant-corrosion paint finish, applied by a specialist metal coating company before shipment to Germany.
“Our own staff supervised the final assembly on the quay, before the shipyard’s crane lifted the entire assembly up 14 stories to its required position,” said Thomas. “This was all achieved within a two-day ‘window’ allocated to us by the shipyard. A good performance all round,” concluded Thomas.
From start to finish the entire project was completed between January and Easter in time for the first voyage of the refitted ship. As always, Total Solutions was able to procure, build and deliver on time and on budget!
Meanwhile, a little further to the East, in Singapore to be precise, Total Solutions took up the challenge again by erecting two temporary structures for a number of different events. For CSP Productions, the company built a 10-tower curved roof system 25 metres wide x 17 metres deep x 16.5 metres high with 4 metre PA wings. This was for Singapore’s largest ever outdoor music festival in early August where many music industry legends performed including The Stranglers, Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy, MXPX and Cobra Starship to name but a few.
The main truss and roof components were configured using Serious Folding Truss and Extra Heavy Duty Truss. And a similar roof system but this time 50 metres deep was constructed for the Show Company for a venue for a networking party on 5th July held during the recent PALME exhibition in Singapore.
Both of these structures, although of a temporary nature, catered for the growing need in Singapore for large ‘marquee’ structures with high payload and high trim height for outdoor events.
http://www.totalsolutions-group.co.uk
9th August 2007
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