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MILOS Trussing at the New FuturShow Station
A MILOS M950 trussing system has been permanently installed into the newly revamped FuturShow Station venue in Casalecchio di Reno near Bologna, Italy.
The building is under new management of the Sabatini Group and home to the Virtus Bologna A Series basketball team, who play all their home matches there. The Sabatini Group also plan to expand the general use of the venue - which can hold up to 13,000 people using mobile grandstands - to host major concerts, shows, conferences and other live sporting events. This necessitated the need for a flexible all-purpose trussing system from which to hang sound, lighting and AV equipment.
As this was such a high profile project, Bologna-based Decima Italia designed, supplied and installed the three trussing grids themselves. The main one measures 22 x 20 metres and has an impressive weight loading of 40 tonnes, while the two side grids each measure 12 by 4 metres, with a weight loading of 8 tonnes.
Decima Italia's Fabio Anselmi explains that they decided on the M950 trussing because they required a system with some serious weight loading, and this is the latest, largest and heaviest duty in the current MILOS range. M950 is specifically designed for maximum loading and free-span applications, and redefines the rules that `big is slow` using MILOS proven QuickTruss technology for extremely fast assembly.
"This was the best and most appropriate trussing for the application," states Anselmi. "It offers strength and introduces great technical versatility to the FuturShow Station."
The trussing was delivered to Decima Italia direct from the MILOS manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic, where all components are made using the highest specification materials including 60 x 6 mm main tubes and 32 x 3mm bracing spars. The project was handled for MILOS by Milan Kolousek.
The trussing is all painted black, and rigged on a total of 28 motors for easy rigging and maintenance.
"As always, the service from MILOS was quick and very efficient and it's a pleasure to deal with them," adds Anselmi.
17th December 2008
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