Meet Our Gold Sponsors: Tenthouse Structures

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Over the past 15 years, the Tenthouse Structures brand has become recognised as one of the market’s most innovative, full-service tent architecture and technical design firms.

From visionary design to sustainable luxury, Tenthouse Structures is a dedicated team of highly skilled textile structure architects, engineers, technicians, and lightweight building specialists, captained by CEO Brendan O’ Molony.

**Khwai Leadwood, Botswana:**
**Project Architects:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Architects & Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Systems & Structural Framework (Supply & Install):** Tenthouse Structures

Tent Architecture Specialists

As specialists in the design, engineering, supply, and on-site assembly of iconic tented camps and lodges into Africa, the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and beyond; they have developed a deep understanding of how to meet the challenges of wilderness environments while creating lasting quality for their clients.

Every tent architecture property developed by Tenthouse Structures reflects an enduring and unparalleled sense of place.

Technical Design Experts

The core of this innovation-led business is the 40+ strong team of DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) experts. Their bold and often maverick approach pushes the boundaries yet always underpinned with rigorous practice. Raising the bar through advanced design-engineering, finish, and comfort technologies to bridge the gap between extraordinary design concepts and their environmental execution.

This team creates tensile structures that are not only low-impact but fully compliant with international standards and local codes as required.

**Camp Sarika, USA:**
**Textile Architects & Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Systems & Structural Framework (Supply & Install):** Tenthouse Structures

Eco-Innovators

Through this superior design and innovation approach, Tenthouse® Structures creates sustainable, luxurious wilderness experiences. Deploying cutting-edge technologies in unconventional environments that challenge and redefine the industry’s global benchmarks.

From organic tensile curves to lightweight habitat elements offering seamless connections to nature, these finely engineered systems provide comfort, privacy, and protection in unique luxurious harmony.

Structured Solutions

Their no-nonsense, inclusive and collaborative approach means prioritizing the needs of every stakeholder, including Mother Nature herself. Starting with their versatile, tensile membrane roofing elements, they create design opportunities to introduce thin envelope enclosures, delivering flexible, design-to-build project solutions.

**Somalisa Camp and Somalisa Acacia, Zimbabwe:**
**Project Architects:** Tenthouse Structures & African Bush Camps
**Textile Architects & Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures

360º Quality Project Management

Beyond the studio, their project managers work with designers, logistics experts, and site teams throughout the project life cycle to ensure that projects get delivered on time and always to the exacting Tenthouse® Structures quality standards.

Site Services

Where the rubber hits the road, their qualified and experienced site managers and technical supervisors focus on installation, training, and resolving snags before handover, liaising with both the project manager and design team throughout the process, ensuring all quality standards are achieved.

Modular Tent Collection

Tenthouse Structures also has a full range of high-performance, predesigned modular product solutions. From Expedition Camps to T2 Modularô and the soon-to-be-launched Discovery range, they pride themselves in offering a complete and distinctive range of quality products for any wilderness environment, from rustic nature camps to custom retreats and premium tailored-to-brand resorts.

**Lemala Nanyuki, Tanzania:**
**Project Architects:** Tenthouse Structures
**Project Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Architects & Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Systems & Structural Framework (Supply & Install):** Tenthouse Structures
**Interiors:** Tenthouse Structures

Production Capability

Their current manufacturing output stands upon a long-standing network of professional and dependable Tenthouse-certified suppliers and contract manufacturers.

The Tenthouse DFMA process (designed for manufacture and assembly) is a 360-degree quality management system carefully honed over the last 15 years. The DFMA process deploys from design and engineering project activity through manufacturing, integrated logistics, and on-site services.

Tenthouse Structures 5-year business plan provides – inter alia – a substantial investment program for the completion of two additional manufacturing facilities, to further strengthen their production capacity and efficiencies, in both South Africa and the USA. This investment program will be deployed over a 2-years period, in support of their continued expansion to a forecast 1,000+ tents per annum by 2027.

**Hoanib Skeleton Coast, Namibia:**
**Textile Architects & Engineers:** Tenthouse Structures
**Textile Systems (Supply & Install):** Tenthouse Structures

Return on Investment

Every Tenthouse project is #madeforthewild and exquisitely engineered to operate over an extended design life. Their robust, energy-efficient structures deliver a lower total cost of ownership, while extraordinary design and comfort attract sustained occupancy, providing a consistent and longer-term return on investment.

Tenthouse Structures is a proud member of the Eco Resort Network and sponsor of the Eco Resort Network Hospitality Event 2023, a premier partner of the American Glamping Association and the Green Building Council of South Africa.