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Festival Stage Collapse Disasters Prompts 2012 Seminar
Since the summer of 2011, with live event disasters being front-page news, such as at the Indiana State Fair, Pukklepop, Flaming Lips concert (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and the Ivete Sangalo concert (Sao Paolo, Brazil), public safety at events has become a massive talking point for the events and music industries.
In the context of this, Special Structures Lab (Sheffield UK), are holding a two-day seminar on examining large temporary structures, to take place at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Sheffield on March 28 and 29, 2012.
Steven Corfield of Serious Stages and Simon James of The Event Safety Shop have agreed to speak at the seminar.
Due to feedback from attendees, who have asked for a basic overview examining all temporary structures, large and small, this subject will also be included. Printed or electronic notes of the sessions will be issued as an aide memoir for the future.
Professor Aleksandar Pavic (Head, Vibration Engineering Section, University Of Sheffield and MD, Full Scale Dynamics Ltd) is co-hosting the event and will show the new in-situ structural monitoring procedures which are state-of-the-art worldwide and also discuss measures which may have an impact on the temporary structures industry in the future.
The seminar will interest event organisers, consulting engineers, local authority and inspection engineers, structure hire companies, event contractors, construction health and safety inspectors and consultants, design and construction engineers from industry who work on new construction, users of temporary structures for events and suppliers of construction equipment for scaffolding, forms, stages and work platforms. Stage hire companies may feel this does not concern them, but the reality is that the same principles apply to fabric covered frameworks whether it is called a stage or a frame tent or a dodgem track.
There is a special Early Bird offer â Â35 off the ticket price - and due to requests the organisers have agreed to extend this to the 17th February only.
You can register for the event at www.specialstructures.com or email seminar@specialstructures.com for more information
10th February 2012
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