Fabric Building
Create or expand on-site facilities with fabric building systems from Alaska Structures.
A Fabric Building for Any Application
Alaska Structures®, a division of AKS Industries, Inc., is the world’s leading provider of engineered fabric structures and turnkey camp systems. Our modular building systems offer many advantages compared to metal buildings, concrete buildings and traditional building construction.
We offer an extensive catalog of field-tested designs for industrial buildings, commercial buildings, governmental buildings and more. Whether you need to rapidly expand manufacturing capabilities, build mission-critical facilities for business continuity or install an entire camp system in a remote location, we’re confident our fabric buildings will be the ultimate solution to save your organization time and help you begin operations.
Select a product below to learn how fabric buildings from Alaska Structures support businesses and operations worldwide.
If you have an urgent fabric building or portable camp requirement, call us at +1-907-344-1565, email inquiry@alaskastructures.com or complete our online contact form.
Remote Camp Systems and Workforce Accommodations
Whether it’s a four-person exploration camp for the mineral exploration industry or a 1,500-person turnkey construction camp that requires workforce housing, portable kitchens and on-site storage buildings, we specifically engineer each camp system from Alaska Structures to offer an unmatched level of safety, durability and rapid installation in remote and extreme areas anywhere in the world.
The location shouldn’t limit where you can set up camp or affect its quality. Portable fabric buildings from Alaska Structures allow you to quickly establish an exploration or fly-in camp with all the facilities you need, anywhere in the world. Once the job is complete, you can disassemble, repack and quickly relocate your camp facilities to the next jobsite. Additionally, you can sling-load our portable buildings and fly them fully assembled to your organization’s next remote camp location.
We can configure and scale turnkey camp systems from Alaska Structures to accommodate crews and labor forces from 10 to 5,000 people. We understand that companies operating in remote areas need on-site services and high-end accommodation levels to attract and retain workers. At the higher end of the spectrum, companies want to provide workers with hotel-like services, including catering, housekeeping, laundry and access to recreation activities and facilities. With Alaska Structures, you can create a “home-away-from-home” experience.
Whether your organization needs a university campus dining hall or an on-site dining facility for a 5,000-person around-the-clock mining camp in a remote part of the world, Alaska Structures provides dining facilities of all sizes. We can design dining facilities from Alaska Structures as self-contained or connected to existing infrastructure for cafeteria expansion projects. Our high-performance fabric buildings offer many advantages over traditional brick-and-mortar construction.
Our modular office buildings serve a wide range of industries, including mining, mineral exploration, construction, oil and gas, utilities, energy, manufacturing, education and forestry. Mobile offices from Alaska Structures offer many advantages over jobsite trailers and container offices. Choose from many building models, sizes and configurations to create the perfect modular office building for your jobsite.
Maintain sanitary conditions, personal hygiene and good worksite morale, even in the dirtiest and most remote jobs with mine dry facilities from Alaska Structures. We can configure our mine dry facilities with an array of convenience packages, depending on your mining camp requirements.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures are an excellent solution for gymnasiums, indoor athletic facilities and indoor training facilities. Customers use our high-performance fabric structures for seasonal and year-round sports. Our fabric buildings are fast to set up and have the unmatched ability to be quickly taken down, which allows customers to install a temporary athletic facility during a remodel or expansion project. Alternatively, customers can install our fabric buildings and leave them in place as permanent indoor sports facilities for soccer fields, aquatic centers and indoor tennis courts.
You can leverage our manufacturing expertise to quickly provide the ultimate church building solution. Fabric structures for churches and worship facilities offer many benefits over traditional construction approaches, like wood, concrete or metal buildings. For example, our fabric structures are highly adaptable, can quickly expand, have short construction times and are highly durable.
Whether you have a governing body like the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) mandating workers have survival shelters when working away from base camp or want to provide emergency shelters as part of your mine rescue or emergency preparedness plan, Alaska Structures is the leading survival shelter supplier. We design our survival and emergency shelters to protect workers from sudden and extreme weather conditions.
