Ready in time for the first concert
Things had to move fast though. “We accepted the commission in mid-January and the first concert of a series of forty were planned to take place at the end of April 2016, so we had only about three months, which is very short notice for such a daring venture. It was also a very large structure, requiring 75 trucks to transport it and 60 people just to set it up.”
By March 2016, the first stage set had been completed and a test setup had been carried out in the steel workshop. “All the parts were manufactured with utter precision and any deviation was kept as low as 1 or 2 millimetres, which is well below the specified tolerance limits. The tests also confirmed that the entire structure can be assembled within just a few days. Amazing? I never had any doubts.”
Beyoncé’s The Formation World Tour from April to August 2016 and was a huge success.