Location: St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Architect: RSP Architects
Design Engineer: Blackwell Structural Engineers
Fabric Contractor: Birdair
We provided detailed design and fabric patterning for the 25,000 sq. ft. cover for a new ice-skating rink. Engineering addressed issues of potential ponding, heavy water runoff and large snow loads. A paper presented at the 2017 Munich Membranes conference describes details of the engineering.