Rubb Doors: As Unique as Your Structure

People often ask us what types of doors work with Rubb buildings and shelters — and can we accommodate their special needs, whether it be the ability to mend or transport the entire structure in the field, admit personnel, secure aircraft in harsh winter weather, maintain climate control, etc. Like our structures themselves, the door options for Rubb structures are completely flexible and can be customized to meet just about any scenario imaginable.

The simplest door used on many of our shelters and some buildings is a sophisticated roll-up curtain door, which provides ample environmental protection and isolates the comfortable working area of our structures. The disadvantage with this door, however, is the need to open and close it when used frequently, as is often required in warehouse environments. For these, the choice is often a PVC bi-parting door to protect the inside of the structure from wind, noise, dust or weather. In these set ups, the PVC may consist of sections or strips of thin transparent PVC which can recede horizontally when needed to admit vehicles, but allows unlimited pedestrian and forklift traffic when left in place. These simple and effective solutions suit many different kinds of warehouses and ports buildings, but are not as ideal for areas that expect severe winter weather or heavier amounts of use.

For heavier industrial applications, there are a number of effective solutions which vary depending on the specific requirements of the project. Rubb will coordinate the installation of any sort of personnel doors in addition to large doors such as roller shutter doors, vertical rising doors or fabric panel doors. For our aircraft hangars, we’ve used Norco bi-parting hangar doors and MegaDoors to meet the needs of major commercial aircraft carriers. These are the kinds of doors you’ll see at the United Airways hangar at Logan Airport or AirTran hangar in Atlanta, Georgia.

For a Rubb structure that will be frequently used in remote areas of the world, we have designed our own lines of flexible, relocatable and maintainable fabric doors. The zipper door used on our Rapid Deployment Shelter (RDS) was specifically designed with ruggedness, relocatability, and easy assembly in mind, and the entire shelter (which is easily 20′ x 20′) can be erected in less than two hours with a team of four.

Even more significant is our innovative Trident fabric door, used in our Rapid Environmental Shelter. The Trident door, like the structure it encloses, is designed to suffer through heavy snow and wind loads and is shaped to comfortably fit helicopters and aircraft. The Trident door, like the zip-up shelter door, is made out of a fabric that is easily repaired in the field, making it ideal for long-term deployment and reuse by military operations. In tune with the Rubb dedication to relocatability, the whole structure can be easily packed into an ISO container and transported as forces are moved.

Simple or complex, heavy-duty or rapidly transportable, Rubb structures accommodate the door your project requires. Whether one of our designs, or that of a leading door manufacturer, we can design the structure to meet your requirements no matter what the environmental, transportation or usage requirements.