The Book 2012 – 2016
F-TECH THE BOOK 2012 – 2016 THIS IS ALREADY OUR SECOND BOOK WE’RE PUBLISHING, SHOWING OUR CORPORATE HISTORY OF WORK AND GREAT PASSION WITHIN THE PAST 4 YEARS. WE’RE VERY HAPPY TO LOOK BACK ON THE GOOD AND SATISFYING COOPERATION, WE HAD WITH ALL OUR PARTNERS AND CLIENTS, WHO WERE, AND ARE STILL A GREAT AND SIGNIFICANT PART OF MAKING THIS POSSIBLE. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO BELIEVED, TRUSTED AND SUPPORTED US, IN OUR PRETTY OFTEN ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF THINKING AND REALIZING OUR IDEAS. THIS IS WHY WE ARE PLEASED TO REVEAL THIS BOOK, AS A COLLECTION OF THE GOOD TIMES AND NICE MOMENTS, GIVING YOU A DETAILED INSIGHT OF OUR WORK.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND THE AWESOME PICTURES! Axel Bernhart, Alex Berger, Fizza.it, Patrick Schwienbacher, Alessandro Belluscio, Harald Griessmair, Hannes Lercher, Christoph Götsch, Klaus Polzer, Frode Sandbech, Andreas ‘Mone’ Monsberger, Kaspars Daleckis, martin Haslwanter, Timo Jarvinen, David Malcrida, Harald Wisthaler, Eleonora Raggi, Dominic Zimmermann, Damiano Levati, Manuel Kottersteger, Alexander Melis, Roby Bragotto, Tobias Pircher, Maximilian Gasser, Rene Strgar, Giovanni Marchesi, Francesco Ferrarini
Index s04 – s07 s08 – s25 s26 – s31 s32 – s53 s54 – s71 s72 – s77 s78 – s83 s84 – s87 s88 – s93 s94 – s95
F-TECH: Who we are Snowpark Construction Fun Elements for Mobility Parks & Family Fun Lines Event setup & Shootings Snowparks By F-TECH Skatepark Construction Film Production Marketing & Graphic Design Other Projects F-TECH Friends
F-TECH Who we are
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F-TECH is... ...a bunch of fanatic enthusiasts. Our staff is consisting of experts, coming from all kind of fields, like park designers, professional shapers, mechanics, metal workers, carpenters, varnishers, pilots, graphic designers, marketing experts, film experts and athletes. We can find the appropriate solutions for your needs. Cause the combination of our passion and experience makes it possible for us, to generate out from our manifold opportunities. So that’s exactly what it says on the tin.
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SNOWPARK Construction
Consultation Based on many years of experience, we guarantee a customized service with tailor made solutions. We respond precise and to the point to your needs, finding, within closed collaboration, the best way to optimize and enhance the leisure activity constructions in your ski resort.
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Topographical measurement We base our planning on the most accurate GPS measurements. We deploy the latest surveying technologies to embed your projects in the most appropriate way into the terrain. This is the reason why we are able to manage the resources more efficiently in summer as we do it during the wintertime. So the terrain modelling and preparation allows us to carry out the construction in an ideal way.
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In collaboration with your construction partners, geometricians and building enterprises, we are supervising the progress of your projects. As a consequence you’ll save water, time, fuel and energy.
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3D Planning & Renderings To optimize the obtained data from the measurements, a 3D program will elaborate them. Working sustainably is a firmly anchored principle in our planning and execution of our projects. Therefore every project will be integrated as far as possible to the natural given terrain and greater interventions are tried to be avoided. The photorealistic renderings of the projects can easily be used to present and promote the new attractions in your ski resort. For the planning phase we offer:
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On site inspection Topographic survey using GPS measurement Analysis and integration of existing projects Conception and design Safety concept Maintenance schedule Cost calculation Creation of building plans Rendering / 3D visualization Planning and monitoring earthworks
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Park Construction Safety, functionality and precision are our main priorities. By accurate planning we avoid unnecessary expensive delays, being able to construct your project optimally. We provide the complete service; from properly placed snow guns to the setups’ finest tuning. Creativity and innovation are the essential features for the implementation of successful projects.
