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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3479756, member: 27"] It is an interesting question. It looks like they are doing something to the white material as they unroll it on the roof. They unroll a short section, crouch down around it and do something. Apply epoxy? Not sure. Whatever they do, it looks like the material is very secure afterwards. One thing that I think might be a problem is that the seams of the sections are covered by this material. The side to side seams are gone, completely covered. The Geiger drawing clearly shows a dark line where the section borders end, lengthwise and widthwise. The Geiger drawing also has the exterior surface of the hard shell as a light tan color. Is the drawing wrong? I am 95% sure that it has the color of the PTFE section wrong (it shows as beige, not snow white). That might have been done to make it easier to show that the PTFE fabric is quite translucent (another thing that is wrong about the drawing), so I am willing to give them a pass on that. Could they have gotten almost everything wrong about the exterior surface? Maybe. It just seems odd that they would show those seams so prominently and then get rid of them in the final product. Maybe they are going to add cables on top of the white material later and get the seams to show that way. Right now, I don't see how the roof will hold together over time. It seems like a lot of layers were just laid on top of each other. It is really windy and gusty up there. I would think it would almost certainly lose layers over time. Maybe they can clip the material to the metal borders of each section? Update: I can clearly see the white material rippling in the breeze along the left side of the newest section done. It is clearly not attached right now, at least not on the sides. Maybe on the top and the bottom. They could do it later though. I hope at some point that someone will explain the structure of the hard shell, what the layers are, what their purpose is, and how it all holds together. It is probably the most famous and important building in CNY. Surely someone cares about it besides the people on this thread. [/QUOTE]

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