North Country Union High School of Newport, Vermont recently took delivery of their 40′ x 100′ BVE Range Rubb Building to use for storage. Rubb’s BVE building design provided the school with a rigid structure that would stand up to the heavy snow and windloads associated with Vermont winters. Rubb, Inc. worked with the school’s general contractor, Spates Construction, to successfully design and install this structure.
Garland Construction was hired to repair an existing Rubb THA shelter at the USPS Springfield Bulk Mail Center. The existing structure had sustained a considerable amount of damage from past usage. It was decided that a complete replacement was the best answer which included a heavy duty concrete wall supplied by Garland Construction. The new shelter measures 26.2’ feet by 30 feet. The track operated PVC folding door was extended to allow for the poured foundation which also makes it easier for equipment to operate in the building.
Ocean Transportation Services recently accepted delivery of their 20’ x 53.4’ BVR Range Rubb building for use as a sensitive equipment cover on their barge. Once the barge arrives at its destination, the Rubb building is crane-lifted on to the dock, dismantled and packaged for a truck shipment back to the original site. Ease of disassembly and the ability to lift the structure via crane were key design attributes of the Rubb structure.
We received this email a few days ago, and its content was so uplifting that I feel it’s entirely appropriate to be shared at this time of year:
My name is Mary Thatcher (Chapman) and I worked at Rubb from July 1999 to November 2001. I loved my job there and Rubb always treated me well. I worked under Steve Gagnon in the weld shop. I am currently in the Army and I am deployed to Iraq. When I was back in the shop welding on the Kuwait contract, I never thought I’d see the finished product first hand. When I deployed to Iraq in September 2009, we were held in Kuwait until flights were arranged. During my time in Kuwait we stayed in one of the tents that Rubb had built. It was great to see the buildings and know that I was once part of the team that built them. All the hours everyone put in making sure the job got out on time and that it was of the best quality really made a difference in the quality of life for the soldiers who had to passed thru there. I’m glad to see that in the struggling economy that a great company such as yourselves is still strong and alive with business.
I’d like to say hello to all of those I once worked with if they are still kicking around. Maybe if ya’ll (Rubb) are still around when I get finished with my service I might come knocking to see if you need a welder… Just seeing those buildings made me smile and remember how much I loved working there and the great co-workers I had around me. Leaving the country for the first time, Kuwait is not the most up lifting place. So many sand storms you can’t even see the skyline, no sun, no stars nothing but the sand. For me it was kinda hard at first but just seeing a piece of my past put a smile on my face! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone at Rubb USA!
Sincerly,
Mary Thatcher
Thank you, Mary! Merry Christmas to all from everyone at Rubb!
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.
The above 32.8′ x 30′ THA shelter was constructed for Anchor Fence, a Maine-based installer of custom fences, landscape accessories and outdoor furniture. The shelter features a track-operated PVC folding door and will be used for storage at their Kennebunk, Maine facility.
Anchor Fence contacted Rubb, Inc. to replace an existing building provided by others that had failed. The owner of Anchor Fence had been aware of the Rubb building design and has seen locally that the THA shelter line with the proper care can sustain the snowy winters associated with Southern Maine.
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.
Rubb has recently completed a structure covering the launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility for the MLAS (Max Launch Abort System) project. The BVE-range building is 50 feet in length, width and height. The 25-ton building is equipped with Hilman rollers that allow it to be retracted 200 feet from the launch pad in under thirty minutes. This tight-timeframe project had to be finished in time to meet the launch schedule, currently set for 6:15 am EDT on July 8, 2009. The launch status will be updated online through Twitter at http://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops.
The Rubb aircraft hangar that was built for AirTran Airways in Atlanta, Georgia appeared on the NBC Today Show in a feature describing the installation of WiFi equipment in all of AirTran’s aircraft.
AirTran Airways will be the first airline to completely equip all its aircraft with this capability and the work will be accomplished in the Rubb hangar at AirTran’s Maintenance Facility at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia
In June of 2009, Rubb Building Systems was awarded a contract with CH2M-WG LLC to provide a variety of structures for the 
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