The MERO spaceframe In the late 1930s, a German entrepreneur, Dr Ing. Max Mengeringhausen (1903–1988), developed a method of recreating the structural methods used in the natural world into construction technology, enabling structures to be built with huge spans between supports, in a lightweight and economical yet strong way. In 1943, a company was set up under the name MEngeringhausen ROhrbauweise ("Mengeringhausen's tubular structures") to produce the structures that Mengeringhausen ha… (More on Mero-schmidlin)