Shelter at scale
Rest centre.
When people are displaced — flood, fire, gas, a building evacuation — a Category 1 responder has a duty to shelter them, and the plan can't start at the incident. A rest centre has to come together fast, at scale, and treat displaced people with warmth and dignity. Here's how to plan the shelter side of it.
Modular is the game
The structures need to connect into a continuous, covered footprint and expand as the numbers do. Modular is the whole game here: one run for reception and registration, another for rest and welfare, a quiet or family zone divided off — all from a kit that strikes down and stores between deployments rather than sitting as single-use stock.
How it treats people
Heating and lighting that make a cold night bearable; level access and space for wheelchairs, families and assistance animals; somewhere private for distress. A rest centre is judged on how it treats people, not how fast it went up — though it has to do both. Climate and power scope to the site, with lighting and heating run off Instagrid units where mains is awkward.
Contingency stock
Contingency stock has to be ready, not ordered when the flood's already rising. Owning a certified, repairable, store-and-redeploy fleet usually beats hire on readiness and on lifetime cost — the maths is in our guide to what emergency structures cost.
Common questions
Temporary shelter that receives and cares for people displaced by an emergency — flood, fire, gas, a building evacuation. Category 1 responders have a duty to plan for it, and the shelter has to come together fast, at scale, and treat people with warmth and dignity.
It depends on whether you are providing reception, rest, welfare or overnight space, but the structures should connect into a continuous footprint and expand as the numbers do — so you scale by adding units rather than guessing one fixed size.
Yes. Every Temporium shelter is modular — one run for reception and registration, another for rest and welfare, a quiet or family zone divided off — all within a connected footprint.
It should be: level access, room for wheelchairs, families and assistance animals, and somewhere private for distress. A rest centre is judged on how it treats people, so accessibility and dignity are part of the specification, not an afterthought.
Contingency stock has to be ready, not ordered once the flood is already rising. Owning a certified, repairable, store-and-redeploy fleet usually beats hire on both readiness and lifetime cost.
Next step
Tell us the scenarios you plan for and the numbers, and we'll scope a modular, store-and-redeploy shelter fleet to them.
