Five major Pavilions - USA, UAE, Canada, Singapore and the China Information & Communications Pavilion are all featuring Milos products.
The Information & Communications Pavilion - Extending City Dreams is built by China Mobile and China Telecom, and utilizes cold water from the Expo site to regulate the indoor temperature, helping to reduce energy consumption and emissions. Most of the construction materials are recyclable and environmentally-friendly, and after dark, the pavilion's surface changes color. A variety of Milos products are used in this space showing the versatility of the range. All the indoor structures in here are supported with Milos which is hanging many production elements including frames with screens, curtains and drapes, lights and speakers.
The music-box-like Singapore Pavilion is a two-story structure with an Urban Symphony theme, inspired by the harmony of several elements in Singapore: progress and sustainability, urbanization and greenery, tradition and modernity and a cosmopolitan mix of residents living peacefully together. Milos' ever popular M290 Quatro trussing - a total of 97 metres - is used to create positions for sound, lighting and AV equipment.
The Canadian Pavilion - The Living City - again uses Milos' flexible M290 Quatro (QTU) trussing - 292mof it - plus CQUD1 half circle pieces, which are utilised to make up a 12.7m semi-circle, all of which facilitates the rigging of lighting and AV equipment.
The USA Pavilion is a massive grey steel structure designed to resemble an eagle stretching its wings in welcome. It features M290 Duo configured in two massive semi circles, each of 33m diameter.
The exterior of the UAE Pavilion is shaped like a giant modernist sand dune and occupies approximately 6000sq.m. Milos M290 is in action again here - both Quatro and Duo versions of this product - used as frames surrounding large projection screens.
Michal Zykan from Milos Czech Republic worked closely with Stephen Huang from Milos China to ensure that the delivery of all the required metalwork went smoothly as the pavilions were constructed.
He comments, "This is a very prestigious project in which to be involved, and as is often the case, timescale was the big challenge. It was also a great example of the Czech and Chinese offices working together to meet deadlines with demands of client and delivery in record time, and a great testament to the production capabilities of MILOS's Guangzhou manufacturing facility."
(Jim Evans)
