The Four Fridas - Bus & Tram Crash
Presented by the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
Mack & Mabel - Chichester Festival Theatre
Counterweighted Camera Boom
Mack & Mabel - Chichester Festival Theatre
Chekhovs - Chichester Festival Theatre
Hydraulic operatIon pop up wall
Guys & Dolls - Chichester Festival Theatre
Hydraulic Lifts operated by manual lever valve
High Society - The Old Vic
Hydraulic cylinder operated Raising Plinths, Table Lift & Scissor Lifts.
Car was free issued to us, and adapted to fit onto the truck.
Helion Monster's head was free issued to us, to be adapted to fit onto the 'hydraulic arm'
Ghost Stories - Revolving Truck
Steel construction base frame. Shaft driven polyurethane tyred wheels to offer silent forward & backward movements whist the car can also rotate on an internally geared slew ring with a pinion drive. Hydraulically operated pivoting arm for Monsters Head movement
Lumiere Light Festival in Durham November 2013 - Elephant Arch aka 'Elephantastic' on Elvet Bridge
Steel frame construction
8.5 mtr wide x 5 mtr deep x 10 mtr high
Internal shaped arched wall frames
Internal braces
Screen frames with tie bars and masking
Ridge beam and side walls.
Structural calculations and wind loadings was carried out to meet safety requirements.
Windmill - Royal Opera House
Overall height 9.6mtr
Truck base sits on Triple swivel castors
Sails mounted on a slew ring which is driven by a geared pinion drive, powered by a motor with variable speed controller.
Sails originally made from light weight mild steel tube then a second version was made even lighter from Aluminium.
Seating Blocks - Chichester Minerva Theatre
Steel frame construction
5 no. tiered platforms
Handrails with knee rails
Access through under rear tier of seating
Plywood tops and fascias supplied and fitted by Weld-Fab.
Anish Kapoor:
Symphony for a Beloved Sun
Overall height 15mtr. 10 mtr x 500mm deep disc
constructed from a series of curved
trapezoidal trusses with internal bracing
which is lifted by trussed support legs
Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall Berlin
10 mtr x 500mm deep disc constructed from a series of curved trapezoidal trusses with horizontal and vertical internal braces.
Trussed support legs and brace to support the 10 mtr disc
Anish Kapoor: Symphony for a Beloved Sun. Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall Berlin
Anish Kapoor: Symphony for a Beloved Sun. Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall Berlin
Royal Opera House: Nabucco
Raked main floor 15x12 mtrs
Floor tops with a recessed section for sand, floor supported by trussed frames up and downstage complete with across stage gate frames for rigidity.
Anti-rake truck to suit Houston showing
2 No. Side Wall Trucks 8x11 mtrs wide each compromising of:-
Base trucks with triple swivel castors
Tower support structure for cladding
Access ladders adapted into towers
Bridges and LX bars
Anti-rake tower extensions for Milan showing
Rihanna for River Island
Rotating 'R' Light Box
'R' frame fabricated from light weight ERW tube with 1.5mm thick steel plate backing.
Variable speed reversing inverter controller with ramp speeds adjustable two position limit box for end of travel.
Motor unit mounted upstage on unistrut with chain operation of vertical shaft.
Youtube video: skip to 8:00 minutes
Angled Ball
Constructed mostly from laser cut profiles and supported by a heavy duty central spine.
Manufactured and assembled in our factory, paint finish & installation by others
Location: Ikea Wembley London
Anish Kapoor: My Red Homeland
Steel frame construction 12m dia.
Drive motor unit with pinion to give a
max speed of 1 rev per hour
Central slew ring and radial arm
Support wheels and drive unit frame
Shaped base frame
Profiled steel racks fixed to base frame
Slip ring system for motor power feed.
Les Troyens - ROH
Construction from various radius tubes to form the shape of the horses head & body.
See the horse in action, click on the video link below.
Shrek The Musical
Hydraulic Rope Bridge
Raising and lowering
operated from control panel offstage.
I Am The Wind - Young Vic
Tilting & Rotating Platform
Operated using a joystick, the platform
features double acting hydraulic rams to
give the tilting movement,
while rotating on a geared slew ring.
The Platform is fully welded
and is submerged in water
King's Speech Double Ring Revolve
Steel frame construction
6.6 mtr Outer Ring Revolve
5 mtr Inner Revolve
2 No. Belt drive units complete with encoder feed-back for positioning
6.6 mtr Outer Ring. 5 mtr Inner Revolve.
Separate Drive units operating each revolve
Separate Drive units operating each revolve