Mission-Critical Facilities
You can quickly establish mission-critical facilities, ensure essential services and continue operations with high-performance fabric buildings from Alaska Structures. Our fabric buildings offer minimal foundation requirements, fast installation times and configurable options to create or expand mission-critical facilities at any location.
Warehouse Structures and Storage Facilities
At Alaska Structures, we have a long-standing reputation and proven track record of providing industrial warehouses and storage buildings of any size. We design our engineered fabric buildings to endure extreme weather conditions, and they feature an open-span design to maximize usable interior space. Additionally, we engineer every Alaska Structures industrial warehouse or storage facility to meet specific wind and snow loads, as required by local codes or the International Building Code (IBC) for safety and lasting durability.
Core shacks and core storage facilities from Alaska Structures quickly create the ability for on-site storage. We make small core shacks for exploration camps that need a rapidly deployable shelter solution, and you can set them up in less than 10 minutes. Furthermore, we offer large core storage facilities to any size. To meet your project requirements, we offer many different building models, sizes and configurations to create ideal core storage facilities.
Bulk Material Storage and Handling Structures
Alaska Structures is the leading manufacturer of engineered fabric buildings for salt, sand and frac sand storage. Our bulk storage buildings offer clients shorter construction times, numerous building designs and open-span interiors that allow trucks, front-loaders and plows to safely operate inside the structure. We engineer our salt and sand storage facilities to meet the International Building Code (IBC) to ensure safety and stability against area-specific wind and snow loads.
Alaska Structures provides overland conveyors and pipeline enclosures. Starting at 8 feet wide, our conveyor and pipeline enclosures allow organizations to quickly respond to environmental mandates and protect sensitive areas from fugitive dust and wind-blown debris. The tensioned fabric membranes of our conveyor enclosures are chemically inert, and we can powder-coat our metal frame systems for increased corrosion resistance. Clients can securely anchor our pipeline and conveyor enclosures to virtually any surface, which drastically reduces construction times. In fact, Alaska Structures holds the record for the world’s longest fabric building.
With over 2.5 million miles of pipelines, the U.S. and Canada rely heavily on pipelines’ economic benefits to transport large volumes of crude oil, refined petroleum, fuels, gases, water and wastewater. Compared to traditional shipping methods (e.g., railroad, truck), pipelines offer a lower cost per unit and a higher capacity. Alaska Structures has been instrumental in successfully constructing, operating and expanding these pipeline facilities. We provide engineered fabric buildings to protect pipelines and pump stations for year-round operation in harsh and remote locations.
Maintenance Buildings and Vehicle Storage Structures
At Alaska Structures, we design workshops and industrial work buildings for ease of use. Clients can set them up and leave them in place or take them down for movement or expansion as building requirements change. We offer a large selection of building models, sizes and configurations to create the perfect workshop. Furthermore, we engineer fabric buildings to meet area-specific wind and snow loads, as required by local codes or the International Building Code (IBC) for safety and durability.
Whether it’s a 100-bus maintenance facility supporting the Department of Transportation (DOT), your local transportation authority or a school district’s maintenance of an entire bus fleet, Alaska Structures produces fabric building systems to meet your project’s vehicle storage, maintenance and repair facility needs. Save money from costly downtime with on-site facilities to maintain and store equipment and vehicles.
Aircraft Hangar Facilities
Traditional hangar construction is expensive and limits you to one location for the building’s lifetime. As a result, many aircraft owners rent hangar space for thousands of dollars monthly rather than build their own hangar facilities. Although this may be a less expensive short-term option, with flexibility and easy relocation, long-term costs can quickly equal or exceed the costs of hangar construction. Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures are a great solution for quickly building aircraft hangars.
