BEEAH

For BEEAH in Dammam, TMSI delivered car park shade structures in HDPE fabric covering more than 7,500 m². The project dates from 2020.

HDPE shade net is a knitted, breathable fabric: hot air escapes through it rather than being trapped under the canopy, which keeps parked vehicles cooler, and it is an economical way to cover large parking areas. On a car park of this size, the low weight of the fabric also keeps the supporting steelwork light.

Car park shades are TMSI's largest product line, with more than 300,000 m² delivered across Saudi Arabia and the region; the in-house team covers design, engineering, manufacturing in the Dammam factory and installation. Every TMSI tensile design goes through form finding and finite element analysis, and the resulting load calculations set the size of the foundations and steelwork and the pre-stress of the fabric.