Fabric Structures: Versatile, durable, relocatable, and affordable.

There aren’t many structures that offer the range of benefits you’ll find in a steel-framed fabric structure.

Versatile

Steel-framed fabric structures can be used as aircraft hangars, warehouses, fitness facilities, entry control points, aviation sunshades, and more. You can link them together, use sidewalls of varying heights, even make them roll. They can include interior office space, mezzanines, cranes, and dehumidifiers to make corrosion-free environments.

Durable

These structures are located in some of the world’s most extreme environments. There’s one in typhoon-prone Okinawa engineered to withstand wind gusts of 227 m.p.h*, and in Greenland is a structure that can handle snow loads of 65 pounds per-square-foot (UFC). A new fabric hanger just went up on the West Coast where the seismic loads are the highest in the country, while another has been operating for over 30 years, on the coast of Maine.

Relocatable

While engineered to withstand extreme conditions, and capable of operating in the same place for decades, steel-framed fabric structures can be disassembled and moved across a military base, or across the world. One fabric structure has traveled over 30,000 miles between 5 different locations.

Affordable

Because they’re pre-fabricated and assembled on site, fabric structures require far smaller crews and much less time on site. As a result they cost substantially less than traditional construction and involve much less site disruption. Equally important, they are virtually maintenance-free, which translates into much lower sustainment costs.

Contact us to learn more about the ways fabric structures are being used all over the world in a wide range of applications.

*Risk Category 2