Case Studies
Featured Fiberglass House for Pump Skid
Location: Seal Creek, OR
Environment: Water Treatment Plant
Application: Fiberglass Shelter to Integrator for Turn-Key Pump Station Skid
Pump House for Superfund Site
Environment: Hazardous chemicals and high daily temperatures
Location: Rialto, California
Application: Two Fiberglass Shelters for Pump Station & Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Equipment
Highlights: 3” Insulated walls for climate control in hot environment and PE stamped certification for California’s building codes.
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FIBERGLASS CABINETS
Environment: Boiler Room
Location: Illinois, USA
Application: Fiberglass cabinet for Chemical Dosing System.
Highlights: Fiberglass enclosure to protect pump system from harsh environment.
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Tough Shelters
Environment: Tropical
Location: Destin, Florida
Application: Fiberglass Shelter Designed for Water & Wastewater Application
Highlights: Two fiberglass shelters to protect chemical feed systems. Gel coat layer to protect from excess moisture in air, chemicals, and UV damage that occurs in tropical environments.
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Natural Gas Sound Attenuation
Environment: Residential Community
Location: Texas
Application: Fiberglass Shelter Designed For Natural Gas Application
Highlights: 14' x 35' x 8' fiberglass shelter that included one door on each of the long walls, two vents for basic natural ventilation, and two skylights to assist in visual inspection of the station.
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Leachate Pump Station
Environment: County Landfill
Location: Maryland
Application: Fiberglass Shelter for Leachate Pump Station
Highlights: Replacement fiberglass shelter for leachate pump station. Withstand average rainfalls of 45 inches a year and average humidity of 77%. Also accommodate for average winter temperatures of 29 degrees. The shelter's insulation was increased, providing an R-Value of 15.
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Remote Hydroelectric Facility
Environment: Remote Wilderness
Location: Alaska
Application: Fiberglass Shelter for Intake Air Valve Protection
Highlights: 6’ x 9’ x 8’ shelter, 3.5” foam core insulation furnishing them with an R-Value of R-24 to prevent the pipeline from freezing in average winter lows of 21°F that can dip as low as 3°F
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City of St. Peters
Environment: Flood Plain
Location: Missouri
Application: Elevated Well Pump Houses
Highlights: Fiberglass shelter with metal base for mounting on a pedestal and 4’ x 4’ roof hatch.
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STS Global
Environment: Hilltop
Location: Hawaii
Application: Protect Telecommunications Satellite Equipment
Highlights: Offsite construction of shelter with highly complex internal systems.
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Rural Water District
Environment: Water Treatment Facility
Location: Kansas
Application: Skid Mounted Pump Station Shelter
Highlights: Turnkey solution with excellent service and great value.
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Knight Hawk Coal
Environment: Coal Mine
Location: Illinois
Application: Outdoor Shelter for Slide Gate Air Compressor
Highlights: Integrated heater and exhaust fan to keep the environment at desired levels.
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Military Base
Environment: Hot, Humid Area
Location: Southeast USA
Application: Well House and Electrical Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Replace three rotting wood shelters with fiberglass shelters backed by a 25 year warranty.
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Alcon Pharmaceutical
Environment: Corporate Campus
Location: Texas
Application: Shelter for Commercial Sprinkler System Equipment
Highlights: Aesthetically-pleasing shelters with a faux brick finish and meadow green color to blend in on beautiful corporate campus.
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Ohio DOT
Environment: Chemical Storage Area
Location: Ohio
Application: Protect Brine Making System
Highlights: Shelter durable enough to withstand wind, snow, ice, and seismic loads for critical systems.
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DuPage County Public Works
Environment: Wastewater Treatment Plant
Location: Illinois
Application: Shelter to Protect Three Unique Systems
Highlights: Prefab shelter with internal walls to create three isolated rooms for a chemical feed system, water heater and SCADA system.
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Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office
Environment: Shelter Next to Communications Tower
Location: Illinois
Application: Shelter for Public Safety Radio Equipment
Highlights: Chose Shelter Works fiberglass over concrete shelter for customization and value.
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Knoxville Utilities Board
Environment: Various Public Utilities
Location: Knoxville, TN
Applications: Chemical Injection and Water Booster Station Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works provided money-saving solutions for a variety of equipment protection applications.
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Utility Company
Environment: Natural Gas Facility
Location: Midwest
Application: SCADA and Odorizer Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Durable and portable shelters designed to latest for years and be used for many different applications.
