18 06, 2020

Aries Offers Temporary Housing to Renewable Energy Workers and Seasonal Workers

2020-06-18T22:09:15+00:00
Two venerable energy workers in yellow vests and blue helmets installing solar panels under a blue sky with a mountain range in the distance behind them.

While many citizens have either lost their jobs or have begun to work from home, the renewable energy and the agricultural sector are thriving, as both provide products that have become two of the essential daily needs of Americans: food and energy.

From avocados in California, apples in Washington, grapefruit in Texas, corn in Iowa, and blueberries in Maine, migrant workers generally travel from state to state to help harvest vegetables and other produce according to the optimal time of the season for each ripe and ready crop. This work is temporary, but very difficult, what better way to reward these essential seasonal employees than with comfortable housing?

According to the Environmental Defense Fund, “[the] renewable energy sector employs 777,000 people, roughly the same as the U.S. telecommunications industry. Bioenergy – which comes from organic material – remains the largest employer, while the solar industry is second.

The most rapid renewable energy job growth has come from the solar and wind sectors, which rose by 24.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017.” Like seasonal farmworkers, renewable energy workers travel to locations far from their home in order to install energy storage systems and advanced, modern power grids. They also construct and install energy-efficient equipment. Another highly respected, but also potentially backbreaking job, renewable energy workers, too, deserve a comfortable place to rest their heads each night.

Seasonal farmworkers picking vegetables with a grove of trees in the distance behind them and a clear, blue sky above them.

Aries is a full-service provider of residential housing with a focus on quality, value, delivery, and service. We understand the large scale housing needs of remote labor industries, like renewable energy and seasonal farm work. Composed of engineering, manufacturing, facility management, and sales professionals, our experienced team takes great pride in meeting the needs of remote residential housing construction and delivery. Aries can help you design, install, and operate the best possible accommodation for your project.

No matter how remote the location or challenging the environment, Aries can design, manufacture, and install a workforce housing complex that is specialized for harsh winter climates. Our goal is to provide state-of-the-art warmth and self-sufficiency through extended periods of extreme weather. We offer cozy sleeping accommodations, commercial kitchens, dining halls, recreation & workout facilities, restrooms & showers, offices, conference rooms, and laundry facilities. Our self-sufficient remote cold climate camp designs can, by request, include a sewage treatment plant and enough generator power for the entire complex.

An advertisement that reads, “Space Solutions to Implement Social Distancing” with Aries’ trademarked ram head logo and their phone number: 1-888-598-6689.

We also have a deep understanding of remote desert camps, or extreme hot weather workforce housing. By offering a large menu of entertainment, dining, and fitness amenities to help your workers get a good night’s sleep, we hope to increase the productivity and focus of your workers, so that they can do the best job possible.

Here are some of the services that our temporary housing suites include:

  • Land sourcing and development
  • Camp design
  • Building engineering
  • Custom and ready-made floor plans
  • Remote site readiness
  • In-house manufacturing
  • Delivery and installation
  • Camp operations
  • Extended product warranty
  • Project financing

Aries has thought of everything in order to make it easier for you! Companies must also provide food services and other accommodations for the workers, often for extended periods of time, and, so, here are some of the other special amenities that Aries also offers:

  • Food service and housekeeping
  • Security and transportation services
  • Laundry and tailoring services
  • Waste management
  • Vector control
  • Labor support and supply
  • Tailor-made maintenance
  • Contracts
  • Power transmission and design including generators
A row of Aries workforce housing units, white with blue panels, with satellite dishes and mechanical air handlers attached to the ends.


ABOUT ARIES

Aries has offices and operates in all regions across the U.S., including the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast, the Midwest, South Central, the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada. For this reason, Aries features its modular short- and long-term housing in several locations across North America.