Resort & Entertainment Facilities
Alaska Structures® offers highly portable and virtually maintenance-free structures, ideal for outdoor event venues that demand quick construction times and minimal site preparation. Our American-made fabric buildings boast industry-leading longevity and rugged durability, ensuring lower overall costs. They feature many configurable options, making them the perfect choice for venues needing a fast, reliable outdoor event structure.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® provide ski lodges and resorts with warming huts unmatched in durability and efficiency, featuring minimal tool and foundation requirements for rapid deployment in remote locations. These American-made fabric structures are engineered to meet area-specific wind and snow loads per local and International Building Code (IBC) safety standards, ensuring ski resorts can quickly provide guests with a safe, cozy retreat.
For downhill skiing and racing events, Alaska Structures® offers high-quality fabric buildings ideal for creating single-event or seasonal start gates. Our start gates are designed for fast setups and portability, thanks to their minimal tool and foundation requirements, making them a perfect start gate solution for remote locations. Event organizers favor our American-made start gates because of their rugged durability and virtually maintenance-free design.
Family entertainment centers made using fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® offer an innovative and cost-saving solution for family entertainment centers, providing a durable and versatile space that families can enjoy year-round, regardless of weather conditions. These American-made fabric structures are designed for quick assembly and minimal maintenance, ensuring a permanent or relocatable venue for a wide range of entertainment activities, from indoor playgrounds to laser tag arenas, with the added benefits of lower construction costs and industry-leading longevity.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® provide an elegant and innovative solution for hotels looking to enhance their outdoor facilities and elevate the guest experience, offering versatile, weather-resistant spaces for events, dining, or relaxation. Our fabric structures blend American-made quality with minimal maintenance requirements, allowing hotels to expand their amenities with aesthetically pleasing, durable, and quickly deployable spaces that promise lower construction costs and a unique ambiance that guests will remember.
Our multipurpose fabric buildings offer golf courses a premium solution to elevate their outdoor facilities and enhance the guest experience, providing luxurious, weatherproof spaces for events, dining, or pro shops. These engineered fabric structures are designed with American-made quality and efficiency, ensuring quick deployment and minimal maintenance, allowing golf courses to offer an upscale ambiance and versatile amenities that meet the high expectations of their guests.
Engineered fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® present ski resorts and lodges with the ultimate upgrade for their outdoor facilities. Our fabric buildings offer guests an unparalleled experience with luxurious, insulated spaces for dining, events, or relaxation in a snowy setting. Our fabric structures are crafted with American-made durability and efficiency. They provide quick installation and low maintenance solutions that allow ski destinations to extend their amenities with weather-resistant, aesthetically appealing venues that enhance guest comfort and satisfaction.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® offer versatile and customizable solutions for the entertainment industry, ideally suited for movie sets, TV shows, and commercial shoots, whether used as dynamic backdrops in front of the camera or as essential onsite support facilities. Our engineered fabric structures are designed for rapid deployment and adaptability, meeting the specific needs of each project with their durable, American-made quality, ensuring production teams have reliable, aesthetically pleasing, and functional spaces for any filming requirement.
Our fabric buildings create state-of-the-art indoor practice and training facilities, including gymnasiums and athletic centers, catering to a wide range of sports and recreational activities. Our engineered fabric structures are tailored to meet the specific needs of athletes and teams, offering spacious, durable, and versatile environments with minimal construction time, ensuring year-round use in a controlled, high-quality indoor setting that enhances performance and user experience.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® offer unparalleled portable and permanent solutions for stage covers and concert halls, ideal for hosting short performances, operating seasonal facilities, or establishing year-round permanent performance centers. Our engineered fabric structures blend seamlessly into any setting, providing acoustically sensitive environments and robust, weather-resistant shelters that ensure optimal performance conditions and audience experience, all while showcasing American-made quality and rapid deployment capabilities.
Commercial & Retail Facilities
Do you need a versatile and dynamic building solution for a pop-up shop or rental facility, perfectly tailored for seasonal ventures and year-round commercial opportunities? Engineered fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® are designed for quick assembly and disassembly, providing businesses with a portable, durable, and aesthetically appealing space that can adapt to various retail and rental needs, ensuring an exceptional customer experience with minimal setup time and lower operational costs.
