Olympic retractable tunnel helps Stafford boat owners repair their craft

A retractable tunnel used to welcome athletes competing at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games is now in Stafford being used as a shelter for canal boat owners repairing their craft.

We recently supplied the 7m-long refurbished retractable tunnel, which was situated at the entrance to the Olympic Basketball Arena, to Stafford Boat Club to enable its members to carry out vital maintenance on their boats without having to endure the wind and rain.

Stafford Boat Club is situated on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in Wildwood and has 180 members. Formed in 1964, it has steadily built up a wide range of facilities, including a club house built entirely by its members, but did not have anywhere that was dry and warm where they could work on their boats during the winter – until now.

John Mountfort, commodore of Stafford Boat Club, said: “Every so often members need to take their boats out of the water to paint the hulls or mend the propellers, but we didn’t have anywhere under cover where they could do their work.

“Then one of our members suggested using a retractable tunnel as a temporary shelter, which he had seen elsewhere. We decided that would be perfect, because it could be pulled over the boats while they were being worked on and taken away afterwards.

“It was just great timing that Spaciotempo had only just got its retractable tunnels back from the Olympics when we enquired. Not only does the tunnel suit our purposes perfectly, the fact that it was used at the Basketball Arena over the summer has become a real talking point.”

The tunnel is made from PVC stretched over an aluminium frame and runs on rubber tyres. When it is not in use, it compresses to a depth of just 1m, which makes it easy to store away.

As part of a full refurbishment carried out before it was pressed into action at the boat club, the tunnel was widened by another metre to accommodate the width of the boats, with enough room for the owners to work alongside.

Scott Jameson, director of sales for Spaciotempo, said: “As part of the agreement to supply the tunnels to the Olympic Games, we agreed a buy back scheme which enabled them to meet LOCOG’s sustainability targets.

“We are really pleased that this retractable tunnel is now providing much-needed shelter for Stafford Boat Club.

“There is no doubt that the whole country benefited from a feel good factor during the Olympic and Paralympic Games and we hope that this tunnel will, in its own way, act as a souvenir of an unforgettable summer.”


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Flexible Spaciotempo Building Earns Contract Extension at Fujitsu

Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe has extended the hire of a Spaciotempo temporary building after it proved to excel in more than just the intended application.

The company originally specified the 10 x 20 x 5.2 metre, aluminium framed building on a three month rental contract at its headquarters in the West Midlands, which acts as the centre for all aspects of the European business operation. The structure was chosen to provide a secure storage and workshop facility for the refurbishment of one of its customer’s high-specification telecommunications HGVs – which effectively serves as an emergency mobile telephone exchange.

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New Tunnel Provides Revenue and Protection at Notts County FC

Coinciding with its 100th anniversary of playing at Meadow Lane, Notts County Football Club has purchased a new players’ tunnel from leading supplier Spaciotempo.

Sponsored by renowned Nottingham-based bar and restaurant group, Hooters, the bespoke tunnel clearly stands out with their trademark orange colour and distinctive logo. Situated level with the half way line and adjoining the Derek Pavis Stand it helps create a major focal point for supporters as the players enter the playing arena.

Standing 2.28m tall, 1.80m wide and 4.0m in length, the tunnel retracts back to the stadium wall to create extra space when not in use. It is manufactured from tough, flame retardant PVC on an aluminium frame and runs out smoothly on rubber tyres.

Charlotte Moore, Head of Commercial at Notts County Football Club said: “We and the sponsors are delighted with the cost, quality and visual impact of the finished product. As it provides strong branding opportunities it creates a valuable new revenue stream for the club while a further crucial feature is the protection afforded to players and officials as they are waiting to walk out on to the pitch.”

The Spaciotempo retractable tunnel concept is proving to be exceptionally popular with football clubs across all tiers of English football - from Stoke City in the Premier League, Middlesbrough and Preston North End in the Championship and Chesterfield in League One. A whole host of other clubs have either ordered new tunnels or new covers for existing tunnels as sponsors change or damage is repaired. Available in a variety of sizes, the tunnels are used for a range of applications including covered walkways to the hospitality facilities, on-site storage facilities and even to protect fans from inclement weather at the ticket offices.

