FIRM HISTORY
Geiger Engineers was founded in 1988 by a group of professionals who have
now been collaborating on challenging engineering assignments for more
than thirty years. Geiger Engineers' staff began working together at Geiger
Associates, founded by the late David Geiger in 1968 to design the enclosure
for the United States pavilion for EXPO’70 in Osaka, Japan. For that project
David Geiger invented the low profile cable-restrained air-supported roof,
employing a super-elliptical perimeter compression ring. Within 15 years
of its completion this membrane structural system was employed to cover
more than half of the domed stadia in the world. The firm, also known
as Geiger Berger, was instrumental in the development of structural membrane
materials, such as TEFLON® coated fiberglass, and pioneered many other
long-span cable, tensile membrane, tensegrity and air-supported structures
including:
