Update (September 22, 2011)


Fab-Form Industries' Pre-manufactured Foundation

Recently, Fab-Form Industries did a first. They supplied the Econ Group with a pre-manufactured ICF foundation for a fully panelized home. This challenge required an accuracy of 1/8" or less. You can find a video and some photos here


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ICFF 2012

Second International Conference on Flexible Formwork, Bath UK

Site: http://people.bath.ac.uk/jjo20/icff/ICFF2012/Homepage.html

Important dates!

1st September 2011     Abstract submission deadline

20th October 2011   Final date for authors notification of acceptance

20th February 2012    Final date for submission of full papers for review. Authors must register.

20th April 2012    Submission of camera ready papers

27th June 2012    Conference opens




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We would like to add more papers and articles to this website! (see heading 'papers'.)

Please send us your interesting papers so we can publish them on this website.

The paper can be submitted by sending it to fabricforming@fabricforming.org

The V Conference on “Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures” (Structural Membranes 2011) will be organised on 5-7 October 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

The previous conferences of these series were held in Barcelona (Spain) on 30 June – 3 July 2003, in Stuttgart (Germany) on 2 - 4 October 2005, in Barcelona on 17 - 19 September 2007 and in Stuttgart (Germany) on 5 - 7 October 2009

 

Structural Membranes 2011 aims to be a forum for discussing recent progress and identifying future research directions in the field of textile composites and inflatable structures.

 

Plenary Lectures will be complemented by Invited Sessions organised by recognised experts in targeted research areas of particle-based techniques as well as by contributed papers received from the general Call for Papers.

 

The Invited Session 'Membrane Mould' will be organised by ir. A. Pronk (University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) member of ISOFF. Persons willing to join an Invited Session or willing to give a lecture about a specific topic are kindly requested to send their abstracts to the conference secretariat.

 

You can register at following website:

http://congress.cimne.com/membranes2011

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International Society of Fabric Forming (ISOFF)

The Society's focus is:

• Improving communication between all participants: researchers, architects, manufacturers, distributors and concrete contractors;
• Communicating to the world the commanding environmental benefits of fabric forming over rigid formwork;
• Developing new and innovative fabric forming solutions.