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Spaciotempo Provides Car Showroom for Peugeot

Customers visiting one of the UK’s leading
dealerships have complemented staff on its
interim car showroom.

Staff at Peugeot dealers Robins & Day say that
a stream of visitors have remarked on the
quality and appearance of the temporary
building, which was installed at the
dealership’s flagship site in Coventry.
Robins & Day, which operates 36 sites across
the country and has a turnover of £500m, has
taken up residence in the building while its
new multi-million pound dealership takes
shape at the city’s iconic Kenpas Highway site.


It is one of a number of Robins & Day sites
currently using our buildings, which have
also been installed during renovation work
at its dealerships in Stockport and Preston.
Each one is supplied from our off-the-shelf
TempAstor range and offers either 150 sq
m or 200 sq m of floorspace - roughly the
size of a tennis court.
All of them are 4.2m high at the eaves,
giving the showrooms a light, airy feel, and
have been provided with doors and large
windows, office partitioning, full electrical
and heating packages and temporary
toilets and canteen areas.
They also carry extensive corporate
branding and have thermo roofs, which are
made from translucent fabric and allow in a
large amount of natural daylight, which
reduces running costs and energy
consumption.

The Coventry site also has another 100 sqm
TempAstor building, which it is using as a garage show room.

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It's safety first as Crewe Alexandra FC extends its players' tunnel

Football League One side Crewe Alexandra FC has underlined its commitment to ensuring match-days stay safe by increasing the length of the players' tunnel.

The club has added a four metre retractable extension to an existing tunnel at the Alexandra Stadium, creating a covered walkway for players and officials stretching from the stand to the pitch-side.

The extension has been provided by us, and we also supplied the original tunnel some years ago. 

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Bradford College Boxing Gym

Boasting three boxing rings, a full range of
hitting equipment, mirrors and weights the
hall has proved popular with young boxers.
The Academy has become one of a handful
designated High Performance Boxing
Centres across the UK It will also act as a
pre-Games training base for a number of
Olympic boxing teams.

It is, in short, a significant addition to
Yorkshire’s sporting scene and a proud
example of the London 2012 legacy, yet it
quite easily might never have ever got off
the ground.

Just a year ago, the Academy was dividing
its time between four venues operated by
other organisations. It had a long waiting
list, limited funding and, with the Olympics
fast approaching, little chance to take part.

Constructed using an anodised aluminium
frame in-filled with steel-clad sandwich
panels, the hall was manufactured and
supplied by us and, although it could
theoretically be removed as easily as it has
been erected, it is designed to last for many
years. It is manufactured to comply with
British and EEC safety standards for
structural integrity, fire and safety codes, as
well as British Standards for wind and snow
loading.

We laid the concrete base, installed a
semi-translucent roof, which allows in
daylight to save lighting costs, and fitted a
host of other amenities, including a
temperature control system. The whole cost
of the project was £300,000 which,
according to figures from Sport England,
shows a significant saving. The average cost
of a similar-sized sports hall, based on
typical schemes funded last year, would be
around the £1m mark – more than three
times as expensive.

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Spaciotempo UK's know-how conquers an uphill task at Chesterfield

We have just finished one the most complicated jobs the company has ever attempted; building a temporary market hall on behalf of Chesterfield Town Council, which wanted somewhere to house 14 traders while the town's existing hall undergoes a £3.6m facelift. 

The hall has been built on an open space called New Square but, thanks to the Square's cobbled surface, historic plane trees and sloping surface, the installation process was far from straightforward.

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Berthon Boat Company Opts for Spaciotempo Tunnel

Family business, Berthon Boats, based in the Georgian town of Lymington, has been trading since 1877 and occupies a prime riverside site offering easy access to the Solent.

As well as their marina, which has 280 deep water berths, the company offers a brokerage service for yacht buyers as well as an extensive servicing and refit operation.

The company boasts a large, fully equipped workshop facility as well as a separate paint shop to carry out refurbishment and renovations – from simple deck replacements to installing a full electronic suite, complete rebuilds and a wide range of restoration services. 

