Small damage to the air dome will not affect the safety of the building itself. Timely repair can solve the problem.

If a large hole is punched (the area is more than 1m2), the air pressure inside the building will change, the control system will alarm, the management personnel will evacuate the building in time, and repair the damaged place, generally 30 minutes to an hour can be repaired. Building safety will not be affected.

American standard: when all doors are opened, the average height of the air-dome building falls to 2.5 meters for no less than 30 minutes, giving people enough time to escape.

Our own example: Foxconn plant project, all the inflatable equipment stopped, all the doors do not open, the dome fell to the height of 5 meters is about 4 hours.

The building quotation requires the owner to provide the following information: site area, use of the air dome, permanent or seasonal, grade of membrane materials, internal configuration: heating, air conditioning, lighting, insulation cotton, number of emergency doors, number of revolving doors, etc.

As it is supported by the difference of internal and external air pressure, the air dome cannot be made into any shape. The most common shape is rectangular, oval or circular (air dome is supported by air, and there is no column or beam inside, so its top is not angular, it is in arc shape).

It can also be made into a single layer, such as coal shed and ordinary factory building, the double-layer insulation effect will be better, at the same time, it can be filled with insulation cotton between the two layers of dome. The third floor can completely eliminate the hidden danger of cold bridge, and has an absolute advantage in snow and ice sports.

As a building with high requirements on air tightness, the airdome structure does not have too many entrances and exits, which is not suitable for large flow of people and intensive activities in a long time, but suitable for the training hall.

If you need build large venues, the air dome building needs to be integrated with traditional architecture, such like revolving door emergency door need stand part in traditional architectural design, the air dome can be used as a rooftop, greatly reduced the investment for stadium. We once worked in Hunan Li County stadium project comparison, using air dome roof not only half reduced the construction cost, but also the future of energy consumption is reduced by half.

Suitable for large space requirements, but do not need to be hung on the top of the plant machine type. Such as warehouse or electronic plant, etc.

Air dome has a cost advantage in constant temperature and humidity of clean workshop. Due to air dome characteristics: Indoor positive pressure. That it is difficult for particulate matter from outdoor air to enter the indoor environment. It can easily achieve 100,000-grade or even 10,000-grade ground cleaning by adding primary, medium and high efficiency filter sections in our mechanical units as required. Even, we still have cost benefits that traditonal construction can not compare with. 

Yes. We have a lot of cases.

The theoretical maximum width of the air dome building can reach 180 meters, while the actual maximum span of the air dome building is 110 meters of "Shen Hua Ba Meng" project, with the longest length unlimited. The minimum height must be 30% of the width. And the maximum height shall not exceed 50% of the width. The minimum height and width ratio are primarily concerned with snow removal and wind load reduction, while the maximum height and width ratio is primarily concerned with the overall design of the building. In other words, to satisfy the height of 50 meters, the width of the building must not be less than 100 meters.

Generally speaking, those with a span of more than 40 meters and a floor area of more than 2,000 square meters have economic advantages. Furthermore, the larger the span and the larger the volume, the more obvious the cost advantage of the airdome structure.

Pervious to light rate should inspect different membrane material, use pervious to light rate big membrane material, do not need electric power illume during the day, but pervious light rate is bigger, membrane material suffers the erosion of ultraviolet ray more fierce, which will be shorten the service life of airdome from1/2 to 1/3.

Transparent membrane has a degree of transmittance, the manufacturing cost is slightly lower than the opaque membrane, and during the day can save the energy used for lighting. However, due to the erosion of ultraviolet rays, the service life of the transparent membrane is shorter than that of the opaque membrane. In addition, partial light penetrate into the air dome building, which will accelerate the rise of internal temperature in summer and cause waste of energy consumption. We suggest that if the construction of seasonal air dome in the northern region, we can consider the use of transparent membrane.

The Thermal Insulation coefficient of the double-layer with thermal insulation air dome building is similar to that of the R24 thermal insulation cotton building.

