Completed Project — Education
Gyan Bharti School, Saket Tensile Structure
A tensile structure at Gyan Bharti School, Saket — about 1,550 m² of tensioned fabric cover over an open-air facility on the 7.2-acre South Delhi campus, on a galvanised steel frame. Ekra Decor built it in about 45 days. Other campus work is collected under schools and campuses.
- LocationSaket
- StructureTensile Structure
- Coverage1,550 m²
- Delivered≈45 days
Project Overview
from Ekra Decor’s
project records
Ekra Decor built a tensile canopy for Gyan Bharti School, a co-educational school founded in 1980 on a 7.2-acre campus in Saket, South Delhi. The campus is well equipped for outdoor activity — a cricket pitch, a football field, a running track, a basketball court and an open-air amphitheatre.
A campus with an amphitheatre and multiple courts has an obvious candidate for a canopy: one of those open-air spaces, roofed so it works through the Delhi summer and the monsoon. An amphitheatre in particular gains a lot from a cover — performances and assemblies stop being weather-dependent — while a court cover adds year-round PE and match space.
Ekra Decor’s records give about 1,550 m² of cover, built in roughly 45 days.
Project Highlights
Project highlights
Roofs an open-air facility
Shade and rain cover for an open-air area of the campus.
Weatherproofs performance and sport
A cover turns a weather-dependent open-air space into a year-round one.
About 1,550 m²
A substantial single canopy over a whole facility, not a small shelter.
Delivered in about 45 days
A roughly six-week programme on a running campus.
Column-free space below
The roof spans to the perimeter, keeping the facility fully usable.
Project Photographs
The project, as built
The Brief
Making an open-air facility all-weather
An amphitheatre or a sports court is a real asset to a school — until the weather takes it out of use for a third of the year. The brief for a canopy over one of these spaces is to keep everything that makes it good (the open feel, the daylight, the sightlines) while removing the weather as a factor.
Ekra Decor delivered the structure as a turnkey job: survey and setting-out over the existing facility, 3D structural and membrane design, fabrication of the galvanised steel frame and the welded fabric, and installation and tensioning, over about 1,550 m² in roughly 45 days.
Design & Engineering
A clear span over a whole facility
Covering an amphitheatre or a court means spanning the entire space in one go, because a column in the seating rake or the playing area is not acceptable. The membrane and its supporting steel cross to a perimeter column line, and the clear height is set from what happens underneath — a stage and its rigging, or a lofted ball.
The fabric is form-found in 3D and pre-stressed into double curvature so it resists the wind uplift that governs a large light roof and drains the monsoon cleanly. Ekra Decor designs the steelwork to IS 800 and checks the structure for wind, rain and seismic loading to the applicable Indian codes, with the foundations sized against uplift. Where the space is an amphitheatre, a translucent membrane keeps the daylight for daytime use while the fabric’s acoustic softness takes the hard edge off amplified sound.
Fabrication & Installation
Fabricated off-site, installed around the school
The steel is cut, welded and hot-dip galvanised in the workshop and the membrane is cut and high-frequency welded into panels off-site, so on-site work is limited to casting the foundations clear of the facility, erecting the frame, and running and tensioning the membrane.
On a running campus the work is fenced off and lifts and deliveries are timed around the school day, with the facility handed back as a finished, tensioned space in about 45 days.
The Result
A facility the weather can’t close
The school gained a covered open-air facility — amphitheatre or court — that keeps its character but now works through the summer and the monsoon. The canopy asks only for periodic cleaning and a routine check of its frame and tensions.
Ekra Decor builds amphitheatre, stage and sports-court covers for schools. See more finished work on the projects page, or read about tensile structures in Delhi.
Technical Specifications
Project data
Only the fields recorded for this project are shown. Membrane grade and steel sections are specified per project after the site survey.
Project
- Client
- Gyan Bharti School
- Location
- Saket, New Delhi
- Category
- Education
Structure
- Type
- Tensile Structure
- Coverage
- 1,550 m²
- Membrane
- Architectural tensile fabric (PVC / PVDF-coated polyester) — compare membranes
Delivery
- Scope of work
- Site survey · 3D design · engineering · fabrication · installation
- Programme
- ≈45 days
- Engineering
- Wind, rain and seismic loads to applicable IS codes; steelwork to IS 800
- Photographs
- 5, Ekra Decor archive
About This Project
A real, completed Ekra Decor project
This project is recorded in Ekra Decor’s own project archive. It is documented with 5 site photographs from Ekra Decor’s own project archive. Ekra Decor designed, fabricated and installed the structure. Ekra Decor is an ISO 9001:2015-certified tensile structure manufacturer, established in 1998, working pan-India from Delhi and Bangalore.
View ISO 9001:2015 certificate- Structure type
- Tensile Structure
- Location
- Saket, New Delhi
- Coverage
- 1,550 m²
- Completion
- ≈45 days
- Scope
- Design · engineering · fabrication · installation
- Manufacturer
- Ekra Decor Pvt. Ltd. — ISO 9001:2015, est. 1998
Common Questions
About this project & building something similar
Saket, New Delhi.
≈1,550 m², per Ekra Decor's project records.
≈45 days from start to finish, per Ekra Decor's project records — in line with the standard 10 to 15 day fabrication and 3 to 7 day on-site installation timeline used across most projects.
Gyan Bharti School.
Yes — 5 photographs from Ekra Decor's own project archive appear in the gallery above, not a stock or illustrative image.
Yes — every project starts with a site survey and a custom 3D design tailored to your space, not a fixed template. Get in touch to discuss a similar structure for your own site.
The choice depends on span, climate and intended lifespan. PVC-coated polyester is the most cost-effective option, with a 10–15 year service life. PVDF-coated polyester adds a self-cleaning top layer and pushes that to 15–20 years. PTFE-coated fibreglass is a permanent, non-combustible membrane with a life measured in decades, and ETFE film is used where an ultra-light, highly transparent roof is needed.
Yes. Wind, rain and — where relevant — snow and seismic loads are analysed to the applicable IS codes, and the steelwork is designed to IS 800. The membrane is form-found so its stresses stay balanced in double curvature, and the foundations are sized against uplift and overturning rather than gravity alone — the governing case for a lightweight tensile roof.
A one-year written warranty on the structure and workmanship, and a membrane warranty of 5 to 15 years depending on the fabric grade, plus as-built drawings, original mill certificates for the membrane and steel, a structural stability certificate and an operation & maintenance manual on handover. An annual maintenance contract covering inspection and re-tensioning is optional.
Very little — a periodic wash to remove surface dirt, and an annual check of cable tension and bolt torque. PVDF and PTFE membranes are largely self-cleaning, so rain keeps them looking new. We can carry this out under an annual maintenance contract if you prefer.
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