The Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, which opened January 2011, was designed to provide a venue for a wide variety of events, both national and international. As a congress hall it caters for up to 3,000 delegates; it also provides the city with a major exhibition venue as well as a concert hall.

Unusual was contracted to design, manufacture and install a 1750 sq m modular tension wire grid:

• 173 custom designed and built panels to architect specified arrangement
• 250kN per square metre load capacity
• 6 levels, with balustrades, stairs and vertical safety nets between each level
• 40,000m of 4mm stainless steel wire rope manufactured into 18,000 individual ropes.

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