A container dome is a covered, weatherproof shelter built on two parallel shipping containers as side walls, with a tensioned fabric or rigid steel roof spanning between them. It’s the most cost-effective way to put a large covered area on site fast – no concrete pad, no building permit complexity in many cases, no months of construction. The two containers do double duty as side walls and as workshops, offices, or storage at each end.

Container domes are standard infrastructure across Australian mining, agriculture, civil construction, and heavy industry. You’ll see them sheltering haul trucks at mine sites, covering hay and grain at farms, housing fleets of yellow goods at civil contractors, and serving as workshops at remote operations. The reasons are obvious – they cost a fraction of a steel-framed shed, they deploy in days rather than months, they can be relocated, and the container side walls give you secured storage built into the structure.

Our standard configurations use 20ft or 40ft containers as the side walls, set parallel at spans of 6m, 12m, or 18m+. The fabric cover is heavy-duty UV-resistant PVC (typically 600gsm or 900gsm depending on specification), tensioned over a steel truss frame anchored to the container roofs. Cyclone-rated builds for North-West WA use heavier truss spec, additional tie-downs, and reinforced fabric. End walls are optional – open-ended for drive-through access, partially enclosed for weather protection, or fully enclosed for security and climate control.

For mining operators, we supply container domes as fly-camp workshops, equipment shelters, and bulk storage for ore samples, parts, and consumables. For agriculture, the spans are typically 12m–18m for hay sheds, grain storage, and machinery shelter. For civil contractors, the most common deployment is a 6m span for vehicle and plant shelter at project depots.