Industry Manufacturing Area served Worldwide Founded 1926 | Headquarters Canada Website www.empireds.com Parent organization Empire Industries Ltd | |
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Products Amusement rides, observatory telescopes | ||
Dynamic structures brings construction know how to roller coasters
Dynamic Structures is a Canadian company with a history in steel fabrication dating back to 1926. They create amusement rides, theme park rides, observatory telescopes and other complex steel structures.
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History
Dynamic Structures' history dates back to 1926, when Vancouver Art Metal was founded. The firm was renamed Coast Steel Fabricators Limited in 1952. In 1976, the firm was purchased by AGRA Inc., before being renamed AGRA Coast Limited in 1994. AGRA Inc. and its subsidiaries were acquired by British firm AMEC in 2001, with the company changing its name to AMEC Dynamic Structures. In 2007, AMEC sold the company to Empire Industries, who operate it as Dynamic Structures. In 2011, Dynamic Structures' amusement ride manufacturing was spun off into a sister company named Dynamic Attractions.
Astronomy projects
Dynamic Structures has been involved in the design and construction of most of the world's largest observatories. These include:
Currently the company is busy with the design of what will be the largest telescope in the world, called the Thirty Meter Telescope
Steel structures
Other structures that Dynamic Structures have constructed include:
Dynamic Attractions was originally part of the Dynamic Structures company until it was split off in 2011. One of the founders of Premier Rides, Peter Schnabel, headed up the new sister company.
The firm entered the amusement industry after one of the engineers on the Keck Observatory project asked the firm for assistance with steel fatigue on a roller coaster. Following the observatory project, this engineer secured a job at Walt Disney World in Florida. Due to the success of the project, Dynamic Structures gained additional contracts with Walt Disney Imagineering to manufacture the ride systems for Soarin' Over California and Test Track. This expanded the firm's presence in the amusement industry.
In the 1990s, Dynamic Structures worked with Premier Rides to fabricate several of their rides including Batman & Robin: The Chiller at Six Flags Great Adventure, Poltergeist at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Mad Cobra at Suzuka Circuit.