Tents & festivals
When summer approaches, the festival season is also officially declared open. From music festivals with international appeal to enjoyable village performances: there is no shortage of lively musical activity during the sunniest days of the year. All the more reason to prevent avoidable accidents that would put a damper on the festivities...
Vinçotte would be happy to relieve you of some of your stress as an organiser by conducting three types of high quality safety inspections:
- Type A for major events with several large tents and/or complex structures;
- Type B for events in which one or more pagoda, framework or circus tents are used;
- Type C for events with one or more tents , other than pagoda, framework or circus tents.
Why Vinçotte?
- The erection of a tent is a major responsibility. Rely on an independent expert with more than 140 years of experience.
- Vinçotte offers you the most comprehensive service possible. We can offer you a convenient tailor-made combination package that includes other inspections and tests such as the inspection of natural gas storage facilities or electrical installations.
- We always aim for maximum simplicity and flexibility: you can quickly start the process with our user-friendly ordering procedure.
Party with complete peace of mind: have your tents inspected
A wide variety of tents are erected during summer festivals. Needless to say, correct installation is crucially important. For example, faulty use of connecting elements or ground anchors may give rise to grave stability risks. The support surface or the weather are additional risk factors.
Opt for safety inspection that best suits your event
Important: Tensile tests on ground anchors (this does not apply to ballast blocks)
The quality of the ground anchoring is crucially important for the stability of temporary structures. Since ground anchors are driven to relatively shallow depths into the ground (around 1m), the resistance of ground anchors varies greatly from location to location.
We strongly encourage you to test the anchoring and to also check it against article 8.2 of NBN-EN 13782. You can order this tensile test together with the verification of proper installation and stability. For this test, you are required to provide three extra accessible anchors to be installed per tent, as well as equipment that can generate the necessary tensile force (such as a forklift truck or truck crane). We will provide a device to measure the tensile force (dynamometer).
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