The late Zvi Horovitz established Federal-Fabrics-Fibers with his wife, Bracha Horovitz, in 1991, and NSRDEC's collaboration with Horovitz resulted in key innovations. Natick has been improving and perfecting airbeam technology since the 1970s and began working with Federal-Fabrics-Fibers in the early 1990s. With airbeams, they'll bend and pop back up. "If you're in a metal frame tent, you could have metal falling down on you or what's stored in the tent. "It's safer than a metal frame tent in a storm," said Hampel.
NSRDEC, a pioneer in airbeam technology (and shelters in general), guides industry partners with its vast knowledge of military requirements and military textiles to oversee the technology development, the results of which have included airbeam-based military medical shelters, chem-bio protective shelters, aircraft shelters and expeditionary shelters. "Natick has the best understanding of where military tents need to go in the future, and they are able to help support small, new tech companies with projects that move tents closer to Natick's vision."įederal-Fabrics-Fibers of Lowell, Massachusetts, has also been involved in key textile technology collaborations with NSRDEC, including the airbeams used in the Pvilion tent. "I think Natick may be the best new tent technology incubator in the world," said Dalland. Pvilion has been involved in the development of high-pressure airbeams for more than 20 years. Pvilion has collaborated with Natick in three areas, including General Purpose Tents, Flexible PV Fabric Tents, and Airbeam-Support Tents. Pvilion began working on various types of shelters with Natick in the late 1980s. "Basically, with this, you just unroll it, inflate, and it stands up on its own.
"Since it's on a rooftop, you can't lay out many large pieces of framework," said Hampel. Stamford Tent installed the shelter at Carnegie Hall. The company enlisted Federal Fabrics-Fibers to fabricate the airbeams and Anchor Industries to fabricate the fabric top. Pvilion designed, engineered and produced the shelter, which is the first practical and affordable rental tent using high-pressure airbeams. "It shows the cost is coming down so it can be used in rental tents, and that's a really big commercial application." "This was really an eye-opening demonstration of what this technology can do in the rental tent industry," said Jean Hampel, team leader of the Fabrics Structures Team, part of NSRDEC's Expeditionary Basing and Collective Protection Directorate, and a longtime expert in military airbeam shelters. "This represents the first time that high-pressure airbeam technology has crossed over from military applications, associated with Natick, to commercial applications." "The special event tent that Pvilion designed and produced for the rooftop of Carnegie Hall in midtown Manhattan uses airbeams developed by Federal-Fabrics-Fibers for its structural supports instead of aluminum frames," said Dalland. Todd Dalland, co-founder and president of Pvilion of Brooklyn, New York, designed the groundbreaking rental shelter for the Carnegie Hall rooftop event. Many of the technologies developed by NSRDEC and industry for the military have directly and indirectly resulted in commercial applications. The Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, NSRDEC, along with its industry partners, has a long history of developing the very best shelters to protect the nation's Soldiers and their equipment. Large shelters and shelter complexes can be set up quickly and with fewer personnel than metal frames. The airbeams come in small, lightweight packages. The arches replace metal frames in tents and can be deployed rapidly. The technology has made its debut in a new incarnation as a part of a surprisingly luxurious rental tent used for a gala on the rooftop of Carnegie Hall.Īirbeam technology consists of inflatable, high-pressure arches. 26, 2015) - The wide-reaching, overarching success of airbeam technology is music to Natick's ears. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S. 1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – (Photo Credit: U.S.
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