Expeditionary Equipment: Semi-Permanent Soft Wall Structures

Posted on October 19, 2011
Filed in Industry News and Events

Semi-Permanent Soft Wall Structures

Survivability, Durability, & Efficiency

For the larger, more entrenched installations, with less focus on rapid mobility, semi-permanent fabric shelters offer survivability, durability, and energy-efficiency in the most demanding of environments. Semi-permanent shelters supply the living space, recreational space, kitchen and dinning area, storage, workshops, and warehouse capabilities needed to operate a successful remote military base camp while maintaining unsurpassed comfort and mobility.

Semi-permanent structures provide warfighters with a wide range of functionality, from small 20 ft. wide gable shelters all the way up to division-sized installations with over 10,000 square feet of floor space. By utilizing common structure features, warfighters customize their shelter into any size or configuration. Hallways and corridors provide main passageways between shelters or create private workspaces and secure communications centers. Semi-permanent shelter systems provide protection for personnel, equipment, and supplies in extreme climate and terrain. Semi-permanent structures meet these needs and store easily in space-efficient containers – 4 trained personnel can set up one shelter in as little as 30 minutes. From there, the same crew of 4 can quickly configure multiple semi-permanent shelters into multiple complexes. Warfighters complex each shelter end-to-end with a standard connector flap or side-to-side using optional side entries and vestibules. Semi-permanent structures provide a flexible, modular sheltering infrastructure that meets ever-evolving surge fluctuations. These semi-permanent shelters reconfigure easily, enabling warfighters to quickly expand their footprint from less than 1,000 to over 65,000 square feet. Semi-permanent structures also provide superior durability, easily withstanding pounding rain, hurricane-force winds and heavy snow loads. The superior climate control capabilities of semi-permanent structures provide warfighters with a functional, yet comfortable refuge from austere climate conditions while ensuring the consumption of precious power resources. During extreme weather testing, many semi-permanent shelter systems maintained 72°F in ambient temperatures of +125°F with only a 3-ton of air conditioning unit and +65°F in ambient temperature of -10°F with only 10KW of heat.

Alaska Structures 40' x 50' Vehicle Maintenance Shelter

Operational Focus: Vehicle Maintenance

Semi-permanent shelters are ideal for vehicle maintenance providing a safe working environment for vehicles, personnel, equipment and supplies. Commonly supplied with multiple door sizes, the vehicle maintenance shelter is well suited to accommodate vehicles of all sizes. The Exhaust System attaches to vehicles quickly, easily allowing maintenance and repairs to be performed without the need for additional ventilation, ensuring maximum heating and cooling efficiency with minimal power usage. Moreover to further enhance power efficiency, many vehicle maintenance shelters offer full insulation and electrical and heating/cooling (ECU) units as options.

Alaska Structures 7' x 8' Vestibule

Operational Focus: Medical

When it comes to medical applications, semi-permanent fabric structures deliver a substantial degree of operational flexibility, allowing medical personnel to create a clean – even sterile – shelter that protects sick or wounded warfighters from harsh environmental elements and further risk of infection. From everyday medical care to life-threatening battlefield traumas, semi-permanent shelters offer infinite complexing capabilities. As a result, warfighters can quickly configure or reconfigure their medical shelter to support any needs including combat triage, surgery, recovery and even decontamination.