In order to spread the load equally across the rope sup­port struc­ture, ini­tially all the con­struc­tion ma­ter­ial was de­pos­ited in stor­age nets in the inner ring of the roof struc­ture. Fol­low­ing this, the 112 pan­els were in­stalled one after the other on five work plat­forms, which were con­stantly moved in the dir­ec­tion of the as­sembly. The 3,3 km joints were then closed using hot air weld­ing.

In order to real­ise the mem­brane roof ex­ten­sion of the Mer­cedes Benz Arena, the Mem­brantean in­stalled the en­tire new rope sup­port sys­tem in­clud­ing 40 pneu­matic cush­ions, 64 mem­brane arches and 40 roof sec­tions. The inner rope ring, weigh­ing 30 t, with ra­dial axes, was lif­ted and bolted-in by hand dur­ing a 12-hour-long lift­ing ac­tion. The rope con­struc­tion, in­clud­ing the steel sup­ports and arches, weighs 70 t and in­cludes more than 1500 metres of rope. The covered area of the inner ring is 6,5 metres wide on the grand­stands and 15 m on the curves. The Mem­branteam also in­stalled four mod­ern light plat­forms and two LED video pan­els. Ex­ist­ing mem­branes had already been re­placed, as com­mis­sioned by the com­pany Taiyo Europe GmbH.

For this con­tract, our scope of ser­vices in­cluded the in­stall­a­tion of the inner mem­brane, the in­stall­a­tion of work plat­form nets for other trades, as well as the in­stall­a­tion of the steel arches!

At temperatures from -10°C to +30°C on construction site have worked up to 55 man from Mem­branteam. Des­pite the ex­treme weather con­di­tions on the pen­in­sula and the winds from the Caspian Sea, as well as the dead­line pres­sure due to the up­com­ing ESC 2012, the Mem­branteam was able to suc­cess­fully com­plete the pro­ject task in ad­vance of the planned dead­line. Fol­low­ing test in­stall­a­tions in Ank­ara, the Mem­branteam ini­tially began in wintry Baku with a team of 20 and then con­tinu­ously in­creased this num­ber to a total of 3 teams. Two clos­ure flaps were heat-sealed around the hall and bon­ded with alu­minium com­pos­ite sheets. 2 cranes and 12 risers were used to in­stall the mem­brane. We were also in­volved in the elec­trical in­stall­a­tion, the roof drain­age, dry walling, fire pre­ven­tion, the in­stall­a­tion of the panel façade and the steel con­struc­tion!

As spe­cial­ists for in­stall­a­tion in loc­a­tions that are dif­fi­cult to ac­cess, we in­stalled the 236 roof sec­tions of the Bay Arena in just eight weeks. 
The steel sup­port­ing struc­ture was pre-as­sembled on the ground by our spe­cial­ist staff and then covered with Mak­rolon, in col­lab­or­a­tion with our cli­ent. Fol­low­ing this, the sec­tions were in­stalled into the rope con­struc­tion in the roof by our pro­fes­sional in­dus­trial climbers. In ad­di­tion to this main as­sembly work, we were also re­spons­ible for the in­stall­a­tion of the drain­age chan­nels as well as the gut­ter heat­ing.