Did you see the cement fabric on BBC news?
That is fucking genius who says design students are totally useless.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:22, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Unless it rains when they are getting it out

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Nah it needs to be wet, and it inflates in 10mins.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Dont spoil it

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:25, Reply)

if you mean concrete cloth
it's been around for years and it was developed by civil engineers.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:26, Reply)

Well I can't find the video now
but it was an inflatable tent thing with fixed door surrounded by the concrete cloth, I was impressed.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:28, Reply)

oh here it is
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13430747
(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:29, Reply)

That could lead to some amazing pranks.
I wonder if it avoids planning permision thinggies.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I like your thinking here

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:38, Reply)

If someone passes out drunk
you could put them in 5 of them arranged in a circle.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:45, Reply)

Or just wrap them in it and piss on them

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:46, Reply)

Or you could cut out a slab of it just slightly too big to get out a door and wet it in someone's bedroom.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)

depends if it is argued that it's a permament structure.
But I don't think planning permission is the major concern in disaster zones. Unless the local councils are planning on prosecuting the earthquake god for demolishing listed buildings without planning permission.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:39, Reply)

"I don't make the rules Sonny Jim, I just enforce them"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:41, Reply)

Oh, yeah, the two guys that made the tent were design students
but the cloth has been around for years, as has using inflatable moulds for it. They've just "packaged" it in one box.

Fair play, I'm not knocking their effort as it's a useful thing to have, but it's not their invention.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 20 May 2011, 10:31, Reply)