Choosing the right Jakob system: a product-application guide
Most specifiers don’t start with a product name — they start with a problem: a bridge that needs fall protection without hiding the view, a façade that needs to breathe, a stair that needs to feel like it’s floating. Jakob makes four product lines that solve different parts of that problem, and most real projects combine more than one. This guide maps what we actually build, by application, so you can narrow the decision before the first call — not after it.
Product × application matrix
Filled dots link to a verified project or application page. Grey dots mean the combination happens occasionally, without dedicated content yet. A dash means it doesn’t apply.
| Application | Architectural Ropes |
Webnet | Frames | Green Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspension Cable Systems | ||||
| Bridge Safety | ||||
| Balustrading | ||||
| Protection and Safety | ||||
| Animal Enclosures | ||||
| Cable Art | ||||
| Sports and Fun | ||||
| Greening |
Architectural Ropes
When the project calls for pure tension or a suspended element — stair, bridge stay, façade line — with no mesh in between.
Webnet
The universal connector: transparency and fall protection across more of this catalog than any other line — 6 of the 8 applications above.
Frames
When the mesh needs a rigid structural border instead of a cable perimeter — almost always specified alongside Webnet, not instead of it.
Green Solutions
When the goal is living vegetation or a green façade — the cable grid becomes the structure a planted wall climbs on.
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These combinations, on real projects
One real project per application — six shown at a time, reshuffled on every visit.
100-meter suspended fabric-panel system on 11 stainless steel ropes, 5 mm, with an integrated lifting device.
450-foot pedestrian walkway railing in 2 mm Webnet with custom stainless steel frames.
400 linear feet of Webnet Modular Railing along a waterfront plaza, AISI 316, dual handrail heights.
600 feet of mesh coastal protection along the downtown waterfront.
1,475-foot elevated walkway enclosed in Webnet Micro mesh with 6 mm edge ropes, up to 65 feet high.
A walkable, sculptural net installation tensioned from stainless steel rope and loose Webnet.
Rooftop playground enclosure in 2 mm Webnet rope, 80 mm diamond mesh.
Vertical garden facade doubling as a passive cooling system for the building.