The company has recently sourced a Ready Box retractable tunnel from Spaciotempo which they are using to cover the boats that are being restored, protecting them from dust particles in the air.

The tunnel is 3.5 m in width, 10m in length and 3.55 m in overall height and using a concertina system it can be retracted back to approximately 128 cm, which frees up additional space in the workshop. It is also highly portable and can be relocated to whichever part of the workshop, marina or yard it is required. As well as supplying protection for the boats the tunnel can double up as a handy storage space for goods that need to be protected.

Iain Woolgar, Project Manager of the company, is so far highly delighted with the new addition:
“The retractable tunnel from Spaciotempo provides us with just the right space to work on renovations. It is very easy to use and has a small footprint when not in use. It provides the perfect protection for the yachts and boats in for repair and re-fit.” 

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Stockport's sports fans carry on having fun thanks to Spaciotempo's temporary hall

Young athletes whose sports hall has been bulldozed to make way for new homes are still able to enjoy their favourite activities after Spaciotempo UK supplied an interim sports facility until a permanent replacement is built.

Earlier this year the popular Dialstone Centre in Stockport, Cheshire, was closed to make way for a new residential development, with a new sports centre set to be built as part of a new community hub complex planned for a neighbouring site and due to be opened in 2014.

The time lapse between one centre closing and its replacement being built meant that the Dialstone Centre's owners, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, had to find an alternative to ensure that users did not have to travel elsewhere or had to give up their favourite activities.

The answer lay with a 700sqm semi-permanent sports hall, which Spaciotempo erected just half a kilometre away on the premises of Offerton High School, which closed down this summer. 

Sited next to an adjoining building offering changing facilities and a gym, the hall is large enough to house four badminton courts but is used for a range of activities including five-a-side football, gymnastics, Zumba and children's holiday camps.

Constructed using an anodised aluminium frame in-filled with steel-clad sandwich panels, it is 8.6m tall at the ridge, has a semi-translucent thermo-inflated roof, heating and an adjoining 100sqm storage area. 

The Dialstone Centre is run by Life Leisure, which is the trading name of Stockport Sports Trust, a not-for-profit organisation which operates sports facilities on behalf of the council.

Michelle Child, manager of the Dialstone Centre, said that the hall is now well-used by local residents from toddlers all the way up to people in their 80s.

She said: "With the closure of the previous centre, we needed a sports hall that was temporary and not too expensive and that is exactly what we've got.

"It is very similar to the dimensions of the last sports hall and we have seen a lot of customers from the previous centre come along and continue their sport instead of having to go elsewhere."

Scott Jameson, director of sales at Spaciotempo, said: "The Olympics have given sport in this country a huge shot in the arm and we are very pleased that our building means that the community in Offerton isn't missing out on taking part.

"This is a great example of how temporary buildings not only provide an affordable stop-gap, but offer a sturdy and good-sized accommodation that will more than meet their needs while their new premises are taking shape."

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Spaciotempo's temporary warehouse is a hit with storage experts Cam Store

A storage company that looks after millions of pounds worth of stock on behalf of other businesses has expanded its operation by investing in a 525sqm Temporary warehouse. Cam Store took delivery of a top-of-the-range facility from temporary building manufacturers, suppliers and installers Spaciotempo UK, during the summer in order to accommodate a new storage contract.

The company employs 20 people at its base in Royston, Hertfordshire, where it has around 10,700sqm of secure storage space on a four-and-a-half acre site.

Offering commercial warehousing and personal and business self-storage, Cam Store's facility is routinely used by firms as off-site storage for thousands of items, including machinery, electrical items and other products.
Earlier this year, in order to win a new contract, it needed to provide warehouse space that was watertight and free from condensation, a stringent requirement which could have forced Cam Store to invest in a new purpose-built facility.

