Ready for our curtain call! Grand Valley State University will be welcoming a new president next month with new curtains in the Kirkhoff Center’s largest conference room. Flyhouse installed the two panels which measured 10’6” tall and 36’ wide each, for a total of about 70’ of (IFR) Inherently Flame Resistant fabric Charisma, which never need future […]
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Rigging Terms: Planner’s Pocket Dictionary
Reflected ground plan? Allowable load? Fly? Any of these sound familiar to you? If you are a rigger, they are commonly used terms. If you are an event planner, you probably are looking them up right now. Well, you don’t have to go far because we can help you out. Flyhouse appeared inside a recent […]
Flyhouse Installations
Each day it is safe to say Flyhouse is somewhere installing a number of different items for our projects. In this video, we emphasize our more unique motorized curtain projects including at the more than 500-feet wide marine-grade curtain at the Shedd Aquarium. To view this video on YouTube, please click here.
The Effects of Kinks on Wire Ropes
Wire rope is the lifeblood of the entertainment industry and we use miles and miles of it. At certain points, the wire ropes will get slight bends or severe kinks. Does it have an impact on the performance? Flyhouse tested three different scenarios to see what would happen. Click here to watch this video on YouTube
Behind the Scenes: Shop Fabrication
There are many phases of a project before we can call it complete. Bidding, drawings, submittals, fabrication – the list continues. One of the most important aspects is what happens in the fabrication shop before the trucks get loaded to head to the installation site. Here’s a small taste of what our shop team does […]
Chicago Rigging and Outdoor Structures Workshop Day 2
Day 2 of the The Chicago Rigging and Outdoor Structures Workshop featured Jeff Reder of Clark Reder Engineering taking everyone through outdoor structure engineering principles and standards. A lot of information but each item necessary for the safety of your structure.
