Rubb Fabric Building News

John Poulin, and Troy Cupp of Rubb Buildings will be exhibiting at the Breakbulk Americas Convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 25-27, 2011. Please stop by booth #454 to see Rubb’s extensive product line including our new standard product offering called Rubb Standard. 

Breakbulk Americas is the largest and most important gathering in the Americas for companies involved in the shipping of heavy-lift, project cargo and traditional break bulk cargoes.

Exhibitors include the world’s major carriers, forwarders and ports that handle specialized heavy-lift, project and break bulk cargoes. In addition to a bustling exhibition floor, Breakbulk Americas will feature a 2-day conference with top speakers addressing industry issues. The in-depth program will delve into today’s most pressing break bulk transportation topics. Speakers will also discuss the hottest regions for break bulk and project cargo, and review sectors such as oil and gas, and other power generation markets.

This THAB Type building was erected in late spring 2010 for an automobile recycling company in Olawa. The building measures 8m x 21m long and is used to store automobile parts while keeping them out of the elements.

Rubb geared up to deliver a military quad bike storage facility to DST Leconfield. Installation of the 20m x 20m NV building was completed at the site in June. The NV features 5m x 5m roller shutter doors at each gable end and will be used to store quad bikes.

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Rubb Buildings Ltd worked with the main contractor Carillion to bring the facility to the Defence School of Transport at Normandy Barracks, near Beverley. Leconfield DST is the center of excellence for driver training and teaches up to 14,000 people every year to drive trucks, tanks and other military vehicles.

The NV type building comes from Rubb’s first range of trussed span structures. The design originated in Norway and the high arch of the roof makes this building ideal for bulk storage.

Bring Logistics, on the Island of Stord off Norway’s west coast, has recently rented a Rubb Building for general storage. This is an FX Type building insulated with the Rubb "Thermohall" system. The building measures 20m wide by 30m long with 6m side walls. Rubb also supplied a motorized roller door 4.5m high by 4.5m wide with an integrated personnel door. The building also features an emergency exit door at the other end of the building, lighting (approx. 350 lux), two air mixers and heating.

Bring Logistics is a complete transport and logistics supplier in Norway. The company is a result of the amalgamation of Nor-Cargo, Box Solutions, packages department of the Norwegian Post, and Nettlast AS. The company’s goal is to be the leading Nordic supplier of transport and logistics services.

Rubb has recently finished fabrication for a new salt storage facility for the Town of Sanford, Maine. After two years of providing several options to the town, a 70ft (21.34m) x 80ft (24.39m) BVE Rubb structure with 16.4ft (5m) sidewalls was chosen.

The structure is designed to 70 psf ground snow load and 90 mph wind load with a 3 psf collateral. The Town of Sanford likes the Rubb design as the white roof provides a naturally lit interior and the structure provides flexibility for growth. This structure will provide a salt storage capacity of 2,686 tons. The leg trusses and gable columns will be powder coated to provide another layer of protection from the highly caustic aspects of salt.

Rubb Building Systems and Cocoon, Inc. recently collaborated in the design, delivery and installation of eight maintenance hangars and two sun shades for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The hangars and sunshades are designed to accommodate Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) and were provided as part of a major ramp expansion project at the Kandahar Airbase, Afghanistan.

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The hangars will fulfill critical maintenance activities. The hangars are designed to meet specific aircraft clearance envelope requirements and environmental and other load conditions including:

• support for suspended equipment
• full internal fire protection systems
• supporting utilities.

The structures are engineered for full compliance with U.S. building code requirements for full wind, snow and seismic loads. As with all Rubb products, the hangar offers the flexibility to be relocated in standard ISO containers should future needs warrant this.

Rubb AS has recently erected a Type FX building measuring 12m wide x 46m long with 6m sidewall for Caam AS. This is a property company that rents out the building to Itella Logsitics AS. They use the Rubb Building for general storage and distribution.

This building is insulated with the patented Rubb "Thermohall" technology to provide an environmentally friendly building. Rubb has supplied the structure with three motorized doors (2.97m x 3.7m) with integrated personnel doors. The building was also supplied with lights and an internal partition wall.

Rubb AS has supplied an FX type storage building to Peder Halvorsen Industrier in Norway. This building is located at Øyestranda and measures 14m x 33m with a 4m sidewall. The customer had a special request for a white building and as Rubb always puts the customer first we naturally supplied what the customer wanted.

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In 1842 Halvor Sørensen started a ship repair yard in Allègaten, Flekkefjord, Norway. He had come to Flekkefjord from the county of Telemark to carry out special work on the Lista Lighthouse. In time, his son Søren Halvorsen gradually took over the business, marking the start of a tradition in the company of management passing from father to son. In 1939, Halvor Sørensen’s great grandson Peder Halvorsen began to work in the company. Peder Halvorsens Industrier AS is a large supplier to the offshore market in Norway. The company is in the forefront on topics such as heat, steam, and pressure.

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Lillebø Sand & Transport is a company based in Oltedalen, Ålgård in Gjesdal Kommune in Norway. Rubb Hall AS have supplied a Rubbhall (type NV) which is 12m wide x 26m long with 4m side wall. Rubb supplied two 5m x 5m doors, one in each end. These are standard steel “Rubb doors” which we have designed and manufactured. These are robust folding doors that require very little maintenance. Lilleby Sand & Transport supply large quantities of sand and stone to the concrete industry in Rogaland (South West coast of Norway). They have a further two such facilities in the area. The Rubb building is used to dry sand before it is used for making concrete.

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Rubb Hall AS has manufactured several of its THAB range of shelters to UNHCR over the year. These shelters have been lent by UNHCR to GTZ. GTZ is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. GTZ promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis. The Rubb shelters are located in Juba, South Sudan and are used for general storage. They are standard UN size measuring 10m wide x 24m long with 3.35m sidewall.