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CX-TEND mesh is made from stainless steel wire rope
and stands for durability, 3D-flexibility, resistance to impact loads
and high aesthetic value for a long lifetime. The mesh is worldwide used
for applications like decoration, fall protections, green facades,
access prevention, bird protection mesh, balustrade in-fills, etc. - or even to create waterfalls and 3-dimensional zoo enclosures.
At Warsaw Train Station, design and security requirements demanded applying the mesh to cover external and interior parts of the main hall roof’s construction, for cladding of the steel sub-structure and as a bird protection, as well as on technical and ventilating platforms and air intakes. The project also included mesh covering of roof’s ventilating tower, shed for bicycles and balustrade in-fills next to technical platforms and maintenance pathways on the roof.
A big advantage of the X-Tend mesh is its
3-dimensional flexibility allowing installation on curvilinear surfaces
that are very characteristic for the Warsaw Eastern Station building,
which dates out of the 1960’s and is a piece of architecture to be
preserved and renovated.
X-TEND mesh is available with many
different mesh widths and a variety of wire rope diameter from 1mm to
4mm. Two different types of mesh were applied at Warsaw Eastern Train
Station: in order to cover the main hall’s curved roof construction, a
mesh with cable diameter 1,5mm and mesh width 40mm was used, to
act as ceiling decoration and cover of surfaces, and at the same time it
highlighted the roof’s construction, ventilation and technical
platforms and air intakes.
A mesh made of cable diameter 3mm and mesh width 160mm was used for protection and decoration applications on the ventilation tower and technical platform’s railing situated on the roof, outside the main hall.
Carl Stahl Tech Service sp. Z.o.o. contributed to the successful renovation of the protected Warsaw Eastern Train Station building by enhancing the building’s modern aspect, lightness and functionality by the use of X-TEND mesh. (on behalf of: Andrzej Skraba, M.Sc.Eng – president of Carl Stahl Tech Service sp. Z o.o.)
A façade facing with 1,500 square metres of X-TEND stainless steel cable mesh was installed at the new parking garage at the Sydney International Airport. Designed and mounted by our sales partner Ronstan, X-TEND was installed as a continuous surface over a length of 71 metres and 8 stories on the southern side of the building.
The region around Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England now boasts a new landmark. 3DReid Architect's innovative Air Traffic Control Tower at Newcastle International Airport is absolutely unique. X-TEND, by Carl Stahl, was used to create the transparent outer skin of this architecturally iconic building.
The unusual façade construction presented a particular challenge for the mesh and steel construction engineers. For the very first time, a three-dimensional curved mesh with a surface area of around 2,000 square metres and a mesh width of 40 millimetres was assembled as a second skin. The specialist planners from Officium were integrated in the planning team of architects and structural engineers and, together with Ove Arup, created a number of special solutions for this purpose. The transparent tower façade was assembled by the specialists from Carl Stahl using their very own assembly technology adhering to the very tight schedule dictated to them.
