venues and rigging
Rigging and venues
The job of the entertainment rigger is to suspend objects such as lighting, sound, scenery and even performers at specific locations above the stage.
In order to avoid catastrophic failures, we must calculate forces such as static and dynamic loads.
The weight of our rigging is not always straight down, the resultant forces must be calculated so that we can adhere to the structural design of our architecture and equipment.
The height, weight, size and position of each object has a direct effect on how we do our math.
Doing our calculation up front is our first line of defense against have a potential failure.