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Inflatable Tents & Structures
Custom inflatable tents and shelters, sized and laid out around the way you work. Sealed-air framing goes up in minutes, stays quiet once it's up, and packs away between uses — for work sites, events and community spaces.
More space, when you need it
Extra room for the next project, the next event or the next community gathering — without pouring a slab, hiring a frame or booking a rigging crew. An inflatable structure gives you the space while you need it, then deflates and packs away between uses.
These are built to order, not picked from a catalogue: quote-only, with the size, layout and fit-out deciding the cost. Tell us the job, the site and the size, and we spec the structure around it. The custom inflatable tents product page has the full specification and ordering detail.
Running an outdoor screening rather than a work site? Our projection and weather tents are the purpose-built option for sheltering a screen, projector and audience.
Why inflatable, rather than framed or hired
A traditional structure buys you the same square metres, so the case for inflatable is about everything around the space — how long it takes to get, what it costs you to keep, and what has to happen every time you move it.
It goes up in minutes, not in a morning
There is no frame to assemble: no poles to thread, no scaffold, no crew standing around waiting for the next section. You unpack it, connect a blower, and the structure raises itself while you watch. A small team can stand up a shelter that would otherwise be a half-day job with a truck and a rigging crew — which matters as much for the third site this month as it does for an emergency team working against the clock.
It is quiet once it’s standing
This is the difference people notice and rarely ask about in advance. These are sealed-air structures: the beams are inflated once and hold their pressure, so the blower comes off and the site goes quiet. A constant-airflow inflatable needs a blower running — and audible — for as long as it is standing. On a camp where people sleep during the day, at a ceremony, or inside a first-aid station where someone is trying to be heard, that is the whole difference.
It packs into a fraction of the space
Deflated, a structure travels in a fraction of the volume a framed shelter needs, and it lives in storage between uses instead of occupying a shed. That is what makes the same asset viable across a touring season, a project that moves as a site develops, and a council calendar with six events a year.
The middle of the room is empty
A sealed-air frame carries its load in the beams around the edge, so you get a clear internal span with nothing to work around — no post in the middle of the workshop, no pole where the trestle tables need to go.
You own it rather than re-hiring it
Hire costs recur every time; a structure you own is specified once for the way you actually work, and it carries your colours and your branding rather than someone else’s. Over a few seasons that changes the maths — and it means the shelter is available at short notice rather than subject to somebody else’s booking calendar.
Work sites. Events. Community spaces.
The same structure answers very different briefs. What changes between them is the specification, not the idea.
Work sites
Events
Community spaces
Why ours are different
Built by the people who build our screens
These come off the same factory floor as our commercial inflatable cinema screens — the same coated PVC, the same valves, the same seam construction that lives outdoors for a living. We spec and support them here in Australia, and the blower and anchors are quoted with the structure, so what arrives is a kit that stands up rather than a bag of fabric. Everything below is specified to your job before anything is built.
Custom shapes and sizes
Tailor the length, width, height and shape to suit your site and your application — a long tunnel-profile shelter for vehicles and plant, a square-profile structure with full headroom at the walls, or something sized to squeeze into the footprint you've actually got. The factory's range runs from compact personal tents of around 2m x 2m up to storage and hangar-scale structures measured in tens of metres. Window panels and door openings are positioned where the work needs them.
- Length, width, height and profile specified to the job
- Tunnel or square profile depending on the headroom you need
- Window panels and doorways positioned to suit
- Sized to the footprint your site allows
Your layout, inside
A sealed-air frame gives you a clear internal span with no poles to work around. Leave it open-plan, or divide it into separate areas for work, storage and privacy — useful when one structure has to be a workshop and a crib room, or a treatment area and a waiting area. A fitted floor turns a bare footprint into a working space.
- Open-plan clear span, or partitioned into rooms and zones
- Separate areas for work, storage and privacy
- Fitted floor options
Unpack, inflate, ready to use
Inflatable framing simplifies assembly, transport and storage compared with a traditional structure. It arrives as a packed roll, inflates from a blower, and it's ready — then the blower comes off and it stays up on its own. Between uses it deflates and packs away instead of occupying a shed.