Several forms of our Air Dome:

Single-layer: R=1.6

Double-layer transmission: R=3.4

Light transmission of three layers: R=8

Double insulation: R=12

Three-layer insulation: R=30,

In the stadium, if the light is directly on the court, it will be more dazzling, and the light reflected from the membrane will spread out, making the lighting even and softer. Our lighting design is designed according to different stadiums, different sports technology.

No, what we need is a constant differential pressure. Generally, we do not advocate repeatedly starting and stopping the inflatable motor, which will cause high energy consumption and reduce the service life of the motor. We usually use frequency conversion design, in different pressure requirements corresponding to different motor frequency, so as to achieve the purpose of energy saving.

R-plus "Thermal Insulation system fills the special reserved space between the outer membrane and the inner lining with fiberglass thermal insulation cotton, greatly reducing the energy consumption of heating and cooling for building. The system uses a ground ventilation system that integrates Fresh Air, cooling, and inflation into a single duct. The R-PLUS system also reduces the impact of ultraviolet radiation on stadium workers in the warmer south, and reduces heating costs in the cooler north.

For example: an 10000m2 indoor soccer fields, adopting air dome structure only need 70 tons of cold air conditioning, it can achieve to control the indoor temperature 28 ℃ in summer cooling requirements, much less than the air conditioning preparation specifications of traditional architecture. If we change to other building forms of the same volume, the air conditioning professional company believes that at least more than 400 tons of cold air conditioning is needed, which also reflects the energy-saving characteristics of air dome from another perspective.

Considering that the load-bearing membrane of the roof are difficult to be burned, the fire resistance grade of the project is determined to be the 3rd level, which is equivalent to the brick-wood structure composed of the wooden roof and the brick wall. The Chinese standard for (GB 50016-2006) requires that the fire prevention zone should be less than 1200m2 and the evacuation distance should be less than 20m. If the automatic fire extinguishing system is installed, the maximum allowable building area of the fire prevention zone can be increased to 2400m2.

In contrast to conventional buildings, air dome buildings generate an uplift force, so the fixed design of airdome buildings will vary with different wind speeds. In the wind speed is relatively large areas such as Hong Kong, the typhoon frequent areas such as Florida have air dome architecture, without any problems, so, our air dome structures are able to resist heavy wind, when strong wind comes, should be timely according to the air dome user management manual to guide to the inside of the air pressure appropriately adjusted.

PS: The airdome without our unique patented Bias-Harness Cable Net System is less wind - resistant.

The ventilation frequency of the air dome building is set by our years of experience, so that users can be very comfortable inside the air dome, because there is fresh air coming in constantly. The number of air changes per hour is as high as 6-16 times, which ensures the absolute freshness of the air in the stadium (the number of air changes in ordinary indoor sports venues is 2-4 times/hour). We can increase the number of ventilation according to the customer's requirements, but don't forget that increasing the number of ventilation will also increase the energy consumption.

Permanent airdome can have insulation cotton, heating and air conditioning. There is no insulation cotton in seasonal air dome, only heating. And the rest is the same.

Seasonal air dome is used in a certain time of year commonly, disassemble then store, the same time of the following year installs again. Most of the users who choose seasonal air dome live in cold and snowy winter and cannot exercise outdoors. It is sunny in summer and cool in areas with long sunshine. The seasonal air dome installed around November every year and disassembled around may of the following year. This air dome has heating, but no insulation cotton, will lead to the loss of energy. And there will be an annual cost of disassembly and storage. As a result of continuous disassembly, the life of the membrane will also have some impact.

The permanent air dome is the all-weather building running all year, equipped with heating and air conditioning, all year round to maintain the most comfortable temperature inside the air dome. Also equipped with insulation cotton, improving energy efficiency and saving cost.

Compared with seasonal air dome, permanent one may be more expensive than seasonal one in the early stage, but in terms of long-term benefits, permanent air dome is better than seasonal air dome.