Aries sells prefabricated office buildings to be used as construction offices, portable school classrooms, mobile hospitals, workforce housing at oil pipeline sites, storage containers, and for disaster recovery relief, but we’d love to help you buy one for any purpose at all! We offer full turnkey solutions with exceptional customer service and robust financing options. We pride ourselves on combining product quality, design expertise, technical and financial innovation, and strategy that has already established us a first choice to customers.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Aries Offers Temporary Housing to Renewable Energy Workers and Seasonal Workers2020-06-18T22:09:15+00:00
24 02, 2020

World of Modular 2020 Annual Trade Show and Convention

2020-03-18T19:47:47+00:00

A beautiful image of Rosen Shingle Creek hotel & convention center favoring the golf course and lake, with the hotel reflecting in the still lake waters. This image is set atop of a skyline image of Orlando Florida at night. Headline reads, “World of Modular Convention and Tradeshow March 9-12 Orlando, FLA. – ARIES”

Founded in 1983, the Modular Building Institute (MBI) is the international non-profit trade association serving modular construction. Members are manufacturers, contractors, and dealers in two distinct segments of the industry – permanent modular construction and relocatable buildings. Associate members are companies supplying building components, services, and financing. MBI strives to keep up with the latest trends of the modular/offsite construction industry and has expanded its membership over the years to include architects, owner/developers, and general contractors. It is MBI’s mission to expand the use of offsite construction through innovative construction practices, outreach and education to the construction community and customers, and recognition of high quality modular designs and facilities. This is why, each year MBI hosts the annual World of Modular trade show and convention.

The 37th annual World of Modular will be held this year from March 9th-12th in Orlando, Florida. This event is meant to provide professionals in the commercial modular building industry a place to network, exchange ideas, learn from experts, discuss issues, display new products, and receive well-deserved awards and industry recognition. Events include a golf tournament, opening party, Exhibit Hall, speakers, Grand Prize Contests, and an awards banquet and VIP reception.

A photograph of Aries’ sponsored, keynote speaker Anirban Basu – a kind looking dark-haired man with a goatee and sparkly bright brown eyes.

Several important experts in business scheduled as the keynote speakers, including, Terry Jones, Anirban Basu, and Steffen Fuchs. As founder and CEO of Travelocity and having served as founding chairman of Kayak, Jones offers insight into how to transform a private company into a public company and the advantages of businesses being disruptors and innovators.

Anirban Basu, the speaker sponsored by Aries, is an economic trends expert and the CEO and founder of Sage Policy Group, Inc., a consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. He provides policy and economic consulting for numerous clients including developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers, and law firms. He has also written several high-profile reports on construction, including MBI’s “Economic & Financial Performance of Relocatable Buildings in the US Modular Building Industry.”

Steffen Fuchs, senior partner at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, will speak about how technological improvements, economic demands, and changing mind-sets in the world of modular building will garner interest and investment. Fuchs believes that more investment will give the industry a huge productivity boost, help solve the housing crisis in many markets, and significantly reshape the way we build today. Other topics that will be discussed by various speakers will include: best practices, lean construction, the integration of modular and site-built, passive house, LEED, and net zero.

Crowds of people socializing at The World of Modular exhibit hall. Image courtesy of WOM.

The World of Modular trade show an exciting and important event for anyone in the industry, and this year Aries is a gold sponsor. Katie Roman, VP of Workforce Housing at Aries, stresses the benefits of this tradeshow to the industry, “We attend the World of Modular annual convention and tradeshow every year in order to stay current with the trends in this quickly changing industry. We understand the value of networking with our colleagues and promoting modular industries across the board. We look forward to WOM each and every year!”

With over thirty years of experience in the business, Aries’ presence and industry insights at the 2019 World of Modular Tradeshow are not to be missed!

“Aries wants to be as involved as possible… from the World of Modular to any other modular industry event, we are there. We aren’t just showing up for ourselves, we are showing up for our colleagues, and, most importantly, our customers. They depend on us to be present in every way,” adds Roman.