Engineered fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® offer auto dealerships an innovative solution to create eye-catching vehicle displays, covered parking areas, detailing stations, and new vehicle delivery booths, enhancing the customer experience and dealership aesthetics. These engineered structures provide a versatile, durable, and visually appealing environment that can be quickly deployed. They offer a flexible and cost-saving option for dealerships looking to elevate their facility’s functionality and showcase appeal with minimal construction time.
The WeatherPort® brand of fabric buildings (from Alaska Structures®) offers retail greenhouses that cater to the needs of big box retail chains, family-owned markets, hardware stores, and nurseries worldwide, supporting both seasonal and year-round horticultural operations. Our retail greenhouses are engineered for durability, providing an ideal climate-controlled environment for plants, enhancing the shopping experience for customers, and offering a versatile, aesthetically pleasing design that can withstand various weather conditions, ensuring operational continuity and profitability for businesses in the horticulture industry.
Fabric buildings from Alaska Structures® provide an ideal solution for restaurants looking to expand their operations by quickly transforming open space into an inviting covered outdoor seating or dining area. Our WeatherPort® brand of high-quality fabric structures offers a durable, weather-resistant, and aesthetically pleasing environment that enhances the dining experience, allowing restaurants to accommodate more guests comfortably and safely, regardless of the weather, ensuring a seamless extension of their service space with minimal disruption.
High-Performance School Buildings and Classroom Structures
Engineered fabric buildings are an excellent solution for quickly creating temporary classrooms, modular classrooms and permanent school buildings. Once set up, our tensioned fabric buildings are virtually maintenance-free, which drastically reduces the costs of maintaining aging school infrastructure. Our high-performance school buildings swiftly expand classroom capacity, feature energy-efficient designs with temperature-controlled interiors and offer easy relocation when the school’s needs change.
Exercise is crucial to students’ well-being. Educators can’t put that well-being on hold due to budgetary constraints or timelines that get in the way of having adequate facilities. With engineered fabric buildings from Alaska Structures, you can create the perfect gymnasium, athletic facility or recreational facility for your school. Compared to traditional buildings, our high-quality fabric structures drastically reduce construction schedules and have lower maintenance costs. Moreover, you can easily expand, reconfigure and relocate them as needed.
Does your school need a lunchroom capable of feeding hundreds of students at a time? Or does your school require a large building to provide kitchen and cafeteria space capable of feeding thousands of students at a time? Alaska Structures provides dining facilities of all sizes. We offer turnkey building solutions complete with lighting and electrical systems, HVAC, windows, doors and more to meet your school’s unique dining facility requirements.
Our high-performance fabric buildings are expertly designed to transform outdoor spaces into innovative and adaptive outdoor learning environments, catering to the evolving needs of educational institutions. These structures provide a durable, safe, and comfortable setting for students and teachers, offering a versatile space that supports a wide range of educational activities and programs, enabling year-round learning opportunities in a naturally lit and ventilated environment that positively enhances the educational experience.
Does your school need a building solution to transform a schoolyard into an all-weather playground, ensuring children can safely enjoy outdoor activities year-round? Our playground shelters are engineered for durability and safety, providing a weather-resistant, comfortable environment that encourages physical activity and play in any season, enhancing the overall school experience for students.
Homeless Navigation Centers
With a focus on application-specific design, our rapidly deployable building solutions are ideal to address the growing need for homeless shelters, respond to emerging humanitarian crises or provide living facilities for refugees fleeing their homes. We can equip fabric buildings from Alaska Structures with energy-saving insulation systems and HVAC to create a temperature-controlled facility, shielding those in need from extreme heat and cold. In fact, we engineer our fabric structures for safety, and clients can install them on virtually any level surface. For ease of use, clients can also quickly take them down and move them as needed.
