Products
From design through quick delivery and erection, a Rubb building is a sound but flexible investment.
Often referred to as giant tents or tent buildings, these are actually engineered fabric structures developed to ISO 9001 standards. Our superior engineering and high level of quality control have created "temporary structures" that have been in use for over 25 years.
From Design
Rubb's prefabricated, customize-able, modular designs can meet a wide range of applications.
Efficient Production
With in-house steel and fabric production, Rubb has complete control over the manufacturing process that allows for stringent quality monitoring and cost-effective operations.
Simple Foundation Preparation
One key advantage of Rubb structures is low-cost foundations. In most cases, a concrete pad or ring beam, for mounting span baseplates, is sufficient.
Quick Delivery and Erection
A small structure can be erected in hours by a crew of three aided by a lift truck with access platforms. Our largest aircraft hangar, with a span of over 250 ft., took 9 months from design to hand over.
Aviation Buildings
Rubb has supplied aircraft hangars, air cargo facilities and ground support buildings, including terminals, to numerous airlines and military organizations throughout the world. Speed of erection and low cost are attractive benefits. With some airlines the ability to relocate the hangar, terminal or air cargo facility anywhere in the world is of great importance.
Rubb hangars, air cargo and terminal aviation buildings provide a highly functional space for helicopters, military and commercial aircraft, air cargo storage and temporary or permanent air terminal expansion. With the benefits of a very bright interior, in both day and night working conditions, Rubb Aviation Buildings provide great opportunities for many airline, airport or military aircraft applications.
The hot dip galvanized structural frame and PVC exterior cladding system minimizes lifetime maintenance costs. In addition, the fire performance characteristics of the PVC membrane allows the flexibility in optimizing fire suppression systems to provide greater protection for aircraft within the hangar.
Major Commercial Airlines such as British Airways, American Airlines and United Airlines use Rubb Aircraft Hangars.
What's in a Rubb Aircraft Hangar? ...Total Quality
Rubb's unrivaled skills and experience in the aviation market enable us to design, fabricate, deliver and install responsibly engineered structures that fully meet the needs of our aviation clients.
Sports Buildings
With over 30 years' experience in design, manufacture and installation of fabric covered buildings, Rubb is now utilizing its expertise in the production of sports facilities.
The ever increasing competitiveness in sport, and its growing financial and business implications, have led to a demand for purpose built, all weather sports training and playing centers. Rubb's experience in providing such facilities in the UK, and through its associate companies in Norway and the USA, guarantees the production of a highly cost-effective building where the use of translucent fabric gives the impression of playing and training outside. At the same time, teams and individuals are provided with first class illumination and full weather protection.
Rubb has the ability to provide a complete 'turnkey' package for sports halls and training complexes, including help with planning approval and the installation of all services such as roads, drainage, mechanical and electrical services. Rubb Buildings is the ideal partner for your new sports complex.
Available in spans from 20m to 80m wide by any length, these modular building designs allow for fast delivery and installation and they can be easily reconfigured or even relocated. Adaptable to multipurpose sports uses, key features of the modular Sports Span Buildings are their low maintenance costs and lower lighting costs, due to their translucent roofs that provide high levels of natural daylight. Fabric membrane is 800 - 900 grams per square metre PVC coated polyester - with a proven 20+ year service life expectancy.
What's in a Rubb Sports Building? ...Total Quality
Funding and constructing private or public sports facilities today is a daunting task and the experts at Rubb know how to meet the challenge.
Military Buildings
Rapid supply, deployment and relocation are the key attributes of Rubb Military Shelters that make them ideally suited to military uses worldwide.
Rubb structures can be deployed wherever the need arises and recovered and then easily stored after use.
These structures are highly reliable with standardized designs that reduce the number of components allowing for compact, efficient storage and minimum inventory requirements.
Rapid supply, deployment and relocation - The key to rapid response.
View more Rubb Military Buildings information at www.rubbmilitary.com
What's in a Rubb Military Building? ...Total Quality
The design and planning flexibility, speed of construction and durable, cost effective operation of Rubb military building or shelter facility provides military services worldwide with a major competitive edge.
Port Buildings
Rubb warehouses for ports continue to grow in popularity and offer flexible, effective space and low lifetime costs.
Rubb storage buildings offer storage solutions that allow for maximum flexibility with respect to multiple handling methods and configurations. Relocating and re-using these buildings is easy and cost effective.
The PVC cladding on a Rubb structure will not corrode in a marine environment and allows the structure to accept differential settlement without the need for expensive pile foundations. These same features give Rubb an advantage when it comes to preventing leaky roofs - an issue that is common at many port facilities.
Rubb structures provide large, column free, spaces that are illuminated by natural light through the translucent roof.
This important feature allows a safer, more efficient working environment than is available in other structure types. Finally, Rubb buildings offer the most flexible planning alternative due to their ability to be efficiently reconfigured or relocated to suit the changing needs of a busy port.
What's in a Rubb Port Building? ...Total Quality
The design and planning flexibility, speed of construction and durable, cost effective operation of Rubb Buildings provide port operations worldwide with a major competitive edge.
Environmental Buildings
Rubb Environmental Structures are helping to meet health and safety requirements and environmental protection laws. They are also used by companies to foster good neighbor and green policy plans.
Rubb has provided environmental protection structures of many types to prevent airborne dust and odor pollution, to prevent algae growth in water supplies and for many other environmental applications.
