Based on Kinesys Libra components, ART monitors every production point rigged to a stage roof, ensuring the show stays safely in step with the structure's load capacity.
Roger Barrett, technical & commercial director at Star Events, comments, "By building the system into the roof supports rather than interfering with festival rigging, it enables the roof to double as a weighing machine, in real time.
"To ensure safety, we need to know not only what the weights are, but how they transfer into the structure and ART gives us that critical data."
The new CDM Regs are expected to clarify the responsibility on the promoter to prove a stage they have booked can safely support the production weight. Active Roof Technology will enable Star Events to give promoters that essential sign-off documentation regardless of the accuracy of the advance rigging plots.
(Jim Evans)
