Fabric buildings can be beneficial to the mining industry in reducing their carbon footprint by providing a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to traditional mining structures. For example, fabric structures can be used as an alternative to permanent mining structures, such as storage facilities, workshops, or offices.
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If you’re contemplating investing in a coverall building or fabric structure, you’re likely wondering about the associated costs and the advantages over traditional construction. At FastCover, we’re leaders in fabric structure production, and we want to share some valuable insights into the true value of these sheds. Let’s delve deeper into what makes these buildings cost-effective and efficient.
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The mining industry is tough, but it also requires a great deal of innovation to keep up with the changing needs. With harsh weather conditions and hard-to-reach places, there are plenty of challenges for mine managers, from setting up office space in an abandoned shaft to getting heavy machinery down access holes before they’re frozen solid.
A more cost-effective way would be erecting structures such as portable fabric buildings, which can be easily broken down when not needed (saving money). Building a traditional structure can be another operation nightmare, and this is where fabric buildings come in. They offer several advantages over traditional structures regarding storage, warehousing or temporary office spaces for mining operations.
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Farmers have a lot of responsibilities. They need to ensure that their crops are healthy and that the animals they raise are well taken care of. One of the challenges that farmers face is finding the right shelter for their animals and crops. Traditional farm equipment storage buildings can be expensive and difficult to construct, especially if you are working with limited space. Fabric buildings offer an affordable and practical solution for farmers who need a quick and easy way to create shelter for their animals or crops.
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Your business is constantly evolving. Plans today can change tomorrow dependent on your customer’s needs or a potentially volatile marketplace. A structure on your property may be used as an industrial warehouse today and become a light manufacturing or materials staging facility tomorrow. A structure may be in the right location but can be prohibitive to growth tomorrow. These are only a couple of the challenges and changes our clients are faced with on a regular basis that have a significant impact on the positive growth of their businesses.
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FastCover Fabric Structures continues to be “Open for Business” during this pandemic. We are being very diligent with respect to the safety of our staff and clients. With Sales, Administrative and Certified Engineering Technologist staff working remotely, we continue to be fully capable of providing service to you on a regular basis. Our manufacturing facility is currently only producing building components for customer orders and our installation teams are adhering to the requests and requirements of our customers to ensure their and our safety during this time.
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When making your next building purchase, there are many financial considerations. There are many ways a fabric building from FastCover Buildings can help you save money as described below.
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Reducing maintenance and utility costs associated with your storage buildings is a smart way to improve the operational efficiency of your business operations. Making a smart purchase decision includes not only taking into account the upfront capital cost of the building but also the on-going operational costs of the building.
Setting aside the capital outlay for the building, there are a number savings that a FastCover fabric building will provide which may not be immediately obvious. The first is the time and expense saved to erect the building. Because the building is shipped in modular components, on-site construction time is drastically reduced where buildings can be completed sometimes in days as compared to weeks or months with buildings which must be completely constructed on-site. This also means your building is finished and ready for use in your business sooner.
Now consider the post-construction state of your building, as this is expected to last for many years. You will have recurring monthly expenses for utilities and maintenance on any style of building. A FastCover fabric building can help to reduce a number of monthly expenses due to the nature of the materials used to manufacture the building. The most obvious difference between a fabric building and steel or wood construction building is the use of a fabric cover. This fabric cover offers numerous advantages. The first is that it allows a tremendous amount of natural daylight to pass through the cover to the building’s interior, virtually eliminating the need for daytime artificial lighting. Even on cloudy days, there is often ample light to perform most activities inside the building without flicking on the light switch and having the power meter spinning. In early morning hours and nighttime when we no longer have the free benefit of the suns light, artificial lights can be used more efficiently as the bright white underside of the cover reflects and disperses light so that typically fewer light fixtures are needed.
Unlike a metal roofed building often used for storage buildings, a fabric building cover will not radiate the heat and cold of the extreme weather conditions we experience. Combine this with a cover that is effectively a one-piece sealed membrane and there will be substantially less air through cracks and perforations traditional buildings tend to have.
Some building styles require that the roofing and siding materials such as roof tar or shingles and exterior wall paint must be frequently maintained or replaced on a periodic basis. With a FastCover fabric building chosen for your storage building, there is no need to paint or shingle the roof and walls. The covers should be checked for tension periodically but are otherwise virtually self maintaining. Dirt and dust have a difficult time adhering to the polyethylene fabric and normally wind and rain are enough to blow off or wash off any that does manage to sit on the covers.
The building’s steel superstructure is post-weld powder-coat painted in our own paint booth. The extremely smooth finish helps to prevent cover wear and protects the steel framework from rust and corrosion.
One cost saving factor that few other storage buildings can match is the ability to take your investment with you if your business circumstance result in a move of locations. A FastCover building is designed with an exclusive continuous base rail frame system which affords it a tremendous range of options in regards to foundations. So flexible are these options that the foundation itself may be temporary and if the need arises, a FastCover storage building can be disassembled, building and foundation moved, and re-erected at the new site.
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In what instances does purchasing a fabric building make sense for you or your business? This is hard to say, but a fabric building from Fast Cover isn’t the best building for all building uses. Fabric buildings do not make good multi-floor office buildings. Fabric buildings do not make good houses or good apartment buildings. But when you are putting together your construction plan for these types of projects, consider how a fabric building as a Temporary Construction Warehouse can be an invaluable asset to your plan.
For a large-scale building project, you likely have a large-scale timeline, stretching into months, or more. During your construction project, you have many types of materials arriving on-site, some for immediate use, some for future stages. Similarly, you have many types of equipment on-site, some are needed continuously and some less frequently. With the climate we experience here, your materials and equipment may be exposed to UV rays from sunlight, wind, dust, rain, snow, and hail, maybe even all within the same week. With a temporary construction warehouse, you can have a secure on-site storage facility to protect your inventory and equipment from weather damage, theft, and accidental damage.
Fast Cover fabric buildings are built with their unique continuous base rail system. This feature results in incredible flexibility in both where and how buildings can be erected. The foundation options range from ground mounts, screw anchors, temporary concrete blocks, and more. In fact, the whole building, foundation, steel trusses, fabric cover, end walls, and doors can all be assembled, disassembled, and moved to the next project location. This also makes the location of the temporary construction warehouse an easier decision to make as you have more flexibility to locate it where it is most suits your needs.
One of your concerns may be the additional time needed to erect a warehouse only to have to remove it at the end of the project. But consider how having a temporary warehouse on site will give you the flexibility of scheduling material deliveries and eliminate delays due to any weather damaged materials. Now also consider that many Fast Cover buildings, which are shipped in modular components, can be erected with a week, often less, including placement of foundations such as concrete blocks.
A Fast Cover building as a Temporary Construction Warehouse will pay for itself many times over as you use it for future construction sites.