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> RUBB HOLDS HELICOPTER HANGAR TRAINING DAY FOR RAF (15/07/2010)
Royal Air Force personnel flew into action for a training session on a new aircraft hangar door at Rubb Buildings’ Gateshead factory. A team of eight men from 5001 Squadron visited Rubb to learn all about new door technology for the ‘invaluable’ Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System range.
> TWELVE AIRCRAFT HANGARS DESTINED FOR AFGHAN DEPLOYMENT (15/06/2010)
RUBB is in a class of its own after winning a large contract which will see 12 military buildings deployed to Afghanistan throughout 2010.
The company’s design team have taken the EFASS range of hangars to the next dimension with four of the structures featuring newly developed wider Heli-door technology.
Meanwhile six of the Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System buildings will be the longest ever produced at 100m in length. The six 25m span x 100m facilities will be used as storage complexes and will be completed with 5m x 5m manual Roller Shutter Doors at each end.
> NEW CRANE TECHNOLOGY GIVES HELICOPTER SHELTERS A LIFT (15/06/2010)
CUTTING edge door and crane technology has raised Rubb’s game in the military sector. Rubb Buildings Ltd has been at the forefront of supplying vital hangars to the frontline in conflict torn Afghanistan.
The newly developed 25m span EFASS, complete with an 18.5m wide x 6.5m high aircraft door is currently being used by many different forces from around the world.
> TRIDENT DOOR AIRCRAFT HANGARS IN WHIRLWIND DEPLOYMENT (15/06/2010)
NINE Rubb EFASS aircraft hangars were rapidly deployed and assembled at Kandahar Airfield in just 21 days by 5001 Squadron through ‘resilience, team work and utter focus on the job’.
The hangars, featuring state-of-the-art Trident door technology, provide much-needed sheltered working environments for vital frontline aircraft.
“Everything you need packs into a 20ft ISO container, can be airlifted to theatre and is rapidly erectable.
> RUBB UNLOCKS SOLUTION TO HANGAR DOOR DILEMMA (15/06/2010)
The experts at Rubb Buildings Ltd held the key to designing a new door for a hangar at RAF Waddington.
The 20m x 33m NV type building was originally manufactured with a Fast Jet Door to house aircraft. This style of door required three men on the ground and the pilot to move the aircraft in and out of the hangar.
Then Rubb came up with a plan to reduce the ground staff to just one man. This involved designing and equipping the facility with a bespoke 17.5m x 6m sliding door.
> RUBB DELIVERS STORAGE SOLUTION TO RMB CHIVENOR (15/06/2010)
Rubb Building Systems have delivered a new storage solution to Royal Marines Base Chivenor.
Rubb Buildings Ltd was tasked with providing a military hardware storage and maintenance facility, under dehumidified conditions.This is the second Rubb building to be erected at the base near Barnstaple, Devon.
The new Rubb building is a 49.2m span (BVR Link) 160m long structure, giving an overall footprint of 7904m².
> STORAGE DRIVE FOR DST LECONFIELD (15/06/2010)
RUBB geared up to deliver a military quad bike storage facility to DST Leconfield.
Installation of the 20m x 20m NV building was completed at the site in June.
The NV features 5m x 5m roller shutter doors at each gable end and will be used to store quad bikes. Rubb Buildings Ltd worked with the main contractor Carillion to bring the facility to the Defence School of Transport at Normandy Barracks, near Beverley.