Medical Shelters and First Responder Structures
We engineer each medical clinic from Alaska Structures to provide an unmatched level of safety, durability and rapid installation in remote and extreme environments. Our portable medical clinics are fully enclosed. Clients can connect them either end to end or through corridors, allowing patients and medical staff to move easily within the facility. Optional insulation, HVAC, power generation and power distribution systems provide energy-efficient solutions for creating comfortable interior environments.
A fire station needs to support both the needs of fire department personnel and the community. Staff must have areas to store vehicles and firefighting equipment, to work and to live during long shifts. Fire station buildings from Alaska Structures quickly create spaces for training, administrative offices, equipment and vehicle storage, vehicle maintenance, kitchens, bathrooms, dormitories or private rooms, recreation rooms and hazardous materials storage.
Whether you’re under a mandate to provide workers with survival shelters or your organization requires you to provide first responders and rescue crews with emergency shelters in remote locations, Alaska Structures offers rapidly deployable shelters capable of being set up in less than 10 minutes. We can equip our survival and emergency shelters with heaters or HVAC systems to protect crews from extreme heat and cold.
When large-scale disasters happen, first responders, response organizations and government agencies rush in to provide life-saving support. One of the critical factors for reducing casualties, especially when existing medical facilities have been compromised, is to deploy portable medical shelters, mobile command centers and mobile field hospitals that can provide advanced care. BLU-MED Response Systems® is a division of AKS Industries™ and focuses on providing military-grade medical facilities … when and where needed™.
Government agencies, state and city health departments, hospitals, urgent care facilities, emergency management, first responders, retailers and pharmacies may need to quickly establish drive-through testing facilities or vaccination shelters for infectious diseases. If so, they find our rapidly deployable structures the superior choice compared to typical pop-up canopies or party tents. Our engineered fabric structures meet your organization’s building requirements, and clients can install them on virtually any level surface for safe, year-round use.
WeatherPort® Building Solutions
The WeatherPort® yurt is the world’s only steel-framed, tensioned fabric yurt, uniquely engineered to withstand high wind and heavy snow loads. It is perfect for campgrounds and resorts seeking a modern, luxury yurt experience. Its fast setup design allows for quick and easy installation, transforming any location into a high-end accommodation that merges the traditional charm of yurt living with the reliability and comfort demanded by today’s outdoor enthusiasts.
WeatherPort® heavy-duty canopies are designed for unparalleled portability, fast setup, and supreme durability, capable of withstanding high winds and heavy snow loads for dependable year-round use. Available in 4-, 6-, and 8-sided models, these canopies provide versatile and robust shelter solutions for various applications, from outdoor retail spaces and dining areas to event venues and recreational shelters, ensuring lasting performance and adaptability in any setting.
WeatherPort® promotional canopies go beyond the limitations of traditional pop-up canopies, offering a heavy-duty solution engineered for outdoor use that combines unmatched durability, portability, and ease of installation. Tailored for companies aiming to elevate their brand presence, these canopy structures are available in a vast selection of sizes and colors, complemented by full-color logo printing services, making them the definitive choice for impactful and long-lasting promotional efforts in any environment.
WeatherPort® carports and portable garages are available in a broad array of sizes and models, ensuring a perfect fit for any vehicle storage requirement, from personal cars to larger recreational vehicles. Engineered to withstand your region’s specific wind and snow loads, these structures guarantee superior durability and protection, offering a reliable and long-lasting solution for safeguarding vehicles against the elements.
WeatherPort® RV carports are configured with a wide range of fabric-building models tailored to meet your RV storage’s specific dimensions and protective needs. Our heavy-duty fabric structures are engineered to withstand your area’s unique wind and snow loads, providing a superior RV enclosure that ensures long-lasting durability and protection against the elements.
WeatherPort® boat storage facilities are innovatively designed for quick assembly, offering seasonal or year-round protection to extend the life of boats and watercraft. These durable fabric structures are crafted to shield your maritime investments from the elements, ensuring superior, long-lasting durability and safeguarding against environmental wear. They are an ideal choice for any boating enthusiast seeking reliable storage solutions.