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Maintenance
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A snowpark is an investment and should be treated as such. A daily and scrupulous care is the key to your parks’ success. We always place high importance to the maintenance and safety – even after the construction is completed. The snowpark should be maintained accordingly in a long-lasting way. We pursue and accompany all your projects along the entire season and offer you customized maintenance support, if necessary. From periodic inspections, to a full maintenance service, we will always be by your side. It doesn’t matter if you already have a snowpark team or if it needs to be formed by or with us, together we find the optimal solution.
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Obstacles Construction Thanks to our „in house workshop“ we’re able to produce special structures and provide unique attractions for and to your park, by working with the most innovative materials. We are Italy’s official dealer of “Schneestern” products, one of the world’s leading snowpark structure manufacturers. We offer a wide range of products and as a consequence it is possible to draw countless possibilities of your individual and creative snowpark setup. All structures are TÜV certificated and comply with safety standards.
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Obstacle Maintenance Despite the reliable building style of our structures, we also recommend to perform a periodic technical check. This is the only way for you to guarantee the safety and usability needed to make you and your costumers feel secure and save at all times. Therefore we offer an integral on site overhaul service and in case of further resource intensive interventions needed, those will be handled directly from our team in our workshop. We offer:
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Welding jobs Paint jobs Branding renewal All around renewal
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Branding Trough various innovative branding suggestions we help you increase the visibility of your snowpark and your partners. With the experience gained over the years we get you to create a successful corporate identity, by: • • • •
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Transparency print Painting Digital printing Free Forms / Constructing Individual
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Wood Line A special item in our range of products is beyond doubts the wood obstacle. Besides, wood is one of our favorite materials to use and to work with, because it permits us to work in a sustainable way and gives us a great sensation while being in close touch with our impressive nature. All our wood products are designed, produced and delivered by us. With an extraordinary piece like a wood obstacle, you can give that certain something to your project.
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Fun Elements
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Advice Mobility Parks and Family Fun Lines are one of the hotspots in ski resorts, as an attraction for children, youth and parents. These items enrich the overall offer of a ski area, providing and increasing the costumer’s evaluations, emphasizing your resort among the competitors. The Family Fun Lines are very popular and have a high visitor rate.
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Planning With a wide range of products and the experience we gained so far, applying those, we can offer you unlimited possibilities to assemble your individual fun area. These structures close the gap between absolute beginners and advanced snowpark using customers. Applying to: • • • •
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Family fun Lines Ski School Areas Beginner Areas Kids Parks
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Materials & Production After several years of extensive research and testing various prototypes, we are glad to present a mature and innovative product line. All the F-TECH “Fun Element” structures have been developed together with snowboard/ski instructors and sport psychologists the way to guide the kids trough a gradual learning process. As in all our products, we try to reach high functionality and safety by precise planning. The lines are very easy to maintain and to reassemble. Main features are:
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Lightweight construction Round edges Handily / easy to move
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Event setup & Shootings
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Our Service: Over the last 10 years we have been planning, promoting and supporting various events. We can accompany you throughout every single step. We will be available from turning an initial idea to a real concept, over setting up the construction, to the marketing work and the execution. We can offer you the following services: • • • • • • • •
Idea and concept Feasibility and cost analysis Planning and design 3D and renderings Obstacle construction Setup construction and final assembly Maintenance and care PR and marketing and video production
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Springingerle Kronplatz
F-TECH planned and built the setup for “Springingerle� in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
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FISCHER SHOOTING KLAUSBERG
The special guest on the “Fischer Shooting Klausberg” was no other but the Olympic gold medal winner Joss Christensen.
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SCHLERN GAMES Seiser Alm
One of our favorite meetings is the “Schlern Games�. In the middle of the season, riders from all over the world come together to have a simply good time. Grilling, jibbing a cash for tricks contest is the recipe for the ultimate session of the year!
