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Rethinking Dining Facilities – Alternative Solutions With Fabric Building Systems

When designing buildings for your mining or research sites, it’s important to include a building for dining. Workers need a place, protected from the elements, to eat and relax while they work long hours. Fabric buildings are a great option when designing mess halls for your staff. Workers will be safe in a fabric building from Alaska Structures, because they receive testing to ensure they are durable. They can withstand extreme weather like traditional buildings, but require less time and labor, making them cheaper to set up. There are other benefits to using a fabric structure besides cost and easy setup. Learn more about how to use fabric structures for cost effective dining space for your workers.

Rotomold molded plastic shipping containers and cases.

Portable Fabric Buildings

In addition to high-performance fabric buildings, Alaska Structures also makes shipping containers to help facilitate fast, easy shipments.

Fabric building camp system and mining camp

Advantages of Engineered Fabric Structures for Mining Operations

Engineered fabric buildings from Alaska Structures offer mining companies many cost-saving advantages and a versatile multipurpose design.

SQX-series Quonset Hut Fabric Shelter Camp.

Engineered Fabric Building Applications: How to Use Fabric Buildings

One of the major benefits of fabric buildings is that they are so versatile; fabric buildings are useful in many different situations. From government agencies to private businesses, many trust Alaska Structures’ fabric buildings to carry out their work operations. These fabric buildings can withstand harsh conditions and undergo careful testing from third-party engineers to ensure the products quality. Fabric buildings can be useful in any one of these situations: polar camps, aircraft hangars, oil and gas operations, mining, emergency housing systems, and recreational buildings. These buildings can work for more industries and operations than ones previously mentioned and their applications are nearly endless.

Fully operational fabric building overhead view of camp system at a cole mine in Illinois.

Health & Safety Best Practices for Man Camps

Our well-engineered and customizable fabric structures are the world’s first choice among the oil and gas industry, mining operations, remote construction sites and mineral exploration industries. Alaska Structures® designs the highest-quality health safety structures for remote worksites requiring the most rugged, durable and well-engineered fabric…

Site Trailers versus Engineered Fabric Structures: Which Is Best for Your Remote Project?

Site trailers have long been considered the standard for construction, oil & gas, mining, and mineral exploration projects. While site trailers have their uses, they aren’t always the most practical – or affordable – building solution for providing workforce housing, office space, and more. In…

Guide to Workforce Accommodations in Remote Locations

Work sites in the mining, mineral exploration, oil and gas, construction, natural resources, and research industries are often located in remote areas that tend to have harsh climates and less than optimum conditions. Such work sites tend to be geographically isolated, and not easily accessed…

Tailings Pond Enclosures Using Engineered Fabric Structures

Alaska Structures manufactures highly durable and versatile tailings pond enclosures to help mining companies reduce the environmental impact of their operations, while providing the necessary protection from the elements.

Alaska Structures XT-Series Buildings Mining Camp

The Advances of Technology & Methods of Future Mining Operations

Workforces, processes, and advances in technology are constantly changing and evolving industries around the world. When used to streamlined processes or increase efficiency, technology can make the difference for a business being more successful than competitors that are slower to adopt and implement new technologies.…

The Challenges of Mining in Remote Areas and Extreme Climates

Mining is an industry that spans the globe. It places people and equipment in in all environments, often in some of the most remote places, where conditions push the envelope for sustained human activity or survival.

Alaska Structures XT-Series Buildings Grand Teton Remote Camp

Mining, Mineral Exploration and Environmental Cleanup

The products and fuel produced from oil, gas and other mineral resources play a critical role in economic stability and industrial function. However, the processes of finding, mining and/or producing and transporting these resources may have negative consequences in terms of environmental wellbeing. There have…

GTX fabric building installed on rolling rail system

Expandable Sheltered Workspaces from our DAGB-Series Fabric Structures

It’s important to have proper shelter for equipment and employees when working out in the elements. You want to protect workers and the machines to operate our business at maximum efficiency. Not doing so will results in setbacks that increase operating costs, causing a loss in profits. GTX Series Buildings are a good option in maintaining the health of workers and the longevity of the machines. The buildings have a host of standard and custom features that ensure they will protect assets. The GTX Series buildings can be used in most industries, giving you flexibility and many possibilities.