Katie Roman, VP of Workforce Housing at Aries seated in the drivers’ seat of a car; she’s a young attractive blonde woman with striking blue eyes, wearing a bright red Aries collared shirt.

If you attend this convention, be on the lookout for Aries members, as they will be walking the show. See you there!

More on Aries

Aries manufactures prefabricated office buildings to be used as construction offices, portable school classrooms, mobile hospitals, workforce housing at oil pipeline sites, storage containers, and for disaster recovery relief, but we’d love to help you acquire your modular building for any purpose at all! We offer full turnkey solutions with exceptional customer service and robust financing options. We pride ourselves on combining product quality, design expertise, technical and financial innovation, and strategy that has already established us a first choice to customers.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-995-2971. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

World of Modular 2020 Annual Trade Show and Convention2020-03-18T19:47:47+00:00
3 04, 2017

Getting the RAM Report is as Easy as 1 2 3!

2019-02-08T20:42:47+00:00

Are you interested in receiving our quarterly newsletter, the RAM Report, but aren’t sure how to sign up for it? Well you’re in luck, because we’ve created a fun and informative video to teach you how to do just that!

This is the first in a new series of videos from Aries Building Systems, covering everything from modular inventory, to the modular construction process, to Aries company culture, and so much more! We hope you’ll subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up to date with all of our great video content!

ABOUT THE RAM REPORT

The RAM Report is the Aries’ family of companies’ quarterly newsletter designed to keep the public abreast of our goings-on around the globe! Some features include Employee Spotlight (our own VisionARIES), news stories from our modular housing division Aries Residence Suites, top blogs from the previous quarter, and so much more! Sign up today by following the instructions in the video or keep scrolling to sign up right from this blog post!

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Getting the RAM Report is as Easy as 1 2 3!2019-02-08T20:42:47+00:00
23 03, 2017

Modular Housing Could Be the Key to Combating Homelessness

2019-08-31T21:02:53+00:00

Sustainability is the goal of the future, and especially so when it comes to helping the homeless. Modular housing has many purposes and features, but modular buildings has one great benefit: modular units can be built ANYWHERE in a short amount of time.

Depending on where the need is, factory-built modular housing can be assembled and transported and be as temporary as a city would need it to be. Take the YMCA’s free to low-cost housing in London, which provides accommodations for 36 homeless in south London. It was so successful that the YMCA is developing another nearby to help bridge the gap in housing solutions in Cardiff. Also, while still in the prototype phase and coming up against a lot of commentary, ‘Homes for the Homeless’ is an architect’s Indiegogo campaign to offer modular shelters built off the side of buildings. In places where housing is at an extreme shortage and needs to be built on an extreme budget, architects are turning to modular to solve a housing crisis and offer a solution where even a ‘basic modular building’ is better than what most already have.

At one of Aries modular workforce camps, a light rain soaks into a wooden plank deck with rows of modular units serving as housing on either side.

In Hawaii, West Oahu, a non-profit was selected to help manage several modular properties that were built to house homeless families. Once in the prefabricated units, the non-profit will assign a case manager to assist the family with getting more assistance on finance management, work, health and more. Because many homeless are disabled, the modular units were compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

With almost 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco and the cost of $30,000 for one bed in a shelter creating a fiscal problem for the government, many developers are jumping on the chance to pitch the city for modular housing options. Prefabricated modular housing is not only cheaper for the city, but it’s also safer. Most shelters have communal kitchens and don’t have private bathrooms, and housing coalitions are becoming more open to using modular construction to cut housing costs and production.

Community First in Austin went a step further and created an entire village for the homeless using RV’s and prefabricated modular homes similar to Aries Residence Suites Man Camps. Austin spends around $40,000 per homeless person, and will ultimately save $3 million per year for taxpayers. In Charlotte, a similar community saved the city $1.8 million a year.

Seattle is seriously weighing the use of modular construction to help solve a homeless problem as the flexibility of prefabricated modular units are not only attractive (a complaint many local homeowners have for valuation problems on their residences) but they are fully compliant with zoning, ADA, and are configurable and re-configurable to adjust to need and demand.

