Loading Bay Canopies

At Spaciotempo we have a range temporary building structures available and one of our popular products is the Spaciotempo Neivalu. This is available to buy or hire and it is perfect for use as a loading bay canopy. This loading bay canopy can be built to exact dimensions that are required for your site and it is completely re-locatable. If you would like more details on our loading bay canopies or any of our other products, please contact us on 01889 569 569 or visit us online.

Planning Permission for a Temporary Building Structure

As you will probably know it is extremely important that you get the correct planning permission before you go ahead with the installation of a temporary building structure. Here at Spaciotempo, we can help with this. We will assume all responsibility for the complex and time consuming process of gaining the right planning permission for your temporary building structure. Whether it be a temporary warehouse, loading bay canopy or something else. Visit us online to find out more.

Promat UK Ltd meets hot demand with a second temporary building

A manufacturer of passive fire protection coatings has doubled the storage capacity of its site by investing in its second temporary building from Spaciotempo.

Promat UK, based in Lindrick, near Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has avoided the expense of relocating or storing its products off-site by using a 300sqm temporary building from our Neivalu range as a temporary warehouse.

Promat’s products are sprayed onto the walls of tunnels, petrochemical plants and other industrial buildings to protect the infrastructure of the facility. They have been working at full capacity over the past two years to meet growing demand.

However, the extra production has meant it has run out of room to store its products, which two years ago led the company’s factory manager, Matt Green, to ask us to help.

Within a couple of months – with planning permission secured thanks to our town planning specialist partners - we had erected a 300sqm temporary building on Promat’s site.

Then, at the end of last year, with demand continuing to soar, Promat ordered another building – which we erected within a matter of weeks.

Standing on a concrete base, it has one set of roller doors and a single personnel door. It has a thermo insulated roof – consisting of an inflated PVC envelope – and 40mm steel sandwich wall panels.

Both temporary buildings, which are on long-term hire, are currently full, each containing 350 pallets of bagged products awaiting delivery.

Matt said: “Because we own the premises, have a settled and flexible workforce and excellent transport links, we want to stay where we are, which is why the temporary buildings have been so useful.

“They are full to capacity now, but there is no way we could have met the demand without the extra storage space they gave us.”

Scott Jameson, director of sales at Spaciotempo, said: “Success for any company is always good news, but often it cause problems with warehousing if they are producing more goods than they can store.

“However, the fact that Promat had spare land on their site was a saving grace. It meant that we could erect two temporary buildings which have been crucial to ensuring that they can deal with the extra demand.”

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Loading Bay Canopies

At Spaciotempo we are temporary building experts and we supply a range of products ranging from temporary storage buildings to loading bay canopies and more. All of the loading bay canopies that we provide are designed to comply with the most stringent safety and security regulations and they will provide strength and stability in all weather conditions. Our products are available to buy or hire and you can find out more by visiting us online.

The Advantages of Temporary Building Structures

Temporary building structures have many advantages when compared with normal buildings. One of the main advantages of them are that they cost a lot less than a permanent building and they can also be set up and installed in a much shorter space of time. Here at Spaciotempo we can provide a range of temporary building structures that include loading bay canopies, temporary warehouses and more. We are also able to help you get planning permission for a temporary building structure if required. Visit us online for more information.

Spaciotempo’s temporary space helps Nissan’s LEAF to roll off the production line

Nissan has overcome a lack of space at its Sunderland plant by investing in a temporary building, which has allowed it to accommodate the production of its brand new electric LEAF.

The 1,966sqm building, supplied by Spaciotempo UK Ltd, is being used to store finished axles for the company’s Juke and Qashqai models, as well as the LEAF, which started rolling off the production lines at the end of March.

Last year the Sunderland factory, which is one of British manufacturing’s success stories, built more than 510,000 vehicles – a UK car industry record. Its success is the result of heavy investment in new production facilities which now means that space at the 750 acre plant, opened in 1986, is at a premium – which caused a problem when it came to accommodating the LEAF.

Darrell Stansfield, senior engineer at Nissan Sunderland plant, said: “Five years ago we extended the axle plant to accommodate Qashqai production but in order to increase production further we needed to find further space to install two new welding lines.

“We decided we would use the space currently used to store the axles, which meant we needed to find somewhere else to keep them in turn. We considered two options: an extension to the existing plant or storing the parts off-site, neither of which proved suitable.”

Darrell was aware that some of Nissan’s contractors used temporary buildings at Sunderland and contacted Spaciotempo to find out more.

He said: “I knew that it wouldn’t take long to erect and could prove to be a cost-effective option.”

In both cases, Darryl was proved right and within weeks the aluminium-framed temporary building, which was installed on a specially made concrete base, was in place.

To ensure that it fitted in with Nissan’s development policy of dividing the plant’s floor-space into 18m span bays, the temporary building’s 1,944sqm framework was created in bespoke six metre sections, rather than Spaciotempo’s standard five metres.

Scott Jameson, director of sales at Spaciotempo, said: “Having already supplied a number of Nissan’s contractors, we are very pleased to have been able to provide Nissan with extra, tailor-made storage capacity.

“Expansion is excellent news for a company, but running out of room can be a real problem, because of the cost of building new facilities, re-locating or storing stock elsewhere.

“However, if the company has a spare patch of land, a temporary building can solve these problems at a fraction of the cost, with a minimum of disruption and within a matter of weeks.”

Money and customer demands are named as the biggest challenges for the materials handling industry

Worries over finances and increasing customer demands are the biggest challenges facing the materials handling industry, according to a survey we carried out at this year’s IMHX exhibition.

Just over a quarter of people taking part in our survey said that rising costs, banks refusing to lend money and ongoing economic uncertainty were their biggest concerns.
Behaviour of customers - including those who make increased demands and others failing to pay – was another major challenge, according to 13 per cent of people, along with health and safety legislation, competition from cheap overseas imports and a lack of storage space.



Other visitors said that a lack of skilled labour, handling issues and the struggle to keep up with technological advancements were significant worries.

We dealt with a steady stream of visitors during the show and Scott Jameson, Spaciotempo’s director of sales, said that he recognised many of the concerns from conversations with their own customers.

He said: “Our survey was designed as a snapshot of how the industry was feeling and it certainly uncovered plenty of perceived challenges.

“There were one or two unexpected replies, but the concerns over finance, low confidence in the economy and a lack of space are certainly challenges that we have heard customers speak about before.















“Indeed, we are currently experiencing record demand for our temporary buildings, simply because they are ideal for companies who want to grow but don’t want the heavy investment that comes with building new premises or seeking off-site storage at a time when the economic outlook remains uncertain.”

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