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Rubb Building Systems

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Dukesway,
Team Valley Trading Estate,
Gateshead,
Tyne and Wear,
NE11 0QE,
United Kingdom

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Storage Warehouse Structures

Storage Warehouse Structures

Flexible modular storage solutions

Rubb storage steel framed modular warehouses can be easily converted, adapted or relocated to store additional products, providing a more flexible storage solution. Rubb storage buildings are easily custom designed to accommodate conveyors and other loading methods. Retaining sidewalls can also be integrated to resist lateral loadings.

Our large clear spans and high translucent ceilings provide a bright, efficient working environment. Rubb storage warehouses are built to last but are fully relocatable or extendable to meet changing needs.

Our storage buildings have been used to contain everything from biomass to perlite, and often serve as salt sheds for local authorities.
Aviation Aircraft Hangars

Aviation Aircraft Hangars

Aircraft Hangars

Rubb is a leading manufacturer of temporary and permanent fabric aircraft hangars, air cargo facilities, aircraft maintenance buildings, storage warehouses and aviation hangars. Many airports, airlines and aviation organisations are reaping the topflight benefits of Rubb specialist and custom designed aircraft hangars. Rubb Aviation has a proven track record in delivering fast, flexible and cost effective aircraft hangars to aviation and military organisations to protect their planes and helicopters.
Military Buildings

Military Buildings

Military Buildings

Rubb's military building range features relocatable rapid erect military structures for aircraft and helicopters, military storage warehouses, aviation shelters and sunshades.

Rubb military buildings are designed to be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world

Rubb provides durable and field maintainable engineered fabric military buildings to support defence requirements in difficult environmental conditions, the most challenging climates and demanding terrain. Rubb's military aircraft hangars, rapid deployment military shelters, military warehouses, aviation sunshades, UAV shelters and defence workshops are fully demountable for future missions.
Sport Structures

Sport Structures

Sport Structures

The design and planning flexibility, speed of construction and durable, cost effective operation of Rubb sports structures provide worldwide sporting sectors, clubs, schools and other organisations with a competitive edge. Rubb can deliver sports hubs, multi-use sports halls, football facilities, netball domes and more, worldwide.

Funding and constructing private or public training facilities can be a daunting task, but the experts at Rubb know how to meet the challenge. Find out how we can support your project and contact Rubb today.
Ports & Harbour Warehouses

Ports & Harbour Warehouses

Port & Harbour Warehouses

Rubb port warehouses offer bulk storage solutions, custom designed to meet a variety of bulk handling methods. Relocating and extending is easy and cost effective.

Port structures can be custom designed to meet a variety of bulk handling methods. Relocating and extending these modular fabric buildings is easy and cost effective in a busy ever changing port environment.

Rubb harbour structures provide large, clearspan internal spaces that are illuminated by natural light through Rubb’s translucent roofing systems. This allows a brighter, safer, more efficient working environment than conventional port structures.

Rubb port buildings are ideal for warehousing a variety of goods including sensitive materials. Rubb climate-controlled harbour storage buildings facilitate dehumidification systems and bulk storage structures protect your valuable materials from strenuous marine environment conditions.
Salt & Sand Storage Barns

Salt & Sand Storage Barns

Salt Storage Barns

Rubb is recognised as a worldwide leader in innovative, practical and cost-effective salt storage building solutions.

Rubb’s salt storage buildings offer a superior alternative to wooden and metal bulk storage facilities. Our salt and sand storage barns can be designed to accommodate conveyors and other processing methods.

Rubb salt barns and sand storage buildings are engineered to very high standards to suit your location and local building codes. The quality materials and trusted construction methods provide a structure with an expected life of more than 30 years.

