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Sapsis Rigging Moves with the Crystal Ball.
Sapsis Rigging provided rigging services (design, equipment, labour and supervision) for the 23rd Annual Mt Sinai Crystal Ball. The ball is the New York City hospital's largest fundraiser of the year. Not wishing to expose patients and staff to the H1N1 virus, the event was moved from its traditional location, the hospital lobby at 105th St and Park Avenue, to the Central Park Conservancy tent nearby in Central Park. The decision to make the move came only a day and a half before the load in was scheduled to begin.
Mike Sapsis, the SRI project manager for the event noted that "the problems we faced in moving to a different venue were compounded by the fact that we were no longer in a building but now in a tent. Not only did we have further to go to get the gear into the tent but also the allowable loads in the tent are very different from those in the building. And the suspension methods are also very different from one structure to the other. We re-designed the system on the fly, shifted equipment around as best as possible, added a couple of ground support systems and were good to go in time for the event."
19th May 2009
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