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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Sprung Buildings in the Bakken Oil Patch -- The Bakken, North Dakota, USA

Link here.

The link is to a "television" site, so I doubt the link will stay long.
Oil field companies seem to pop up overnight. At least it looks that way on the landscape. Many of these companies are using Sprung Buildings - portable structures that can be built at an unbelievable speed.

A Sprung Building is a structure that uses kevlar-type fabric coated with vinyl and then is placed over an aluminum I-Beam ribbing structure. Because of how it`s made, companies can erect them quickly.

“We just got done doing a structure for Baker Hughes that was 11,000 square feet, and even with some bad weather, we got it done in less than three weeks" says Structure Solutions owner Steven Below.

And what makes these facilities so unique is that they can withstand the cold of the North Pole and the heat of the Middle East.