Rubb tank covers prevent environmental contamination of stored liquids and specially sealed Rubb environmental protection structures serve as containments for asbestos and other harmful materials. Rubb structures can be effectively sealed to provide a negative-pressure environment.
Once a site has been cleaned up, the shelter can be used again and again - providing an ROI that far exceeds that of a traditional structure. Covers can be readily decontaminated to be used again or to be recycled when appropriate.
Reuse, Recycle or Relocate - Rubb Environmental Protection Structures provide long term value.
What's in a Rubb Environmental Shelter? ...Total Quality
Rubb's unrivaled skills and experience in the environmental market enable us to design, fabricate, deliver and install responsibly engineered structures that fully meet health and safety requirements and environmental protection laws.
Industrial Buildings
Rubb offers the versatility that industry needs. Many Rubb structures find use with multiple owners in different locations and for different applications than the structure was originally supplied for.
Very few investments in buildings offer the same total flexibility you get with Rubb - relocate, extend, or resell - all the options are always open to you.
Manufacturing industries of many types are using Rubb buildings and shelters to augment their storage or production capacity.
The inherent flexibility of Rubb buildings allows manufacturers to maximize their return on investment and lower the risk associated with managing expansion in a growing business environment.
Marine Structures
Rubb Marine Buildings are used extensively in shipyards to put large fabrication work undercover and on ships and barges to provide covered storage and dehumidified storage.
On shore, Rubb marine structures can be track mounted in sections to allow overhead crane access. Smaller workshops are easily lifted and moved around the shipyard in erected form.
Investment payback is rapid in terms of reduced downtime, improved efficiency and enhanced quality. Fitting-out can proceed in parallel with hull construction by building full size internal modules under cover and then fitting them into the hull at the appropriate time. Rubb Marine Relocatable Buildings provide affordable shipyard solutions.
As well as making structures for the marine industry on land, we also make covers for ships and barges. Dehumidified cargo cocoons provide safe transport for sensitive goods by protecting them from the seagoing environment. Ocean going barges can also be covered to carry raw materials that are sensitive to the elements.
Construction Shelters
Over the years, Rubb has supplied a large number of buildings and shelters to the construction industry for weather protection.
By getting personnel and construction materials under cover quickly and economically, work can progress at a faster pace to meet project deadlines and insure higher product quality.
The rugged nature of the Rubb construction shelter allows relocation and reuse at site after site. On many projects, the efficiencies gained by use of a Rubb shelter will pay back the cost of the structure on the initial project.
Rubb Construction Shelters are easily moved around an existing site, or quickly relocated to another site.
Emergency Relief Shelters
Rubb emergency relief shelters and buildings provide easily transported and easily erected rapid- response structures for emergency situations.
These shelters can be erected by local labor with simple tools and minimal lifting gear. Foundation requirements are simple allowing installation on a wide range of surfaces.
An emergency relief camp can be erected in a few hours, given adequate labor availability, and then can be re-deployed to meet later emergencies at other locations. Rubb emergency relief shelters are fully air transportable.
An emergency relief camp can be quickly erected using unskilled labor and experienced Rubb supervision.
Architectural Structures
Architectural specialty structures and innovative solutions.
Our experienced engineers work closely with architects to produce imaginative solutions to specific site or application problems.
Rubb's ability to provide custom fabric structures is enhanced by Rubb TM, our new specialized tension membrane structure division. Rubb TM provides innovative cost effective solutions with rugged, quickly erected tension fabric buildings that are available in a wide variety of sizes, colors and shapes.
In 1968 Rubb began making fabric covered structures in Norway and now has additional manufacturing plants in the UK and USA. Rubb TM Ltd is an extension of these facilities, specializing in tension membrane buildings that meet individual design requirements.
Each of these plants features state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and CAD systems that have been developed over the years to ensure that Rubb buildings meet stringent quality standards.
At Rubb, ISO 9000 Quality Assurance procedures are the foundation for all operations, from initial briefing through to final commissioning. Engineered fabric buildings can be designed to meet any international building code with respect to wind or snow loading and have been proven over many years in extreme climatic conditions. From Arctic to tropical and desert locations, Rubb prefabricated structures are providing outstanding service for an increasingly wide range of applications.
Bulk Storage Buildings
Relocatable Rubb bulk storage buildings offer an effective alternative to traditional bulk storage solutions.
The buildings are readily configured to accommodate conveyors and other loading methods. Retaining side walls can also be integrated to resist lateral loadings.
Rubb bulk storage buildings can be readily converted or relocated to store unitized products allowing a much more flexible storage alternative than bulk storage silos. These facilities also accommodate differential site settlement allowing simplified foundations.
An effective alternative to vertical silos that offers a flexible solution for changing cargos.
Meeting high quality bulk storage requirements is easier thanks to Rubb's custom bulk storage solutions. Rubb Bulk Storage Buildings can provide airy, translucent roof bulk storage buildings with ample natural light or provide bulk storage facilities for animal feed, which needed to be completely secured against weather and light.
In the case of sealed bulk storage, the walls consist of a steel support structure complete with pre-stressed concrete infill panels which allow for quick and easy construction. This method provides a fully sealed facility to prevent water ingress and also allows for internal retaining walls to be built for different bulk storage needs.
Rubb has the answer for bulk storage requirements.
Apart from the advantage of lower costs and speed of erection, Rubb bulk storage buildings are flexible enough to be built on ground susceptible to differential settlement and have much lower maintenance costs than traditional bulk storage facilities.
