Planning support
Event equipment knowledge centre — guides & how-tos
Guides.
Useful checks for event operators, procurement teams, and site planners before they choose temporary structures, heating, cooling, power, or anchoring.
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These tools help you check capacity, cost, and fit before asking for pricing. Results are planning estimates, not engineering sign-off.
Generator running cost
Estimate diesel use, cost per hour, annual fuel spend, and cost per kWh.
OpenBESS savings
Compare generator-only running with a hybrid battery energy storage setup.
OpenPower load
Build a load list before choosing battery power, e-generators, or site power.
OpenSpace sizing
Estimate floor area before choosing a tent, shelter, or temporary structure.
OpenRead before you specify
Guides
Short, source-led guides for decisions that affect cost, safety, service life, and the quality of the finished event setup.
Emergency response tents
Frame vs inflatable, EN 13782 wind and EN 13501-1 fire certification, rapid deployment, modular setups, and the documentation blue-light procurement needs.
OpenIncident command posts
Specifying a tented command base: tent vs vehicle, power and blackout, multi-agency joint working, and rapid modular set-up.
OpenWelfare & rehabilitation
On-scene rehab for fire and rescue crews: what a welfare shelter must do, and keeping crews warm, dry and monitored at long incidents.
OpenEvacuation & relief shelter
Planning temporary shelter at scale: rest centres, modular footprints, warmth and accessibility, and buy-vs-hire for contingency stock.
OpenEmergency structure costs
What drives the price of emergency temporary structures, how to compare suppliers, and the buy-once total-cost-of-ownership maths.
OpenRestaurant & hospitality tents
Building an all-season outdoor dining space: pavement licences, compliance for public dining, winter heating, and choosing the structure.
OpenEvent power planning
How to plan generator, battery, and hybrid power from load, runtime, charging, noise, and site layout.
OpenGenerator running cost
How fuel use, load percentage, run hours, servicing, and diesel price change the real cost of temporary power.
OpenHybrid BESS power
How battery energy storage can reduce generator runtime, fuel handling, noise, and low-load running.
OpenBattery basics
What to check on capacity, continuous output, peak output, charging, IP ratings, and transport.
OpenPower TCO
A practical view of fuel, service, replacement, charging, logistics, and annual ownership cost.
OpenRepairable kit
Why long-life, repairable equipment can be cheaper over time than low-cost disposable kit.
OpenPrinting and branding
How to specify printed tents, banners, inflatables, flags, artwork, colour matching, and proofing.
OpenOwning and running the kit
How-tos
Anchoring, covers, heating, lighting, joining, walls, branding, transport and storage — how the kit is specified and looked after through a working life.
Anchoring and ballasting a pop-up gazebo
How to anchor and ballast a pop-up gazebo so its wind rating holds — water bags, stackable weights, cast iron, and grass anchoring, per frame and site.
OpenPVC vs polyester gazebo covers
PVC or polyester for a gazebo cover? Why our 380gsm PVC is the recommended professional cover — extreme durability, wipe-clean, 100% waterproof for life — plus the heavier LP500, and where polyester fits.
OpenHeating a pop-up gazebo or temporary structure
How to heat a temporary structure: clamp-mounted infrared, sizing to the footprint, and when to move to Rex Nordic diesel heaters with battery power.
OpenLighting a gazebo for evening and winter events
How to light a pop-up gazebo for winter and evening events: a central spider bracket, low-draw LED that runs off battery, and a kit that survives the van.
OpenJoining gazebos into one continuous covered space
How to chain pop-up gazebos into one dry space: rigid leg links that hold the wind rating, continuous PVC guttering, and sealed cable pass-throughs.
OpenChoosing gazebo walls — full, half, 3-in-1 and how they fit
Full, half and 3-in-1 gazebo walls: how each configuration works, the tension bar that keeps print taut, and how walls help hold the wind rating.
OpenHow the sliding-wall and tension-bar system keeps branding taut
How the sliding-wall and bottom tension-bar system holds printed gazebo branding drum-tight on the XP, ZP, Pagode and GP — and why it adds wind resistance.
OpenTransporting and storing a professional gazebo between events
How to transport and store a professional gazebo so it lasts: wheel sets, transport bags, and drying/storage that prevents mildew and frame damage.
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