The hot dip galvanized steel frame and high tenacity PVC covering membrane require very little maintenance. Rubb salt storage sheds are specifically designed to withstand difficult environmental and corrosive conditions and have much lower maintenance costs than traditional storage facilities.
Energy Storage Facilities

Energy Storage Facilities

Energy

With more than 40 years' experience designing, manufacturing and constructing bespoke buildings, Rubb can support the energy sector with facilities for storage, processing and maintenance.

Rubb UK is a trusted supplier of building solutions for the energy sector, providing bespoke storage facilities for offshore industries, subsea engineering, oil and gas operations, mining, nuclear decommissioning and remediation and other structures to support many energy organisations. Rubb also supplies accommodation facilities and storage building solutions for oil rig platforms and vessels. More recently Rubb has been providing facilities to the renewable energy, alternative fuels and biomass power marketplace.

Our technical team offers expertise and experience in the design, engineering and construction of all types of fabric buildings for the energy industry and temporary buildings at power stations. The unique flexibility and durability of Rubb fabric energy structures helps enhance working environments, protect operations from the elements and provide alternative warehousing and fabrication options during outage to minimise downtime. Energy support facilities can be rapidly constructed, dismantled, stored and relocated as required.
Waste & Recycling Buildings

Waste & Recycling Buildings

Waste Management Recycling Facilities

In an increasingly eco-conscious world, Rubb's waste management buildings and recycling facilities have the flexibility to help meet all your environmental targets.

For a sector driven by targets, Rubb delivers structures that allow waste material to be un-loaded, stored and processed in a dry, wind free environment.

Rubb can provide custom designed waste management facilities, waste recycling facilities and waste transfer stations to accommodate your specific storage, handling and processing needs.

Our translucent roof fabric provides a light and energy efficient interior for a safer working environment. Rubb offers a full turnkey building service and can provide everything including the fabric structure, foundations, floors, lighting, HVAC, plumbing and electrics - the complete package.
Environmental Tank Covers

Environmental Tank Covers

Environmental Tank Covers

Rubb can also offer environmental protection structures to prevent airborne dust and odour 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. They can be effectively sealed to provide a negative-pressure environment.
Marine Structures

Marine Structures

Marine Structures

Rubb ship and offshore manufacturing buildings protect fabrication work worldwide. Rubb also provides covered and dehumidified storage on ships and barges.

Rubb marine manufacturing structures can be track mounted and liftable to allow movement of the structure depending on project needs. This allows work to continue whatever the weather.

As well as making ship and offshore manufacturing shelters on land, Rubb also makes custom cover structures for vessels at sea. Dehumidified onboard ship cargo storage structures provide protection and safe transport for sensitive goods.

Rubb marine covers provide affordable shipyard storage and maintenance solutions. Rubb also offers climate-controlled and bulk storage warehouses for ports.
Industrial Buildings

Industrial Buildings

Industrial Buildings

Rubb’s industrial facilities offer flexible, effective, clear span storage space, and cost effective protective building solutions for manufacturing and production processes, including industrial blasting and painting.

Cover for manufacturing, blasting and painting
Rubb’s industrial fabric buildings offer the versatility and adaptability that every market sector needs. Many clients use our industrial buildings in different locations and for different applications. The flexibility to relocate, resell or extend are appealing features of every Rubb structure.

Rubb’s manufacturing, storage and blasting facilities are being used to increase production capacity, maximizing return on investment. Rubb has the capability to adapt and customize structures to fit your needs, even in environments where options may seem limited.
Film Industry Soundstage Studios

Film Industry Soundstage Studios

Film Industry Production

Rubb can provide permanent, temporary or relocatable membrane-covered film industry production facilities with flexible design options.

Cost effective, custom, and flexible film industry production solutions
Rubb's membrane tensioned structures can provide a broad range of temporary and permanent solutions for production, sound stage, set storage, and fully powered workshop facilities.

Designed with building regulations and cost-effectiveness in mind, our buildings can also be further enhanced many customisable features. Cladding options, door systems, groundworks, HVAC packages, soundproofing, LED lighting, electrical power outlets, mechanical extraction systems, and extensive rigging capacity are all available.

