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 Supporting Disaster Relief Providing Home Away from Home
SUPPORTING DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS A SPECIALTY FOR INTREPID STRUCTURESTM
Intrepid Structures Division of Harbor Homes, LLC Provides Home Away from Home for Relief Workers and Industrial Operations in Remote Locales
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 4, 2010 – Harbor Homes, LLC knows a thing or two about disaster relief. Harbor Homes was a leading supplier of disaster relief housing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and it is one of only four companies that holds a coveted $153 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The company is also currently building transitional shelters (or T-Shelters) in Haiti in response to last spring’s earthquake that has displaced nearly 2 million residents.
According to Marketing Director Matt Williams, “Certain weaknesses in the disaster management system became apparent during the response to Hurricane Katrina. Everyone has heard about the various problems with FEMA trailers giving off noxious fumes. This was a result of the post hoc response to a rapidly emerging need to house tens of thousands of displaced Gulf residents. One step that the Department of Homeland Security has taken to ensure that this does not happen in the future is to establish contract relationships with companies that have demonstrated a capability and capacity to produce products that meet federal indoor air quality standards in sufficient quantities to meet emerging demand. Harbor Homes is one of the few companies in the nation that has met these stringent requirements.”
Harbor Homes launched the Intrepid StructuresTM brand earlier this year as a natural extension to its existing core business of disaster relief housing. According to Harbor Homes CEO Lucas Stewart, “We recognized that many of the structures that we were building for disaster relief could be elaborated upon for deployment as field support structures for use in the oil and gas exploration and minerals mining industries as well as in support of disaster relief efforts around the globe. Intrepid StructuresTM represents our company’s response to this need. In addition to various domestic installations, we have deployed modular bunk houses, man camps, latrines and shower houses, wastewater treatment facilities, desalination equipment, recreation and commercial laundry facilities, and commercial kitchens in Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Antigua.”
Harbor Homes knows the value of taking care of disaster relief workers and field operators that work in isolated areas around the globe, because many of its disaster relief employees often find themselves working in such conditions. “If you don’t take care of the people who support your remote operations—whether industrial or humanitarian in purpose—worker health, morale, and wellbeing will suffer. And that will negatively affect the mission,” says Matthew Batson, Vice President of Harbor Homes. “The ability to take a shower, wash your clothes, get a restful night’s sleep, and have a hot meal is important to operational effectiveness. Intrepid StructuresTM understands this, and we build field support structures in support of this objective.”
The Harbor Homes family of companies includes the PermaShelterTM, Intrepid StructuresTM, and Outlast Emergency ProductsTM brands. Harbor Homes manufactures, delivers, and assembles a wide range of disaster relief housing, field support structures, and other non-food item (NFI) relief supplies throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Contact:
Matt Williams
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1207 Sunset Drive
Thomasville, Georgia USA 31792
Ph: +229 234 2911
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