The operation of the air dome is controlled by the central control system, and the proportion of manual maintenance is very small. Unless the air dust pollution is particularly serious, it is usually washed by natural rain water. The most important maintenance work is to pay attention to the daily weather conditions and make appropriate adjustments to the air pressure inside the air dome building. In heavy snow, pay attention to the absence of snow around the air dome, etc. One trained and responsible air dome operator are enough. Thus maintenance costs are almost zero.

If the owner's daily maintenance is proper, the service life can reach 20-30 years.

The guarantee policy of air dome building is divided into two parts: the warranty period of all mechanical units is 1 year. For the membrane part, if it's regular, we offer a 10-year commitment, and for TEDLAR, we offer a 15-year commitment.

After the disassembly of the air dome building will generally roll into a bundle, placed on the card board, stored in a dry and cool place can be.

There is some relationship between the installation time and the size of the building. Generally, it takes 7-10 days for the air dome building of 1,000-3,000m2, 10-14 days for the air dome building of more than 3,000m2, and about 20 days for the air dome building of more than 1,000 m2. If the installation process is responsible, the construction period may be extended appropriately.

Compared with conventional buildings, the requirement of air dome building’s foundation is much simpler.  Generally speaking, the owner is required to pour a ring of concrete ground beam around the site and embed the anchorage parts in the ground beam.

Generally speaking, air dome buildings have no special requirements for soil quality, because compared with other conventional buildings, air dome buildings mainly consider upward force rather than downward pressure. For different projects, we will provide the uplift force requirements of the building for the owner according to the climate, wind force and the air dome size itself, so as to help the owner verify whether the foundation treatment can meet the uplift force requirements.

There are two main methods of foundation anchorage: 1 temporary anchorage 2 Angle steel anchorage. Generally, we use the air closed Angle steel anchoring system, because it can effectively prevent the loss of air inside the membrane, save energy consumption, and evenly distribute the rising force of the air dome around the site, which is convenient to install.

The original foundation anchorage system is embedded in concrete. Once the air dome building moves, the original foundation anchorage parts cannot be used any more, but the Angle steel presser and steel cable can be used 100%.

When adding a layer of air dome to the roof, we must know the structure drawing of the building to determine whether the building has enough anti-rising force for the air dome, and determine the most appropriate location of the ground anchor point of the air dome. There are no special requirements for the top roof.

The connection between air dome building and other buildings is achieved by using a closed air passage and two closed doors. No special requirements for other buildings.

The temperature inside the air dome can be set to the most comfortable degree according to the requirements of users. Generally, the internal temperature is 18-20 degrees in winter and 24-26 degrees in summer. It can also be adjusted according to the specific requirements of the owner. The air dome building temperature can be set will be to save energy mode when no one in it. Air dome building cannot control humidity itself, but because of the ventilation system, ventilation frequency of flash air is high, so the inner will not be too dry feeling. To control the humidity in the building, it can be achieved by adding humidity control machine.

The shell of the air film building is made of PVC material with strong corrosion resistance and weather resistance, which will not be affected by high temperature or humid climate. The company has built air dome buildings in the Las Vegas desert above 40 degrees and in Alaska below -40 degrees below zero, showing the strong weather resistance of air dome buildings. We use special membrane in the extreme cold no man's land in Russia, which can be used normally at minus -50 degrees.

The impact of tennis and golf on the membrane will not affect the air dome. However, there will be some stains on the membrane. For good look we usually install a protective net at one end of the golf driving range to avoid the above situation.

Only our air dome has the unique patented cable system to ensures the stability and safety of the air dome. See answers to additional questions for details.

Thermal insulation, improving energy efficiency, reducing operating costs.

Since the inner membrane can penetrate the sound below 60 decibels, the thermal insulation cotton is also a good sound-absorbing material, and the sound reflection in the stadium or workshop can be avoided.

There are two kinds of insulation materials: Fiberglass Insulation cotton and aluminum platinum +EPE

Fiberglass insulation cotton is usually 76-80 mm thick.

