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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 up to 150 feet wide and to any length. 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 up to 150 feet wide and to any length. 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.
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? One way or another, Alaska Structures provides dining facilities of all sizes. Our fabric buildings are available up to 150 feet wide and configurable to any length. 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.
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.
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. They feature open-span interiors up to 150 feet wide and to any length. (16’ to 150’ wide)
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.