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Old Dominion Electric
Environment: Power Plant
Location: Pennsylvania
Application: Storage Shelter for CO2 bottles.
Highlights: Design and build a customized shelter to store sensitive CO2 bottles
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Private Airfield
Environment: Airfield
Location: Gulf Coast
Application: Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Build a frangible, hurricane-resistant shelter in safety orange and white with custom windows, doors, and roof.
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Utility Company
Environment: Tropical Location
Location: Hawaii
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Delivered shelter in pieces to be assembled on-site - minimizing shipping expense.
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Public Utility - Oil & Gas
Environment: Area with -20°F Temperatures
Location: Wyoming
Application: LACT Equipment Enclosure
Highlights: Custom built shelter with knockout panels and added insulation.
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Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources
Environment: Riverside Location
Location: Minnesota
Application: Protect Electric Fish Barrier Equipment
Highlights: Developed a highly customized shelter with extensive HVAC and insulation while still allowing a cellular signal to pass through.
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Battery Recycling Company
Environment: Battery Recycling Facility
Location: Alabama
Application: Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Non-corroding shelter to house computer equipment, SCADA screens, POC systems, and transformers while protecting against caustic dust.
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Water Utility Company
Environment: Small Town Communities
Location: Missouri
Application: Well Houses
Highlights: Deliver cost-effective solutions backed by a 25-year warranty to small communities.
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Water Treatment Facility
Environment: Area with Potential Flooding
Location: New York City
Application: Water Treatment System Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works shipped this highly customized shelter by barge to get it to its location.
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Bio-Guard Systems
Environment: Farming & Agriculture
Location: Globally
Application: Innovative Water Filtration System Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works fiberglass shelters are chosen for their excellent durability, insulating properties, aesthetics, and light weight.
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Chemical Company
Environment: Chemical Processing Plant
Location: Michigan
Application: Chlorine Feed System Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works designed a completely custom shelter that could withstand the highly corrosive environment.
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Coca-Cola
Environment: Bottling Plant
Location: Virginia
Application: PH Adjustment Chemical Feed System Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works completed most of the electrical and plumbing work and obtained state labels before shipping.
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Natural Gas Operation
Environment: Natural Gas Transmission Compressor Station
Location: Midwest
Application: Protective Shelter for Compressors and Valves
Highlights: Developed a custom engineered elevated shelter with skylights to provide access to workers while protecting pipes below.
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Amested Rail
Environment: Metal Foundry
Location: Granite City, Illinois
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works chosen for its low maintenance, high-value shelter backed by 25-year warranty.
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Water Treatment Facility
Environment: Water Treatment Plant
Location: Southwest
Application: Chemical Dosing and SCADA Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works shelters are selected for three unique applications at this water treatment facility including chemical dosing and SCADA system buildings.
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Aqua Illinois
Environment: Sewage Treatment Plant
Location: Illinois
Application: Headworks Bar Screen Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works builds an extra tall shelter with multiple access and knockout panels to accommodate existing pipes.
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GPL Odorizers
Environment: Natural Gas Facilities
Location: Nationwide
Application: Natural Gas Odorizer System Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Manufacturer of gas odorizer systems offers clients Shelter Works shelters to effectively protect its equipment.
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Build Illinois
Environment: Remote Locations
Location: Illinois
Application: Regulator Stations and Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works provides a variety of protective shelters to help the state of Illinois upgrade its natural gas infrastructure.
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EquipSolutions
Environment: Water Treatment Facilities
Location: Nationally
Application: Chemical Feed and Monitoring Systems Shelters
Highlights: Customized shelters to help protect critical equipment at water treatment facilities.
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Gas Company
Environment: Shelter Next to Road
Location: Ohio
Application: Gas Transfer Station
Highlights: Impact absorbing shelter protects equipment while sustaining minimal damage.
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Precision Pipeline Equipment
Environment: Natural Gas Facilities
Location: Midwest & Northeast
Application: Analyzer Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Maintenance-free, turnkey shelters featuring explosion-proof electrical packages for the natural gas industry.
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A Civil Group
Environment: School Campus
Location: Missouri
Application: Irrigation Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works delivers shelter that met the size, wind, and snow load specs and insulation value needed to ensure adequate protection of the equipment.
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Maintenance Company
Environment: Outside Locations
Location: Kansas City
Application: Communications Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Temperature and weather-resistant shelters needed to protect sensitive communications equipment.
