Rubb Fabric Building News

Rubb is in a class of its own after winning a large contract which will see 12 military buildings deployed to Afghanistan throughout 2010. The company’s design team has taken the EFASS range of hangars to the next dimension with four of the structures featuring newly developed wider Helidoor technology.

Meanwhile six of the Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System buildings will be the longest ever produced at 100m in length. The six 25m span x 100m facilities will be used as storage complexes and will be completed with 5m x 5m manual Roller Shutter Doors at each end. All six shelters will be delivered before December 2010.

As well as the longest ever EFASS, Rubb is also set to provide the widest ever Helidoor. Four of the 25m span x 40m hangars will be equipped with the large 21.5m x 7.5m Helidoors. Previously the widest door supplied has measured 18.3m x 7m. Each building will be fitted with an internal roof mounted two tonne gantry crane.

These structures are destined for Afghanistan by the end of August. The final two buildings are Rubb sunshades, set for a June delivery to the same destination. The 25m x 28m shelters feature open gable ends and will be used to protect vital aircraft from searing temperatures and powerful UV rays.

This is an NV type shelter measuring 12m wide x 24m long with 5m sidewall. This is the first traditional type Rubb buildings that has been fitted with the patented “Thermohall” insulated fabric. The buildings were purchased by Hæhre Maskinutleie AS which is a company that rents out technical equipment and machines. This particular building was chosen due to the high internal clearing that is needed for large machinery which will be used to make the “Toven” tunnel in Nordland in the North of Norway. The Hæhre Group is an important Rubb customer and we are very pleased that they continue to value Rubb buildings.

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Rubb Buildings Ltd has bid a fond farewell to a man who helped lay the foundations and build the international company into the success it is today. Sales Manager Ray Colby has retired from Rubb’s UK plant after 32 years of service. Staff from the business based in Gateshead had all the celebrations covered at Ray’s retirement party at Pan Haggerty Restaurant in Newcastle on Friday, March 26. Colleagues paid tribute to Ray’s loyalty, dedication and pride in his work over the years.

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Ray began working for Rubb in 1978 and has been instrumental in helping turn the company into a world leader in the design and manufacture of relocatable fabric structures. Among Ray’s greatest achievements was securing the Ministry of Defence as one of Rubb’s regular clients. “I have worked with some great people over the years,” said Ray. “Rubb is like a family and has grown up like a family – every single person is 100 percent for the company. Without every vital cog the engine simply wouldn’t work.”

Managing Director Bill Wood thanked Ray for all his hard work, adding: “We have worked very well together over the years and I am sad to see him leave. Everyone wishes him well in his retirement.” The married father of two sons is now looking forward to a life of leisure after his dynamic sales career with Rubb.

With the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Rubb Buildings Ltd have been at the forefront of supplying hangars to the front line.

The newly developed 25m Span RES Hangar, complete with an 18m wide x 7m high aircraft door is currently being used by many different forces from around the world. To date Rubb Buildings Ltd has supplied and delivered no less than 10 hangars to various forces this year alone.

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The RES hangar can be erected, disassembled and removed easily, if required. Each hangar is constructed of a number of steel fabricated components together with uniquely designed aluminum roof and leg sections, that bolt together to form the span trusses. The leg sections connect to the roof sections and are securely anchored to footplates at 4m centers. When assembled, Insulated PVC fabric sheets slides between the aluminum extrusions of adjacent spans to form the shelter.

The most recent hangars supplied to the front line are complete with an internal 2000kg gantry crane system. The crane system has been designed for helping the users of the hangars with their daily maintenance procedures for the aircraft in the field.

In June of 2009, Rubb Building Systems was awarded a contract with CH2M-WG LLC to provide a variety of structures for the The Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP).

The ICP involves the safe, environmental cleanup of the Idaho National Laboratory site, which was contaminated with waste generated from World War II-era conventional weapons testing, government-owned research and defense reactors, laboratory research, and defense missions at other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

The 7-year, $2.9 billion cleanup project, funded through the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, focuses equally on reducing risks to workers, the public, and the environment and on protecting the Snake River Plain Aquifer, the sole drinking water source for more than 300,000 residents of eastern Idaho.

Read about other Rubb environmental remediation projects.

This is an RHA (strengthened version of THA) 12m wide by 24 long with 3.35m side wall. The Rubb shelter was supplied to Rogaland Planbygg AS at the Stjørdal base in Norway. Rogaland Planbygg AS is among Europe’s leading suppliers of temporary solutions for offices, camps, schools, kindergartens, and other module based solutions building solutions. Their main business is within the oil and gas sector but also shipbuilding, and the public sector. They offer both sale and hire. Rubbhall’s were a great complimentary product to their flexible business.

This machine is specially made for Rubb Hall AS and allows very efficient measuring out of fabric length. When the length has been set by the operator the machine automatically pulls the required length from the roll and the operator then pushes a button for semi-automatic cutting of the fabric. This means we only need one operator for fabric measuring and cutting while before we needed two. Rubb Hall AS always strives to innovate to keep costs to our customers as low as possible.

These are pictures of a Rubb THAB shelter measuring 10m wide x 24m long with 3.35m side wall. This shelter was purchased by UNHCR – Damascus, but is was erected by a Rubb crew at Al-Tawil Refugee camp in Iraq. This THAB shelter is a standard relief agency sized structure and it can store up to 500 tonnes of bagged grain. Frode Gjøen our International Sales Director and a Rubb erection supervisor traveled to Iraq to help with the installation of this structure.

Here are pictures of NV hall where Rubb Hall AS replaced the fabric on the building. This is a 10m wide x 18m long NV. The building was purchased by Harald Skare Transport (a transportation company). The new owner decided to purchase new fabric and make the old Rubb Hall look as good as new!

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Rubb Hall AS sponsored a “Bergen Stupeklubb” (Bergen Dive Board club) event called the “Bergen Open”. This was an international diving competition arranged in Bergen April 23rd – 25th, 2009. Rubb
Hall AS is a proud sponsor of this international event and look forward to following the Bergen divers in years to come.