Mega Milos roof covers Timeshift Bucharest
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The festival was a four-day event held from 20-23 July and featured a total of four stages, with the Milos MR5 roof covering the main stage. Featuring international artists such as David Guetta, DJ Snake and Bloc Party, Milos helped Timeshift ensure its mission of providing the means for its audience to “step into another dimension”.
The client for this project was A.S.C. Systems Sound & Light, based in Bucharest. A.S.C. Systems has been in operation for 17 years and is one of the leading rental companies in Romania for stage, light & sound equipment. Their primary goal is to provide customers with solutions that meet their budget, without sacrificing quality, and delivering technical solutions that meet the highest standards.
When asked about his choice of the Milos M5 roof, A.S.C. co-owner Alex Oprita answered, ““We’ve been working with Milos for the past 10 years and that’s why we chose them. They have good products.” When speaking about value for money, Alex said, “It’s what we were hoping for.”
The highly customized MR5 roof was an intensive project that made full use of Area Four Industries’ technical sales service. Norbert Tripp, Area Four Industries technical director, carried out the engineering design for the roof and static calculations, including the substructure. At the beginning of the project, members of the A.S.C. team met with Norbert Tripp and Milan Kolousek (Milos sales representative) to define their requirements for the roof and agree on the most important details.
Norbert also worked closely with the team at German scaffolding company Layher, which provided the scaffold and stage decks for the roof. The Layher stage was an integral part of the roof and it was crucial to work closely with the Layher team to carry out all necessary engineering calculations.
The final structure delivered to A.S.C. was a highly customized Milos MR5 Heavy-Duty pitched roof measuring 31 x 18m and mounted on a 1.8m high Layher Allround Stage. It had a clearance height of 11m and featured a cantilever of approx. 2m in front and .7m in the rear of the stage. There were a total of six Milos M390-QTKT towers on the main stage, and two M390-QTKT towers supporting each side house. Canvas sheets mounted on 129mm kedar profiles covered the top of the roof and canvas mounted on 252 mm Kedar profiles served as the three walls.
The ability of the Timeshift festival to have its audience “step into another dimension” required the Milos roof structure to carry a large amount of light and sound equipment. Therefore, Norbert designed the roof to handle a 24,000 kg uniformly distributed load (UDL) on the horizontal beams above the main stage, and an additional 7,000 kg for PA and LED-screens in each side house. The total load was 38,000 kg.
To meet the Romanian wind standards, the structure was designed to withstand maximum gust speeds of 30.3m/s (109 km/h), which is more than European standards require. To the joy of concert organisers, the weather was perfect over all four days and the roof was not exposed to extreme conditions.
Norbert Tripp, Milan Kolousek, Lukas Zeman (Milos Technical Department) and Ales Roucek (Area Four Industries marketing manager) supported the roof build-up, which took a total of four-and-a-half days to complete.
(Jim Evans)
