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System: Parkade
Attachment Method: Talon
Metal Fabric Pattern: Braid

Project: East Dublin Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
Location: Pleasanton, CA
Architect: International Parking Design, Inc., Alameda, CA
General Contractor: Romak Iron Works, Benecia, CA
Facility End Use: Public Transit System
Completion Date: October 2007
Renovation or New Construction: New Construction

Project Details: The East Dublin Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station situated between Dublin and Pleasanton, CA on Interstate 580, features a Cambridge Architectural Parkade mesh system. The Parkade metal fabric system was designed to cover large openings from floor to floor without necessitating a great number of reinforcements and building protrusions.

The functional, woven metal fabric draped the facility with 7,715 sq. ft. of architectural mesh in the Braid pattern, which has a 65% open area and allows daylight and air to pass through the structure.

Cambridge’s Talon tension attachment hardware was used to install the Braid pattern. The Talon hardware is appropriate for lengths of metal fabric held in tension up to 100 feet.

Planners of the adjacent parking structure recognized that they needed to create a structure aesthetically compatible with the BART station. Cambridge Architectural metal fabric was chosen to help meet that objective.

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