- Three steps on site — unpack, inflate, ready to use
- No frame to assemble and no rigging crew
- Sealed air holds pressure with no blower running
- Deflates and packs down for transport and storage
Your colours, your branding
Printed into the structure rather than tacked onto it, so a branded marquee reads as part of the event rather than a hired tent with a banner on the front. Colour isn't limited to the panels, either. The air beams themselves are made up in coloured fabric, so the frame can carry your colours while the walls stay neutral — or the whole structure can be built in one brand colour. Logos and artwork are printed into the fabric rather than stuck on, and they can go in more than one place: the roof panels, the side and end walls, the gable above the entrance, and on internal walls where people are actually standing.
- Coloured air beams, coloured panels, or a single brand colour throughout
- Printed logos and artwork rather than applied banners
- Multiple logo positions — roof, side walls, gable, entrance and inside
- Artwork specified per structure, so campaign graphics can differ between units
The right fabric for the job
Fabric weight is a specification, not a fixed feature, and it's the main lever between a structure you can carry and one built to stand for months. Lighter coated fabrics keep the packed weight and volume down for touring and camping use; heavier grades with reinforcement webbing carry the loads on large spans and long deployments. Specialist finishes are available where the environment calls for them.
- Lighter coated fabrics where packed weight and volume matter
- Heavier grades with reinforcement webbing for large spans and long deployments
- Specialist finishes including muted and camouflage colourways
Frequently asked questions
- How quickly does one go up, and how many people does it take?
- Minutes, with a small team — unpack it, connect the blower, and the structure stands itself up. There's no frame to assemble, no poles to thread and no rigging crew, which is the whole point of inflatable framing. Larger structures take longer and want more hands on the guy lines and anchors, but the job stays the same — unpack, inflate, ready to use.
- Does a blower have to run the whole time?
- No. These are sealed-air structures — the beams are inflated once and hold their pressure, so the blower comes off and the site stays quiet. That's the practical difference from a constant-airflow inflatable, which needs a blower running (and audible) for as long as it's standing. It matters on a camp where people are sleeping, at a ceremony, or anywhere you'd rather not listen to a motor all day.
- How do they handle wind and weather on an exposed site?
- They're made in commercial-grade PVC with weather-resistant coatings — the same material our inflatable cinema screens run in the field — and they're held down with guy lines and ballast rather than pegs, so they work on hardstand as well as ground you can drive a peg into. We spec the anchoring alongside the structure, so the right water-filled weights come with it rather than being an afterthought. Like any temporary structure, there's a wind limit, and we'll tell you what it is for the one we quote.
- Do you supply lighting, heating or air conditioning?
- No. We build the structure — the fabric, the frame, the partitions, the floor and the branding — and that is where our supply stops. Lights, heaters, coolers, fans and power are yours to arrange, and customers fit their own all the time; nothing about the design gets in the way. If you tell us what you intend to run inside, we can allow for it in the size and layout we spec.
- Can we choose how heavy the fabric is?
- Yes, and it's worth thinking about before you settle on a size. Lighter coated fabrics keep the packed weight and volume down, which matters if the structure is being lifted by two people, freighted often or stored in a vehicle. Heavier grades — thicker PVC with reinforcement webbing through the beams — last longer, span further and cope better with a structure that stays up for months. Tell us whether the job leans towards moving it often or leaving it standing, and we'll spec the grade to suit rather than defaulting to one.
- Where can our logo go?
- More places than most people expect. Artwork is printed into the fabric, so it can sit on the roof panels (which is what reads from a distance and in aerial or drone footage), on the side and end walls at eye level, across the gable above the entrance, and on internal walls. The air beams can be made up in your colours as well, so the structure reads as yours before anyone is close enough to see a logo. Send us your artwork and we'll lay out the positions with you as part of the quote.
- Can we move it between sites?
- Yes — that's a large part of why people choose inflatable over a traditional structure. Deflate it, pack it down and it travels in a fraction of the space a framed shelter needs, then goes back up at the next site. It suits touring events moving between towns, projects that shift as a site develops, and gear that has to live in storage between uses.
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