With homelessness on the rise…these architecture students are presenting a prototype called ‘Hope of the Valley’ and are currently negotiating for land to develop prefabricated housing from scavenged goods. In LA County there are roughly 5,000 homeless and only 900 beds, so time is of the essence. The student aims to create modular and mobile shelters that can be mass-produced and pre-certified by the city and placed on under-utilized land. They also want a system that can be broken down when development picks up.

Aries Buildings is committed to being at the forefront of modular innovation, and that means providing affordable and time-saving solutions for all different kinds of communities. If you’d like to know more about our philanthropic work as a company, check out our page dedicated to the subject.

Modular Housing Could Be the Key to Combating Homelessness2019-08-31T21:02:53+00:00
4 03, 2017

WATCH: Workforce Housing in North Dakota – Aries Style

2019-02-18T14:47:50+00:00

Take a closer look at one of our man camps operated by our partner company, Aries Residence Suites, in Williston, North Dakota. Our workforce housing accommodations are a cut above the rest; featuring well-appointed cabins, recreation centers, community kitchens, and more. This video featuring The Aries Guy Trey will fill you in on all the details!

About Reliant Asset Management (RAM)

Reliant Asset Management provides premier modular space solutions to a variety of growing industries in the U.S. and Canada including the energy, education, healthcare, and government markets.
Through our multiple subsidiaries, including Aries Building Systems, we offer a comprehensive array of products and services that include design, manufacturing, installation, operation, and financing.
Learn more about our other subsidiary Advanced Modular Space and browse our online catalog of preowned modular buildings: http://www.advancedmodularspace.com
Aries Building Systems Contact: (888) 995-2971 or [email protected]

WATCH: Workforce Housing in North Dakota – Aries Style2019-02-18T14:47:50+00:00
27 01, 2017

How To: Lease a Modular Building with Aries

2019-02-18T16:10:10+00:00

Front view of Modular House

When you’re trying to keep the budget low and aren’t sure if you need a permanent building solution, leasing a modular building is the popular, flexible and cost-effective choice for school districts, companies and government institutions.

So what makes it so popular?

Our customers appreciate Aries Building Systems’ multiple leasing options, quick approval and competitive rates – and our pre-leased modular building options can provide even more savings!

Questions one should consider:

-How long do I need the unit?
-What are my needs versus my wants?
-What am I flexible on?
-What are my non-negotiables?

Have an idea? Once you’ve made the decision to utilize a modular building for your project, Reliant Asset Management has many leasing options available.

1. RAM has many payment options available to you that can be determined during a discussion with one of our representatives. Plans include monthly, quarterly, and annual payments.
2. Operating Lease – Customers who are looking for a long rental term can choose this plan, to only pay for the building while they use it. When you no longer have a need for the modular unit, you can purchase or return it. We will help you determine whether your best options are to lease or to buy!
3. Lease to purchase – Identical to most “lease-to-own” plans, customers must meet a certain financial criteria- and the end of the lease term, you will own the modular building.
4. Municipal Lease – A low interest financing alternative available to municipalities, schools and government.

When you lease with Aries, your package includes all of the same benefits that an outright purchase does- delivery, installation and site work costs- however; not all costs may be rolled into the leasing contract and some costs may need to be paid up front.

Want to move forward? Have any questions? Call Aries Building Systems at (888) 598 – 6689 or email at [email protected] for more information on finance options and how we can get the job done for you quick.

Download ‘How To Choose Your Next Modular Building” to see all the types of modular units that Aries can do for you and inspire your decision to lease a modular unit today!

How To: Lease a Modular Building with Aries2019-02-18T16:10:10+00:00
17 01, 2017

Reduce the Risk by choosing Aries Customizable Used Modular Inventory

2019-02-18T16:20:20+00:00

Front view of a modern five stories modular facility

Welcome to the first quarter of 2017. Perhaps you are a business that is contemplating expansion and in search of commercial space. Perhaps you are unsure of your schedule and financing, but you know that at the top of your list is how to have a customizable space on a tight budget.

