Rapid Emergency Response: How Fews Keep Businesses Running

Rapid Emergency Response: How Fews Keep Businesses Running

When a fire, flood, structural failure or a crisis like RAAC-affected concrete puts a building out of action, the priority isn’t just repair, it’s continuity. Staff still need somewhere to eat, work and train, and pupils still need somewhere to sit exams. This is where Fews’ temporary structures come in, offering a fast, robust bridge between disaster and full recovery.

Canteens

Feeding a workforce or student body doesn’t stop because a dining hall is unusable. Fews builds temporary canteens with a full catering fit-out including refrigeration, electricity, lighting and temperature control plus bespoke, easy-clean flooring suited to high footfall. Its work for Myton School, delivered as part of the wider RAAC response, shows how a temporary canteen and drama studio combination can be installed quickly on school grounds without disrupting the rest of the site. On construction sites, the same approach expands site canteens to meet capacity needs, with lockable doors and alarm systems added for security.

Offices

Displaced office teams need more than four walls and a roof. Fews’ temporary office and welfare solutions come fully temperature-controlled, carpeted, furnished and wired for power and water, with washroom facilities available where needed. On construction sites, various types of welfare units, from simple soft-sided shelters to fully insulated bespoke buildings mean the offer can be scaled to the urgency and duration of the situation, whether that’s a few weeks or several years.