HB Rentals Delivers Skid House for Disaster Recovery Efforts in Panama City, Florida

Nov 1, 2018

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Temporary accommodations provider HB Rentals has completed the delivery and installation of a Crew Quarters Skid House to Panama City, FL. The skid house will provide living accommodations for a construction crew working on repairing roadways impacted by Hurricane Michael.

Skid House

HB’s Derek Fernandez, Senior Business Development Manager, was contacted by a client looking for accommodations for their construction crew that would be working in Panama City, FL to clear and repair roadways that had been impacted by the hurricane. The client needed enough beds to sleep twelve people while also providing cooking and living areas. The construction crew would stay in the unit for the next three to six months. After discussing these needs with the client, Derek then worked with HB’s operations team at the Broussard facility to come up with a solution that would meet all the client’s needs.

HB’s solution was to provide a two bedroom skid house setup to sleep a crew of up to twelve people. The bedrooms were outfitted with bunk beds that allowed for six people to sleep in each room. Between the two bedrooms there is a living room with a couch, recliner, tables, and TV. Connected to the living room is a full kitchen complete with oven, microwave, sink, dishwasher, and refrigerator. By utilizing the two bedroom skid house HB was able to meet all the needs requested by the client.

Derek shared the solution that he and the operations team had worked out with the client and the client agreed that it would meet all of their requested needs. The client then informed HB they would also need a sewer solution as they had just found out they would not be able to tie into sewer lines on location. With HB’s full line of auxiliary equipment, this wasn’t an issue to add additional auxiliary equipment. HB would also provide a 3,000 gallon sewage holding tank and sump pump. With these additions the client would have a fully functioning skid house.

Now that the final equipment mix had been finalized, HB’s operation team, got to work. They prepped the equipment and transported it to Panama City, FL were they installed the equipment on location, all in under two days. This was a great opportunity to utilize our equipment to provide relief for those in need during a difficult time,said Nick Comeaux, Operations Manager.

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