Taking trucks off the road
Cube Modular is a specialist designer and manufacturer of modular portable buildings that can be folded down and stacked for transportation , greatly reducing the number of trucks needed to move them . Access caught up with MD Brandon Weston to discuss the company ’ s focus on sustainability damaging the environment and at the same time makes for cheaper transport costs for our clients – a win all round .
You supplied 109 units to this year ’ s Formula E London event , were all the elements stackable and what impact did that have in terms of truck-use savings ? The cabins we supplied are all stackable once folded down and they measure under two feet tall in the stacked position . This means that we can safely stack five units high on an HGV lorry in the space that a single unit would normally occupy . In this way we transport 10 of our larger 20ft cabins or 20 of our smaller 10ft cabins on one lorry . In the case of Formula E , we used 14 trucks in total instead of the usual 55 required to transport an equivalent number of fixed framed buildings . In other words , 41 trucks were taken off the road as a result of using our system .
Worcester-based Cube Modular has supplied temporary buildings to more than 50 events this year , with around 1,000 units rented . Among its biggest clients in recent months have been Glastonbury with nearly 200 units , Formula E at ExCeL London with 109 building units , and Cornwall ’ s Boardmasters with 99 .
Among the many stackable building solutions the company offers are ‘ event hotels ’ with two ensuite bedrooms , and a pop-up ticket office solution that can be folded down and stacked to enable 40 units to be transported on a single truck .
How integral is sustainability within your business in general and your offering , and why ? Sustainability has always been a key part of our vision for the Cube group of companies , and we have been lucky
Brandon Weston
enough to be able to build sustainable practices from the ground up . The founders of Cube all have children , and they share the growing desire of people around the globe to leave our planet in a state that is fit for future generations .
The beauty of our flagship product , the Continest building system , is that it offers a genuine reduction in C02 emissions , not just carbon offsetting , through reduced transport requirements . Transporting cabins folded down and stacked reduces the number of trucks on the road
How has the product range offering been expanded and what is the strategy going forward ? The Continest system has been developed this year to offer box office and retail versions . Our aim is to be a one-stop-shop for event organisers for all of their infrastructure needs , and we are now in a position to provide this . We ’ ve expanded our range of flat-pack structures by introducing Snoozy pods . These were originally conceived as glamping pods and they comfortably sleep two people on single beds but they can be transported flat up to 40 on one truck . We ’ ve extended the Snoozy range to include a ticket office model . Going forward we are developing an alternative demountable and stackable sleeping pod called the Maverick . It ’ s making an appearance at Big Feastival , and one or two other festivals , so we can gauge the market .
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