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Military Base
Environment: Helicopter Refueling Station
Location: Upstate New York
Application: Mechanical Room Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works' fiberglass composite design provides a frangible building with an inherent thermal barrier and dimensional stability with low conduction.
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GCI Communications
Environment: Remote Arctic Location
Location: Anchorage Alaska
Application: Telecommunications Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Durable weather and temperature resistant shelter with customized floor.
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New Windsor Township
Environment: Outdoors
Location: New Windsor, Maryland
Application: Sewage Pumping Station Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works created a spacious shelter that provided better access to workers.
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U.S. Government
Environment: Remote Site in Mojave Desert
Location: Southwest US
Application: Air Compressor Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works built a fiberglass shelter that offered the ideal level of protection from heat, UV rays, and freezing temperatures.
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Utility Company
Environment: Space Under Low Hanging Wires
Location: Midwest
Application: Natural Gas Regulator Station Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works created 2-piece shelter that could be placed under wires and assembled quickly on site.
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Public Works
Environment: Open Field
Location: Normal, Illinois
Application: Sanitary Lift Station Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works provides a better building solution to existing wood and brick equipment shelters.
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Northwest Water Reclamation Center
Environment: Wastewater Treatment Plant
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works creates climate controlled and thermally stable, storm-resistant shelter to keep sensitive equipment cool and dry.
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AMS Sampling Equipment
Environment: Truck Mounted Shelter
Location: Northwest U.S.
Application: Mobile Field Office Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works delivers a low maintenance, durable, insulated work station to protect technicians from the elements while working in the field.
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Bolton and Menke
Environment: Next to Existing Shelter
Location: Crystal, Minnesota
Application: Shelter With Containment Floor for Chemical Processing Equipment
Highlights: Shelter Works delivers "The Works" in terms of customization including doors mounted 2 feet from the floor of the shelter, gas-tight partition wall, and secondary containment basin with grated fiberglass walking surface.
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Envirep
Environment: Landfill
Location: Maryland
Application: Leachate Pump Station Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works supplies a complete pre-engineered system including fiberglass shelter, HVAC, explosion-proof electrical, and prefab wall penetrations for piping.
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Public University
Environment: College Campus
Location: Southern U.S.
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelter for Power Cooling Plant
Highlights: Shelter Works creates a prefabricated, 12-foot tall building that can be shipped flat and quickly assembled on site.
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Telecommunications Company
Environment: Near Coastal Waters
Location: Caribbean Islands
Application: Telecom Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works develops air-conditioned shelter with enhanced hurricane, humidity, and temperature resistance.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Environment: Research Facility
Location: Alabama
Application: Aquarium Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works fiberglass shelters are designed to last in a high humidity environment.
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Power Company
Environment: Nuclear Power Plant
Location: Midwest
Application: Chemical Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works adds elevated containment floor to protect against spills.
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U.S. Air Force
Environment: Airfield
Location: Coastal Location
Application: BAK 12 Arresting Gear Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works designed a hurricane-resistant, yet "frangible" shelter complete with mesh windows and base to fit onto an existing, knee wall.
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CH2M Hill
Environment: Wastewater Treatment Plant
Location: U.S.
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works's fiberglass shelters offer attractive alternative to cast-in-place concrete shelters.
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Descco
Environment: Military Base
Location: Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Application: Pump Station Shelter - Addition to Existing Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works creates a three-sided shelter that can be affixed to the existing shelter to expand the space without interruption.
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Town of Olla
Environment: Recreational Area
Location: Olla, Louisiana
Application: Restroom Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works was chosen for its value, longevity and resistance to graffiti.
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Telecom Company
Environment: Remote Arctic Location
Location: Ontario, Canada
Application: Microwave Repeater Stations Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works creates strong, highly insulated shelters that are still light enough to be transported to remote locations.
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Marine Survey Company
Environment: Underneath Ship's Helicopter Pad
Location: Sailing Vessel
Application: Workout Room Shelter
Highlights: Application required a shelter that could withstand a damp, salt-air environment and be easily assembled onsite.
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Walker Process Equipment
Environment: Water Filtration Stations
Location: North Carolina
Application: Field Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Walker Process Equipment recommends top-of-the-line fiberglass shelters customized to one's exact needs from Shelter Works.
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Water Company
Environment: Water Treatment Plant
Location: Brownsville, Texas
Application: Electrical Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Custom fiberglass shelters with reinforced walls are ideal solution for protecting equipment near the Gulf of Mexico.
