Addressing burning storage issues
December 1st 2007

Temporary buildings can be delivered and erected quickly with minimal site preparation giving a quick fix or longerterm solution, says Aganto.

Structures are commonly erected on a multitude of surfaces and lend themselves to undulating surfaces and sites with gradients. In certain disaster situations an average size building can be erected and fully functional within days.

The overall flexibility of the temporary structure is further enhanced by the option of relocating the building. If a customer has a two to three year lease on a site, it may be more prudent to purchase rather than hire.

When the customer moves site the structure can be dismantled and re-erected in a different location.

Buildings can be modular or bespoke and are used for a large number of applications. Traditionally they have been used for warehousing, but the versatility of the storage structure lends itself to a wide range of uses from classrooms to garden centres, gymnasiums to workshops, curing areas to fire stations, cafeterias to aircraft hangers. Poole Fire Station, is one such example.

The station needed modernising and the most cost effective way to do this was to knock down the existing building and build a new station. Aganto supplied an insulated structure 20m wide x 15m long. The building needed to conform and comply with the expectations of a fully functioning 24 hour fire station, so additional feature were included within the structure to enable this, including specialist rapid rise doors as featured in most UK fire stations. A special sub frame was designed and installed to enable door operation and a traffic light system was also fitted to work in conjunction with the doors.

By hiring the structure Dorset Fire and Rescue Service were able to solve a very unique problem, as temporary fire stations are not readily available.

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