Thickness of aluminum foil +EPE: less than 10mm suitable for the membrane with high humidity.

When the membrane material part is made, a space filled thermal insulation cotton will be reserved when the inner and outer membrane materials are stitched together. In this space, a nylon rope will be placed in advance. When installing on site, using nylon rope to pull the insulation cotton into the reserved space.

It depends mainly on the local climate. If it is in the cold region, the summer temperature is not very high, and inside the air dome has a good ventilation frequency of fresh air, it should not be very hot. So, in order to save money, you can use it without air conditioning. However, based on our years of experience, we always recommend air conditioning for any permanent air dome buildings. This will ensure that in any external temperature conditions, can provide customers with a comfortable sports environment, improving the grade of the owners’ sports venues.

Once there is damage in airdome,  the air pressure inside the dome will change, the building control system will be alarmed . Also, we suggest our airdome maintenance personnel to inspect the surrounding area of the air dome every day.

First, we need to explain the principle of airdome safety:

As a flexible building, airdome is strongly immune to earthquakes and other external forces. However, it is also vulnerable to strong winds and snowstorms. Under the combined action of wind and snow, snow tends to gather at a small place, forming the "bag-effect" called in the membrane industry, which leads to structure collapse.

In order to avoid the "bag-effect", it needs to increase the internal pressure of the membrane, which leads the membrane becomes rigid. However, the pressure inside the membrane is not infinite, and it is easy to reach the bearing limit of the membrane material, which requires the steel cable to bear the force. However due to the lack of coverage in the four corners of the air dome building by vertical and horizontal steel cables, the barrel effect is formed, thus the internal air pressure cannot be improved. Therefore, the "bag-effect" cannot be effectively prevented.

Another important role of bias-harness cable net system is to maintain the stability of the air dome building. Since the internal pressure cannot be increased without steel cables, it will swing hardly in strong wind. The displacement of the air dome can reach more than 22m, Bias-harness cable net system does not rely on membrane material force but the cables, from which the pressure inside the membrane can rise, buildings become rigid, at the same time our cable system of the overall design consideration is under whole outside force, greatly improve the stability of the building. Mostly under the largest wind load, the biggest displacement of air dome is not more than 10cm, which is hard to see by eye.

We have been trying to reach the goal which is to reduce the maintenance workload and artificial reason affect the service life of air dome and security, since equipment maintenance and maintenance considered important in use. Due to our R&D team efforts, we have developed a lot of traditional technique, such as: we changed the belt drive to no spiral transmission to reduce the accidents caused by the quality problem of the belt or belt off accidents. Our fans and motors also use maintenance-free bearings throughout their lives, no need for monthly lubrication, which greatly extends the service life of the equipment and creates more value for the owners.

As a workshop, air dome building has the following advantages:

A. large space, large span and high utilization rate.

B. extremely low cost to achieve constant temperature, humidity, cleanliness and other indicators, and obvious energy saving in use.

C. convenient for relocation and construction.

Only when the landfill is constructed with air dome can indoor operation be realized and relocation in the landfill area be realized.

a. direct heating form of natural gas combustion furnace, features: low cost, high thermal efficiency, good heating effect, recommended in the cold north.

b, heating and cooling pump air conditioning: the effect is good in the south China, however if temperature below zero, heating efficiency is greatly reduced. Not recommended in the cold area.

c. Municipal hot water or boiler: projects with low cost, medium thermal efficiency, must have municipal hot water or boiler infrastructure such as north China can be considered.

d. Unconventional methods such as geothermal, solar energy and mobile heating are difficult for owners to adopt due to the large initial investment.

We can achieve the purification effect of indoor air by adding sterilization section in the mechanical unit. The ultraviolet sterilization equipment of our partner UVDI in the United States can kill influenza, SARES and other highly infectious viruses 100%. And the initial investment is not high, the equipment in schools, kindergartens, senior clubs and other places widely used.

Air dome building has a broad application prospect in the coal industry.