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Xylem
Environment: Golf Course Facility
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Application: Irrigation Pumping Station
Highlights: Easy to install, prefabricated and certified shelters from Shelter Works are an ideal alternative to concrete shelters.
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Newcastle County
Environment: Residential Neighborhoods
Location: Delaware
Application: Wastewater Pumping Stations
Highlights: Chief of Facilities chooses Shelter Works for the unmatched durability of our shelters.
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City of Fayetteville
Environment: Ice Storm
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Application: Pump Station Shelter
Highlights: During a large ice storm in 2010, a tree fell on the structure and didn’t even leave a dent in it. Plus, since the building had vents, city workers were able to put a generator into the structure so that water could continue to flow despite the power outage.
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Sagebrush Pipeline Equipment
Environment: Natural Gas and Liquid Petroleum
Location: Montana
Application: Flow Control Valve Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works shelters are an ideal choice due to extreme temperature resistance and flexibility in design - especially integrated knockout panels.
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Union Pacific
Environment: Between Railroad Tracks
Location: U.S.
Application: Railroad Bungalow
Highlights: Weather-resistant fiberglass shelters with sliding door are an ideal alternative to deteriorated wooden buildings.
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California Dept. of Parks & Rec.
Environment: Redwood Forest
Location: Northern California
Application: Potable Water Treatment Equipment Shelters
Highlights: Team overcomes spotted owl season, wheelbarrow only access, and other environmental concerns to deliver shelter to a remote location.
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Meridian Water and Sewer
Environment: Residential Areas
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Application: Well Pump Enclosures
Highlights: Shelter Works combines high-tech and low-tech options: high-tech security features utilizing natural skylights and a limited, low-tech electrical package that could be easily disconnected.
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BAE Systems
Environment: Airfield
Location: California
Application: Radar System Enclosure
Highlights: Shelter Works created a frangible but sturdy, secure shelter that could repeatedly withstand the forces of a jet wash.
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Oil Field
Environment: High Elevations and Heavy Snow Loads
Location: Rocky Mountains
Application: Valves and Piping Shelter
Highlights: All-weather shelter features hatches that allow access to the equipment while protecting workers.
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City of Carrolton
Environment: River Floodplain
Location: Illinois
Application: Elevated Well Pump Enclosure
Highlights: The shelter is mounted on a pedestal and features insulated walls and floors to keep pipes from freezing.
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Gas Company
Environment: Rural Areas
Location: Illinois
Application: Natural Gas Wellhead Separator Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works replaces small metal buildings with larger fiberglass shelters for improved productivity and lower costs.
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Sacramento County Water Agency
Environment: Water Treatment Plants
Location: California
Application: Corrosion Resistant Chemical Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works supplied a series of multi-room fiberglass chemical buildings to contain the fumes in one room and allow other equipment to be protected in another room.
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Verizon
Environment: Rooftop of Commercial Building
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Application: Rooftop Cell Tower Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works' lightweight shelters offer an ideal solution for rooftop applications.
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Public Utility
Environment: Sewage Treatment Plant
Location: Johnson City, TN
Application: Lift Station Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works' service technicians perform onsite fabrication and installation of double doors into the existing shelter.
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Village of Williamsburg
Environment: Corporate Campus
Location: Williamsburg, Ohio
Application: Grit Washer and Mechanical Bar Screen Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works creates multi-level shelter to place on an existing concrete slab poured at two different elevations with an 18-inch difference in height.
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Prominent Fluid Controls
Environment: Shelters with Slippery Substances
Location: Nationwide
Application: Elevated Spill Containment Floor Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works installs elevated fiberglass grid flooring that can contain 550 gallons of liquid - allowing workers to safely walk on flooring in case of spill.
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Coal Company
Environment: Coal Mine
Location: Logan, West Virginia
Application: Field Equipment Shelter
Highlights: Shelter Works designs and builds special "flattened roof" so shelter can be delivered under low-clearance overpass.
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Longstanding Customer
Environment: Remote Location
Location: Tennessee
Application: Lift Station Enclosure
Highlights: Shelter Works designs and delivers customized shelter within five weeks.
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Utility Company
Environment: Post Hurricane Rita
Location: Louisiana
Application: Hurricane Proof Shelters
Highlights: Shelter Works shelters survives hurricane without even a ding on it despite ample damage to houses, trees, and other buildings in the immediate area.
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Shelter Works' Customers
Environment: All types
Location: Nationwide
Application: Delivery of Prefabricated Shelters
Highlights: Customers share comments on their experiences with our exceptional delivery drivers.
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