Event Structures

Echidna Pod Tent Structures

Client:  Bedouin Freeform Tents

Project Engineer:  Andrew Derbidge

Partridge Partners provided structural certification and details of ballast requirements for these freeform tent structures.

Elton John 2007/2008 Concert Tour

Client:  Butlers Hire
Project Engineer:  Eamonn Madden

Partridge Partners provided structural certification for the 22m Solar Roof System including post installation structural inspections at various locations around Australia.

Certification of 'Dome' stage roof and stage deck

Client:  Butlers Hire
Project Engineer:  Eamonn Madden

Partridge Partners carried out a design review of the British designed Roof System to Australian Standards and provided certification for the Roof and Stage Structures Australia wide. 

We have carried out installation inspections for Big Day Out 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Asian Games 2006, Opening & Closing Ceremonies

Client:  David Atkins Enterprises
Project Engineer:  Eamonn Madden

In January 2006 David Atkins Enterprises (DAE) appointed Partridge Partners as consulting engineers responsible for ensuring the structural safety of 50 ground based and 25 flown ‘performance structures’ as well as 2 stages and a number of tower structures (supported on the stage lift constructed below the centre of the field of play) to be used in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Doha Asian Games held in December 2006.

Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Aussie Stadium

Project Manager:  Harry Partridge

The design and certification of the castle flatage to be back supported by scaffolding.

Sydney Olympic Opening Ceremonies 2000

Client:  David Atkins Enterprises
Project Engineer:  Harry Partridge

Ned Kelly's horse charged into the arena breathing fire and smoke, dominating the stadium; then in a graceful flowing movement bowed down to gently greet Nicky Webster. Later it would transform into the ubiquitous outback windmill.

We certified all event structures in the 'Tin' sequence and the 'Flying Fish' suspended above the arena.

Sydney Olympic Closing Ceremony 2000

Client:  David Atkins Enterprises
Project Engineer:  Harry Partridge

Structural Engineers and Certifiers for: Kylie's thong, Jimmy Barnes blowfly (did not fly due to high wind), rolling hemi-decahedrons, The Shark’s Shark, Crocodile Dundee’s hat ….. etc.

Outdoor Temporary Structures

Design and certification of outdoor cinema screen using scaffolding framing and canvas sheeting held down against wind uplift by water-filled plastic barriers at Homebush Bay.

The design and certification of a three storey Christmas tree structure in City and Hurstville.

The site inspection and design of a string of Christmas fairy lights above Pitt St Mall.

Floating Convention Stage, Hawaii

Project Engineer:  Nicholas Joannides

This design required us to carry out floatation calculations on a floating pontoon. The pontoon floatation and stability levels were then checked on a trial run in Port Stephens, before it was deflated and flown to Hawaii for erection in a hotel swimming pool, for a 2-hour spectacle of Hawaii dancing.