Rubb structures are designed to clients' typical load requirements for the suspension of equipment. Typical designs meet requirements to a 1.5 kN uniform load, with point loads of up to 37 kN.

Rubb structures can be provided with a highly efficient Thermohall® insulated cladding, our market-leading insulation system which has been proven highly effective in extreme environments; both hot and cold.
Emergency Relief Shelters

Emergency Relief Shelters

Emergency Relief Shelters

Rubb emergency shelters and disaster relief buildings can be easily transported and rapidly erected for worldwide emergency situations.

These disaster shelters can be constructed using local labour with basic tools and minimal lifting gear. Foundation requirements are simple allowing installation on a wide range of surfaces.

Rubb portable emergency tents can be erected in just a few hours. They can also be dismantled, stored and re-deployed to meet later emergency requirements at other locations. Rubb's larger softskin prefabricated structures can be used for emergency accommodation, storage of goods and equipment and protection of aircraft and land transport vehicles against extreme weather conditions.

Rubb emergency shelters can be packed into shipping containers and are fully air transportable for field missions worldwide.
Fire Stations

Fire Stations

Fire Stations

Rubb can provide permanent, temporary or relocatable membrane-covered fire stations with flexible design options engineered to perform as well as traditional construction.

Cost effective, customised, and flexible fire station solutions
Rubb’s membrane tensioned fire stations offer municipalities a variety of apparatus bay design options. Rubb structures are configured to meet the needs of an active firehouse including wash bays, an open truss design which can support hanging mechanical equipment, energy efficient lighting, and climate control systems. Rubb is also able to design the structure to accommodate most high-speed door systems and exhaust devices.

Rubb firehouses can be provided with highly efficient Thermohall® insulated cladding, our market-leading insulation system which has been proven highly effective in extreme environments; both hot and cold.
Custom Buildings

Custom Buildings

Custom Fabric Buildings

Working closely with architects to produce imaginative custom designed fabric building solutions.

Bespoke and unique fabric architecture
Rubb's experienced engineers have the skills and expertise to provide architectural, custom designed fabric building solutions to overcome specific site or project challenges.

Over the years Rubb has built close working relationships with architects and practices to deliver innovative, cost effective, bespoke tensile structure solutions which can be quickly designed, manufactured and erected in a wide variety of sizes, colours and shapes.

Rubb's engineered custom, 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's bespoke fabric structures provide outstanding service for an increasingly wide range of applications.

At Rubb, ISO 9000 Quality Assurance procedures are the foundation for all operations, from initial briefing through to final commissioning.

About us

Rubb Buildings Ltd is a leading UK specialist of custom fabric buildings, designing and manufacturing a wide range of re-locatable and permanent engineered fabric structures for a wide range of industries.

With quality in mind, our tensile structures are manufactured in our plant facility in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear meeting and exceeding the ISO 9001 registered standards, we even provide a quality benchmark for every element of the production process. From start to finish, Rubb Buildings work alongside you, developing tensile buildings that meets your requirements and are a cost effective investment.

Designed to be strong, durable, flexible, re-locatable and easy to maintain, Rubb Building Systems range of fabric structures are used for military hangars, sunshades, shelters, warehouses, custom designed specialist sports buildings and storage buildings for aviation, ports, emergency relief, energy, construction, bulk storage and environmental including waste and recycling industries.

The Rubb Buildings Company was established in 1977 and is proud of their history of delivering innovative and the very best quality fabric structures for a wide range of clients. Our service engineers and technicians are experts in the production of steel and aluminium framed, pvc fabric clad tensile structures with more than forty years of experience.

The Benefits of a Temporary or Permanent Tensile Structure:
  • A more affordable alternative to traditional steel panelled buildings
  • Clear span buildings offer the maximum usable floor space
  • Efficient and quick construction
  • Fabric buildings provide greater flexibility for expansion and design

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