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Spaciotempo UK Helps Printers FastAnt Press on with Expansion Plans

With a new industrial printing press installed and taking up much-needed room in its existing on-site warehouse, FastAnt, the marketing materials design and printing arm of Leicester printers Taylor Bloxham, was in sudden need of extra storage space earlier this year. We helped them out. View our latest press release for more details - http://www.free-press-release.com/news-spaciotempo-uk-helps-printers-fastant-press-on-with-expansion-plans-1348610165.html

Burton brewers Marston’s raises a glass to Spaciotempo

With sales for its own-label ale on the up, at the end of last year brewers Marston’s found that it was running out of storage space at its brewery in the UK’s beer capital, Burton-on-Trent.

This was despite Marston’s, which keeps drinkers refreshed with favourites such as Marston’s Pedigree, Old Empire IPA and Burton Bitter, having already invested in a temporary building from Spaciotempo two years earlier.

The acquisition of the first building, which measured 396sqm and six metres high, gave the brewery storage space for 2,000 pallets – which equated to around two million pints of beer. 

As 2011 drew to a close, and with demand increasing, the company opted for an extension measuring 686sqm. This increased its storage capacity by a further 3,000 pallets – containing a thirst-quenching three million pints of beer.

Yet this was only part of the story, because since the conditions its beer is stored at is vital, Marston’s needed a warehouse that would hold a steady temperature, no matter what the weather was doing outside.

To accommodate this, Spaciotempo supplied a building from its Neivalu range, complete with single-sheet steel cladding and a thermo roof, a PVC polyester envelope inflated with a low-pressure automatic pump to create a pocket of air, which acts as a layer of insulation.

“Sales of our beers were doing extremely well and we had just got a new distribution contract, so in the run-up to Christmas we realised that we needed extra storage space to cope with all that extra volume,” explained Emma Gilleland, head brewer at Marston’s.

“We already had a building from Spaciotempo and it was working perfectly, so we went straight back to them.

“Temporary buildings are a quick and low cost way of extending our capacity and the extension is brilliant. It performs as well as a permanent building but, most importantly for us, whether it’s hot or cold outside, it keeps the ambient temperature just as we need it.”

Scott Jameson, director of sales at Spaciotempo, said: “Marston’s is a huge name in the brewing and pub industry, so naturally we are delighted to have supplied another building to such a well-known and well-regarded brand.

“While the dimensions of the extension are impressive, the thermo roof is proving to be the real success story of the contract.

“It is yet another demonstration of how modern temporary buildings perform as well as permanent structures and even can be trusted to keep literally millions of pints of the nation’s favourite beers in optimum condition.”

A cool storage solution for soft fruit supplier

DCS Cold Storage Business is booming at chilled fruit provider DCS Cold Storage, which has significantly increased its trade since moving its operations inside two bespoke temporary buildings supplied by Spaciotempo. The company, based in Ashford, Kent, sells fruits such as grapes, pineapples and bananas to a host of leading supermarkets and earlier this year hired two of our Neivalu buildings to support its growth plans.

  

Not only do the five metre-tall buildings feature portal beams to create an unobstructed L-shaped space measuring 1,200sqm, they are constructed using insulated UPVC sandwich wall panels and a thermo-inflated roof to support a chilled environment.

In fact this is so successful that the company is able to satisfy customers’ stringent demands for keeping different fruit at different temperatures at various locations within the building - and all at a fraction of the cost of erecting a purpose-built facility from scratch. 

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Temporary storage building helps Yusen Logistics’ cross docking facility

With around 250,000 sq m of warehousing around the country – enough to cover around 35 football pitches – Yusen Logistics (UK) has a lot of storage space at its disposal.

Yet in its drive to build flexibility into its operations, it has added to its vast warehouse capacity with a 10m by 15m temporary building from our Neivalu range.

The building, which has been installed at the company’s Northampton depot, will increase Yusen Logistics’ cross docking facility, so that it can prepare incoming goods for prompt shipment elsewhere without receiving them into stock in the main warehouses themselves.



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If you really want or need a temporary building structure for your premises, but you are worrying about planning permission for temporary buildings then we can help you. At Spaciotempo, we assume all responsibility for the complex and time consuming process of gaining the right planning approval for your building. Planning usually takes a minimum length of four weeks but it can sometimes take longer, depending on the meeting dates set for the planning. You can find out lots more by visiting us online at http://www.spaciotempo.co.uk.

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