The above 10m wide x 15m long NV-type building was supplied by Rubb Hall AS to SKJØNDAL Slipp. Rubb Hall AS also supplied lighting and dehumidifier for this building and installed a 4m x 4m steel folding door. The building is used for storage of large ship engines which are in the shipyard for service.
SKJØNDAL Slipp repairs and maintains ship engines, particularly fast diesel engines, and is part of the “Bergen Group” which own many shipyards in Norway. SKJØNDAL Slip and partner company Mek Verksted AS are located very close to the Bergen city center and have their own deep sea harbor to handle ships up to 80m in length and 4m deep. The company has a slipway that can handle vessels up to 44m in length and 12,5 m wide.
The above pictured 20m x 42m NV-type building is owned by Aker Solutions and located on Stord, an island south of Bergen, Norway. This building dates back to the 1980s and Rubb Hall AS recently changed the fabric on the building that was well over 20 years old. The galvanized framework was in excellent condition so it was a simple task to replace the fabric in a few days.
Life expectancy of the fabric on a Rubb building is comparable to the life of a conventionally roofed building, and the cost to replace fabric on a building is competitive with the costs to re-roof a building. The life expectancy of the galvanized frame is significantly longer; as in this case, after 20 years the frame will typically show little to no damage and be expected to last for decades longer.
Aker Solutions AS is one of Norway’s largest offshore/oil platform related yards. They manufacture some of the largest oil platforms in the North Sea and are presently finalizing the building of two very large deep sea oil platforms. These platforms are specially made to tolerate severe weather conditions in areas like the Barents Sea and can also operate on extreme depths. Aker have had Rubb Buildings for over 30 years and Rubb Hall AS is continuously re-covering some of the older Rubb structures.
Rubb Hall AS collaborated with Aluminor Structures to create the above pictured flood prevention barriers, which are also patented by Aluminor Structures. As demonstrated in the photo, the flood prevention system has been tested at a dry dock in Norway. The PVC “sausages” were successfully inflated by the water test and kept the “flood waters” at bay.
Aluminor Structures is an engineering, architectural and technical consultancy/services company based in Haugesund, Norway and this system provides an economical and effective flood barrier.
The above pictured 10m wide x 24m long THA was erected by Rubb Poland for Mapei International. It is intended for use as a general storage building in the village of Jeszkowice, Poland.
Mapei is an Italian group which makes chemical products and adhesives for use in the construction industry, and recently expanded into Poland in an effort to increase their share of the market. Mapei operates internationally with 39 factories across the world and operations in 80 countries.
The above photos show a prototype Rubb Poland is developing for a sliding door. The prototype is designed to work with Rubb shelters and measures 3m x 3m. This door is intended as an effective and economical sliding door option for all types of shelters.
The above 10m x 24m THA was manufactured by Rubb Poland in the city of Konin. While structurally it is comparable with a standard THA shelter, it has been outfitted with wheels allowing for easy on-site moving of the structure.
This morning the Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) test vehicle was successfully fired off at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. As reported in this blog, Rubb supplied the structure that kept the launch pad under cover while the MLAS was being readied. In the video above, you can see the white Rubb building in the foreground at the time of launch, about 2:04 minutes into the video. Photographs of the launch are viewable here.
Last autumn, Rubb Buildings Ltd manufactured and delivered a high tech Indoor Sports Hall for Taunton Vale Sports Club. The contract was awarded from tender, and included a 24m Span x 38m Long x 8m sidewall indoor sports hall.
The Rubb Building included an inner-skin and insulation package, steel clad sidewalls (3m high), sports rebound boards both fixed and removable, a high class lighting system providing 750lux, a ventilation system and a Gas fired Ambi-rad heating system.
The building has been designed around the specifications for indoor courts as stipulated by England Netball. However Rubb also used their design expertise, to ensure that the Sports hall may be used for other sports such as Badminton, Basketball, Soccer, and Hockey.
Rubb Inc. recently observed the lift and transport of a Rubb BVE range structure. East Coast construction firm, Cianbro Inc., needed to move the Rubb building from a site in South Portland to one in Portland, Maine. A mobile crane moved the 10-ton building across a construction yard and a floating crane lifted the building onto a barge platform. The barge and accompanying building then crossed the ½ mile wide Fore River to the Portland site. The lift and transport of the building finished in roughly four hours.
