Birdair Awarded Staten Island Children’s Museum Contract

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 30, 2011 – Birdair, Inc., a heading specialty executive of tensile structures of all sizes via a world, has been awarded a design-build agreement for a wire and fabric thatch complement of a 2,200 square-foot freestanding tensile structure during a Staten Island Children’s Museum in Staten Island, NY.

The new addition, called a Meadow Structure, facilities a translucent, photovoltaic fabric roof that collects solar appetite to energy low voltage lighting. Birdair has been hired to pattern and fashion a 3,000 square-foot tensile roof featuring Birdair’s steel wire systems and PTFE, a Teflon®-coated woven fiberglass membrane. In addition, Birdair will be providing technical organisation during installation.

“This is a initial plan of a kind that combines thin-film photovoltaic panels and Teflon-coated fabric membrane,” pronounced Brian Dentinger of Birdair, Inc. “We designed a complement that supports a photovoltaic panels and allows a particular panels to be private but unfortunate a roof fabric.”

Upon execution after this year, a Meadow Structure will be used year-round as a flexible, weather-protected outside entertainment and module space. Located on a drift of Staten Island’s famous Snug Harbor Cultural Center, a Museum is New York’s usually indoor-outdoor interactive museum. Since 1976, a Staten Island Children’s Museum has supposing interactive exhibits and artistic workshops for children of all ages to try a arts, sciences and humanities.

In further to Birdair, a plan group includes Marpillero Pollak Architects of New York City, Weidlinger Engineers of New York City, and Power Film Solar of Ames, Iowa providing a PV panels.

To date, Birdair has finished work on some-more than 1,200 tensile design installations worldwide. To learn more, revisit www.birdair.com.

Teflon® is a purebred heading of E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, Delaware.