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Universiade Trentino
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In 2013 F-TECH prepared the slopestyle course for the “XXVI Winter Universiade Italy� in Trentino. The whole branding and construction work was made from and by us.
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Skipass Modena fiera modena
Since 2014 we have been planning and constructing the contest setup for the “Modena Skipass� exhibition.
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Burton SHOOTING Europe TEam - Seiser alm Many riders like Marko Grilc, Max Zebe, Roope Tonteri, Werni Stock and many more enjoyed hitting our lines. We are always motivated to build up special setups for interesting sessions.
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RED BULL SHOOTING LISA ZIMMERMAN - Seiser alm On request we can build everything you want, as we did for Red Bull at the “Lisa Zimmerman Shooting” at the Seiser Alm.
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Red Bull Innsnowation Val Senales
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Our project “Jack in the box” won the most creative and best shaped feature at the “Red Bull Innsnowation” contest.
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F.I.S. Europa cup & JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Seiser alm
F-TECH built the setup for the F.I.S Ski and Snowpark European Cup 2016 and accompanied the freestyle association FSA by executing the competition.
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Burn: Ride again Val Senales
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We realized the setup for the interactive “Burn” snowboard film “Ride Again”, featuring Stale Sandbeck, Arthur Longo, Sven Thorgren and more, facing the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014.
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GoPro Colaboration Seiser alm
With the support of GoPro we realized a superlative park at the Seiser Alm and many other events as film projects.
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Quicksilver SHOOTING Seiser alm
International teams appreciate our razor sharp shaping style and the good take offs and landings.
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Nine Knights Watles
We had the great honor to construct the obstacle for the “Nine Knights” event “The Perfect Hip” together with our partner “Schneestern” in 2016, where we enabled the snowboard and ski high jump world records on a hip.
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New World Record David Wise 14,2 m Ski
New World Record Christian Haller 11,3 m Snowboard
Snowparks by F-TECH
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OUr Parks: Snowpark building is our main task. In this area and working field we have gained the biggest experience, giving us the possibility to perform every thinkable service regarding snowpark constructions, from the beginning up to the finish. In most of the cases we look after our projects through the whole season.
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Seiser Alm since 2001
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Obereggen since 2007
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Val Senales 2006 - 2014
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Klausberg Since 2013
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Kronplatz Since 2008
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Jochtal Since 2010
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Carezza Since 2012
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Reinswald Since 2011
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Speikboden Since 2012
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Watles Since 2014
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San Martino 2013 & 2014
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Ritten Since 2010
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Meran 2000 Since 2013
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Skatepark Construction
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Why Skateparks? Skateboarding has always been our passion. It is all about creativity and innovation. Therefore we decided to create a new branch in our company.
Construction Together and in close contact with experienced skateboarders and BMX riders, we worked on, and developed new ideas and projects over the past 10 years, using a variety of materials and design techniques. Regardless of whether we have used concrete, wood, iron or high-pressure laminate (HPL), it made us gain experience about all those material characters. All constructions are realized, just like all our plans are; based on GPS measurements, which are then optimized throughout a 3D program. A photo-realistic rendering of the projects is going to support you in promoting the new attraction. 76
During the planning phase we offer the following services: • • • • •
On site inspection Analysis and integration of already existing projects Conception and design Cost calculation Planning
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Transport Construction Maintenance
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Skatepark Structures Our construction crew is consisting of professional metal workers, carpenters and construction workers, who are familiar with all common materials, which are used to build a skatepark. A precise and neat process is just as important to us, as it is the safety and creativity. Independently of all, we put a lot of attention into detail.
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Thanks to our long lasting experience we restore and maintain your existing skatepark in the best possible way.
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Film Production Our projects have been recorded from the very beginning. We encouraged young and keen filmers with the appropriate equipment and know how. From the fact that in the last years the demand increased steeply we decided to found F-TECH Production in 2013.
