1. World Cup kick-off under amazing textile roof.
- Subjects
TEXTILES ,ROOFING materials ,STADIUMS ,WORLD Cup (Rugby football) ,POLYTEF ,GLASS fibers - Abstract
The article reports on the use of textile roofing for a stadium in Germany which will host the opening of the 2006 World Cup on June 9. The roof of the stadium cost €26 million and is made of white and translucent polytetrafluoroethylene/fiberglass membranes. The material used is named Duraskin which is supplied by Verseidag-Indutex. It is crack-resistant, water-proof and ultraviolet-proof. Acrylic tiles are sued to span a roof in sweeping structures held by steel masts. The skin of the material is called ethylene-tetraflourehtylene and is only 0.2 millimeter.
- Published
- 2006