Outdoor event structures from WeatherPort® (a brand of Alaska Structures®) are expertly crafted to transform any outdoor space into a versatile venue for gatherings of all kinds, providing weatherproof comfort and security that anchors reliably to any level ground surface, from lawns to concrete. Designed for rapid setup and adaptable for seasonal or year-round use, these heavy-duty fabric structures offer a durable and protective environment for events, ensuring a memorable experience for guests.
WeatherPort® backyard greenhouses stand out as a superior alternative to traditional greenhouse kits, offering an efficient assembly process completed in hours—not days or weeks—allowing for installation on virtually any level surface. These durable greenhouse structures provide a reliable solution for seasonal or year-round growing, enabling enthusiasts and gardeners alike to cultivate their plants in a controlled, protective environment that enhances growth and productivity.
WeatherPort® retail greenhouses offer unparalleled flexibility, available in a variety of sizes and easily outfitted with an extensive selection of options, including windows, doors, metal shelving, hanging bars, lighting, electrical, and ventilation systems to align with specific retail and cultivation requirements perfectly. These greenhouse structures provide an optimal environment for plant growth and retail display, ensuring that nurseries, garden centers, and agricultural businesses can efficiently meet operational needs and customer expectations with a professional and productive setup.
WeatherPort® swimming pool enclosures are designed to enable year-round swimming enjoyment, significantly reducing the need for chemicals and minimizing maintenance and upkeep efforts, allowing more quality pool time for you and your family. Our swimming pool enclosures offer an ideal solution for homeowners and commercial facilities, providing a durable, weather-resistant structure that ensures a clean, safe, and comfortable swimming environment regardless of the season.
WeatherPort® hunting cabins offer a durable, weatherproof retreat for hunters seeking comfort and warmth after a day in the wilderness, combining heavy-duty fabric structures with insulation and heating options. Our hunting cabins come with various configurable features, creating a space that meets the specific needs of any hunting excursion, providing a secure and cozy basecamp to relax and recount the day’s hunting adventures.
Military Shelter Systems
Alaska Defense™, the military division of AKS Industries™, is the world’s leading manufacturer of military shelter systems for the U.S. Military, NATO Forces and other Allied Forces. Since 1999, personnel have deployed more than 36,000 military shelter systems and more than 23,000 Alaska ECUs® (Environmental Control Units) in 85-plus countries. Alaska Defense offers the fastest and largest production capabilities in the industry. We proudly make our rapidly deployable military shelters in the U.S. and allow forces … to go further and faster into the field™.
Building Models
These are the most popular double-arch gable-style fabric buildings available for any large building requirement, like warehousing, storage buildings and aircraft hangars. Our large fabric buildings feature open-span interiors configurable to any size.
Heavy gable-style fabric buildings provide a robust and portable solution for any camp system requirement in areas with high winds and heavy snow loads. (15’, 16’, 18’, 20’, 22’, 24’, 26’, 30’ wide)
Straight-wall, gable-style fabric structures ensure maximum use of interior space. These are the ultimate modular buildings for workforce housing and remote camps. (8’, 10’, 12’, 14’, 16’, 18’, 20’ wide)
A straight-wall, gable-style fabric structure with a recessed end panel creates a private, covered porch. These are popular choices for luxury accommodations and adventure camps. (12’, 14’, 16’, 20’ wide)
These are modern and rapidly deployable shelter systems for big and small camps. These single-arch buildings are available in widths of 15’, 16’, 18’, 20’, 22’, 24’, 26’ and 30’ and to any length.
These revolutionary fabric shelters are designed for rapid setup and take down. A hinged-frame design allows these quick-erect shelters to be fully installed in less than 10 minutes. (12’, 14’, 16’, 20’ wide)
These lightweight, highly portable and extremely durable fabric shelters are ideally suited for use as emergency shelters or part of larger camp systems. These 12-foot wide shelter systems are available in multiple lengths.