Filming F-TECH Production is a young creative and extremely versatile video production. We’re working together with enthusiastic skiers, snowboarders, surfers, skateboarders, bikers, climbers and mountaineers and we love the challenge – no mountain and no terrain is too high and no shooting too difficult for us to reach. We constantly strive to find new offers and welcome any new interesting project. We have been operating for several years in the commercial and tourist, as well as in the documentary industry.
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Throughout the years we have gained a lot of experience in the action and sports industry. Two in-house photographers make part of our crew— dedicated professionals who have passion for action photography are ready to support you in any kind of project. In case of any special requests or shootings we work with the following photographers too: – Lorenzo “Fizza” Verdinelli – Patrick Schwienbacher – Eleonora Raggi – Harald Wisthaler – Alessandro Belluscio – Roby Bragotto – Denis Piccolo
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Aerial filming As we have been already specialized in sports filming, the commercial and web industry, we extended our offer by UAV based aerial filming in 2014. We combine our passion for flying, filming and photographing, with the admiration for the nature and the athletes, all in one. Our pilots are very experienced and well trained. This is essentially to conduct the flight missions in highest safety and efficiency. F-TECH fulfills all legal requirements to apply and use drones in commercial operations and holds the necessary certificate of the Italian Aviation Authorities.
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Marketing & Graphic design
Full service advertising Based on your business objectives and the market analysis, our young but experienced team is going to design and develop a tailor-made marketing plan for you.
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GRAPHIC Design, SOCIAL MEDIA & PUBLIC RELATIONS
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We offer a complete service; from traditional media campaigns to online marketing initiatives – web, social media, newsletters, content ads – we try to transform your desires, ideas and needs into reality. Mainly specialized in the field of social media, we are able to reach your potential customers, giving you and your customers an added value in the market. Our young team is constantly looking for innovation, especially regarding the means of communication – our customers should always be updated, without missing any trend. Our marketing department doesn’t only consist of photographers, filmmakers and cutters but as well of graphic & media designers and online communication specialists. This way we give you the opportunity to get flyers, banners, stickers, logo designs, corporate videos, photos and online campaigns just from a single supplier.
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Other Projects
Other Projects Our team of creative minds is pleased to welcome new projects and is always ready to face and realize new challenges in unknown fields. We already gained some experience in planning and constructing multisport parks and restyling showrooms and shops. Lately we have also successfully realized furnishings for interior and exterior.
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Shop & interior Design For “Fresco Distribution” we planned and built a new showroom in a very short period of time. We customized the whole interior and built special functional furnishings for all “Fakieshops” and the “Red Wing Corner” for “Sublime Shop”. www.fakieshop.com www.frescodist.com www.subskateshop.com
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Cars, Boat, and BBQ Grills The rest of our little remaining time, we spend dedicating to projects touching our hearts, like restoring old cars, creating BBQ grills and equipping boats with those too. But never to forget our amazing grill sessions. Cause we really love to grill. One of our next important projects is to plan, construct and deliver a pizza oven for Giovanni’s garden... :)
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F-TECH Friends
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THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT OUR HISTORY BY FLIPPING TROUGH THIS BOOKLET, WE HOPE THAT YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT IT AND WILL LOOK AT IT SEVERAL TIMES. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE PROJECTS OF THE NEXT 4 YEARS. WAITING WITH PLEASANT ANTICIPATION FOR THE CHALLENGES YOU’RE ABOUT TO GIVE US. WE WANT TO ENCOUNTER THOSE WITH THE SAME GREAT PASSION AND PROFESSIONALISM AS ALWAYS.
ALEX BERGER: “I AS FOUNDER AND BOSS OF F-TECH WOULD, FIRST OF ALL, LIKE TO THANK MY WORKMATES, WITHOUT WHOM ALL THIS WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE! WE HAVE A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP BECAUSE WE ARE KIND OF A FAMILY; RESPECT AND HUMOR IS OUR MAIN CONNECTION. SOMETIMES WE HAD TO FACE HARD DECISIONS, SITTING AND DISCUSSING CHALLENGING QUESTS, BUT I WOULDN’T LIKE TO MISS EVEN ONE DAY TOGETHER WITH YOU GUYS.”
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