Firstly, according to the current situation, both open pit mines and well mining require short construction period and low operation cost. In addition, overproduction is common in coal mines, and the actual service life is much lower than the design life. After that, idle ground buildings will cause great waste. However, these requirements fully conform to the advantages of air dome construction: construction period is very short, low operating costs, and can be relocated.

Secondly, the cost of foundation treatment should account for 1/4 to 1/3 of the total cost of reinforced concrete building.

Based on the comprehensive comparison of the above ground and below ground cost, air dome building has economic advantages.

In addition, the biggest advantage of air dome building in the open pit mine is that the air dome building can be built on the side of the pit, or even on the wide steps and the bottom of the pit. Partial ground collapse has no impact on the safety of the air dome building. Office, bath, canteen, maintenance can be used air dome solutions, and the sealing and positive pressure can ensure indoor clean. In this way, the construction investment can be recovered through the nearby management, maintenance and refueling. If the mining area changes, the air dome building can also move with it.

Compare our air dome to the others:

1. Membrane force in different ways: our membrane’s force is transmitted through the cable to the base, the force of the other air domes are on membrane material, that is to say, the membrane material is always under great force in the whole life cycle. Our membrane almost no force, mainly by steel cable, so that the service life of the membrane is greatly extended.

For example, at the span of 36 meters, the force on the membrane without our diagonal mesh cable system is: 2575 kg /m; With the same span, the force of the membrane can be reduced by our Bias-Harness Cable Net System: 186 kg /m, which is about 1/14 of that of other air domes. This is the main reason for the safety and durability advantages of our air domes.

2, Security is different: the stress of the air dome originally like balloons, without outside limit, the balloon will burst out in a certain pressure, so that is why other membrane is always the cause of the accident, the air dome by cable system makes the pressure inside the membrane is greatly increased, and makes flexible construction into rigid construction. Even under strong wind and snow it won swing, deformation, so as to improve the safety performance.

3. Product Diversity: we have unique double-layer light transmission, three-layer light transmission, three-layer thermal insulation and other technologies provide possibilities for more extensive application of air dome.

4. The technology of the mechanical unit is different: we adopt the volute-free technology and maintenance-free bearing, which is the first in the air dome industry. Our control systems are smarter and safer.

Actually, this kind of understanding is an error, because the area is too small, daylighting belt cannot have the effect of lighting. Its purpose is melting snow, because those air dome company have not Bias-Harness Cable Net System, the pressure inside can't increase a lot, under the action of heavy snow, often a problem, then they are at the top left a skylight, in snow weather, full the heat inside the gas film, due to the hot air to rise, and skylight without heat preservation cotton, can be put at the top of the melting snow.

This practice is interpreted by some Chinese companies as lighting Windows;In fact, there is no artificial light, no matter what movement inside can not carry out.Can not play the role of lighting.

Air film subdivision can be divided into: air support dome, air pleura, air pillow membrane and other main forms.

Air support dome: it can be inflated indoors to meet the load resistance standard and can be used as a permanent building.

Air pleura: the air is inflated between the two layers of the membrane. The pressure of inflation is large and the span is small. Cannot do permanent construction.

Air pillow: it is the membrane structure of Water Cube in Beijing, which needs steel structure as the main bearing force to construct, and the air pillow only plays the role of maintenance and closure.

This is a misunderstanding. The materials used in our air dome are all environment-friendly materials. After a large number of experiments, it has also been proved that the materials are safe and odorless.

New stadiums are like new cars that smell a little "new" for the first three months, but basically disappear after three months.

To emphasize: the material of indoor field can cause indoor odor problem, such as badminton glue mat, the asphalt material of tennis field and so on. We recommend that the site where the asphalt material is used should be exposed to the sun for 1-2 months to allow the volatile components to evaporate as soon as possible.

After the air volume of the equipment is determined, the air supply velocity of the equipment is related to the area of the air supply outlet. The smaller the cross-sectional area of the air outlet, the higher the wind speed will be, and vice versa. Therefore, in order to reduce the wind speed of the air supply outlet, the cross-sectional area of the air outlet should be expanded if conditions permit.

