Natura is well known to rig inspiring aerial acts and seemingly impossible engineering solutions. Natura is usually called on to a celebrations project to execute one of its exquisite and clean Aerial Performances. Though, this was the first time ever, an event production company brought Natura on board for a private celebrations project as rigging consultants.
Natura’s role was not to rig anything themselves but to make sure all the elements of larger than life decor were rigged safely from the temporary hangar specially created for this event. The event designed by the famous celebrations designer Sumant boasted of Chandeliers from max. 24 ft in diameter to min. 10ft in diameter, Along with these, there were fabricated frames, Lighting trussing, Stage elements. All of these weighed in the range of min. 300kgs to max. 1 ton. Natura worked with various vendors from Lighting, LED, and Trussing to fabrication vendors to execute this larger than life event.
Natura were brought on board as rigging consultants and were responsible for making sure all the flying elements of the larger than life decor, were rigged and flown safely from the hanger and the truss grid. It was Natura’s responsibility to work with technical vendors and fabricators to create a safe and beautiful setting for the larger than life experential celebration.
The team faced multiple issues to begin with, first they had to start with convincing the riggers from vendor’s team to wear a harness before they go up on hanger to rig. Natura had to convince vendors to use proper rigging gear like spansets, steel wire rope, etc.
More than once team Natura had stopped work when things went beyond acceptable parameters of risk. This definitely delayed the work but thanks to Aabhas, from Scoop Brand who made sure everyone understood the importance of safety.
Every single rig which was done was double checked by 2 head riggers from Natura team, who at times, even changed rigs and re did things themselves. In the end it all turned out really well, No one had an iota of doubt, about any of the rigs. Everything was double and triple checked, before being finalized, which enabled the production team to focus more on other aspects of the event.