Example: 25,000 m3 / h, cross-sectional area of air supply outlet: 1 X 1m= 1 m2

The wind speed of the outlet is: 25000/3600/1= 6.9m/s. If the wind speed is to be reduced, the area of the outlet needs to be increased. For example, when it is increased to: 1X2 =2 square meters, the wind speed of the outlet becomes:

25000/3600/2 = 3.47m /s. It can be seen that the area of the outlet is doubled and the wind speed of the outlet is reduced by one time.

Factors affecting the air volume of the equipment are: the size (volume) of the air dome building, air leakage, cooling or heat capacity, the manufacturing technique and the number of people in the air dome.

The cooling and heating capacity of the air dome equipment are simulated by the computer to the local extreme climate (extremely hot, extremely cold), which is a comprehensive result considering the heat exchange of the membrane material, the heat exchange of the ground, the heat dissipation of the human body, the heat dissipation of the lamps and lanterns and the heat taken away by air leakage.

92, What should do immediately when the air dome building power failure?

Our mechanical unit will work with backup energy. There are usually several types of backup energy:

A. diesel generator: easy to install, but not easy to start at low temperature. Not for the north.

B. Gas engine: it needs natural gas or gas for energy and is not affected by the environment. It is suitable for the south and the north.

C. Gasoline engine: in the field without natural gas, it is not affected by the environment and is suitable for both north and south.

The equipment can automatically start when power failure, and automatically shut down when power supply again.

Site installation preparation time is 1 day.

The time for mechanical units to be in place and adjusted on site is 1-2 days

Membrane expansion, splicing and anchoring, cable expansion, splicing, anchoring, plus aeration time of 1-2 days.

The installation time of lighting, air conditioning and heating is 2-4 days.

The total installation time is 5-10 days.

Imported membrane material to 40 ℃, the suitable temperature range that + 70 ℃.

Domestic membrane material - 30 ℃, the suitable temperature range that + 60 ℃.

Special environment of the film can be customized; We selected some membrane materials for Russian oil project is customized, suitable for outdoor environment - 50 ℃.

Simple summary: Five 70%.

air dome building can reduce the construction cost of super-large span buildings by more than 70%

air dome building can reduce energy consumption of super-large span buildings by more than 70%

air dome building can reduce the construction period of super-large span buildings by more than 70%

air dome building can reduce environmental pollution of super-large span buildings by more than 70%

air dome building can reduce the maintenance cost of super-large span buildings by more than 70%

Also, simple summary: Six “0”.

According to "zero resources, zero energy consumption, zero emissions, zero pollution, zero work site, zero distance" the "six zero" architectural design concept. Zero resource of air dome architecture.Make full use of membrane and air as building materials, and use air pressure and gas circulation technology to create closed and comfortable space building forms;"Zero" energy consumption of gas membrane buildings.The membrane material with excellent light transmission and self-cleaning can make full use of natural light provided by nature, and is equipped with intelligent building monitoring system, passive energy-saving air conditioning technology and integrated application technology of clean energy, including water evaporation refrigeration, solar power collection and heat collection technology, so as to minimize the energy consumption in the whole life cycle of the building."Zero" emissions.Membrane structure from production to application, no dust, the use of rain water recovery, so that carbon dioxide and sewage emissions are eliminated;"Zero" pollution.Using modern gas membrane structure technology, industrialized and standardized manufacturing, integrated production, construction site rapid assembly business model, so that the construction process without noise, no air pollution, no sewage discharge;Zero site.Move the key components and components required by the construction site to the indoor factory for production. After the completion of production, implement the rapid assembly construction method on the site to improve the operation efficiency, shorten the construction period and realize "zero" on-site construction and assembly;Zero distance.In order to achieve component standardization, supply serialization, production factory, construction assembly, anytime and anywhere through the Internet of things intelligent control system to control the construction and use of energy consumption equipment, to achieve zero distance connection.