And then the email comes across your desktop: custom modular units. In your mind, the thought of modular seems so…boxy. On one hand, the initial cost savings and time saved is a huge advantage. Not only is modular faster…but they are also more energy efficient. On the other hand, are the savings really worth sacrificing the beauty and customizability? And by going used, are you now sacrificing quality?

The short and quick answer? Aries Used Modular Building Inventory is cost-effective, efficient, and fast, but they are extremely and easily customizable.

As your business considers whether or not to expand or even relocate, the benefits to modular include the ability to relocate and adjust budget depending on usage. Aries also knows that the details matter: it isn’t enough to just have ‘a box’ where business is conducted. There are hundreds of floor plans to choose from, all flexible and at customer requests can be custom designed around your functional and aesthetical requests with cost in mind.

Just like any type of construction project; Aries spends time understanding your needs and work with architects and engineers to create the best possible solution to give you SPACE. We ensure all our projects meet the requirements of regulatory authorities.

Modular is currently being used in retail, commercial, hospitality, student housing, multi-family housing, military, and many other sectors where businesses are rethinking the time and budget involved in a traditional building process. As the economy shifts at a rapid pace, your business doesn’t have the time to think about how to budget for ten years on a traditional, site-built building that you have to find an end-use for. Buildings become aesthetically outdated, and you Class A building quickly falls into Class C space and your business is left thinking about what to do next.

With modular buildings, you no longer have to worry about those issues because they are relocatable, customizable, and as your business grows and changes, so can your modular units: they can grow, change, move, and more! Reduce the risk even more by opting to go with used inventory to speed up your return on investment.

Take advantage of Aries’ turnkey modular building services. Aries Building Systems has your business covered. From start to finish. Call Us Today (888) 995-2971 or Email: [email protected]

Reduce the Risk by choosing Aries Customizable Used Modular Inventory2019-02-18T16:20:20+00:00
13 12, 2016

Aries Provides You With The Information You Need

2019-02-08T21:26:20+00:00

Aries Building Systems News

Aries Buildings knows how important it is to stay informed about modular solutions. We also know that there are a lot of choices to modular building and that it’s stressful tracking down all the latest news and events surrounding modular.

The Aries RAM Report – published quarterly and emailed out to Aries insiders like yourself – provides industry-specific content sent straight to your inbox. The information is valuable and innovative, including news about prefabricated building and turnkey modular designs and structures, delivered quarterly.

The best part? You can sign up easy and for FREE. Receive information and downloadables like the Aries ‘Let’s Eat Out Guide’, designed as a restaurant menu guide for modular customers located at the Bakken Shale. The information in the RAM Report brings you updates about Aries Residence Suites’ workforce housing accommodations; blogs from different Aries sister sites; employee and customer spotlights; and surprises for RAM Report subscribers ONLY!

Click here to download Aries’ EXCLUSIVE workforce housing dining guide and sign up for updates from the RAM Report.

(Aries is also committed to not sharing your information, so know that when you sign up to receive our newsletter, we won’t share your email.)

Aries Provides You With The Information You Need2019-02-08T21:26:20+00:00
24 01, 2015

Man Camp Housing 101

2015-01-24T17:12:19+00:00

Man camp housing. Roughneck housing. Remote lodging. Sound like a summer camp for middle-aged men to you? We understand – and you’re not all wrong. Aries Building Systems is delivering some man camp 101 to fill in the cracks. With the oil field industry booming, oil extraction companies are left with a lot of workers needing a lot of onsite housing. This is where we come in. Aries is a leading provider of workforce housing for oil field camps full of hard-working guys looking for a home away from home. The housing that Aries Building Systems offers is comprehensive and includes man camp management and numerous amenities. Your average man camp comes stocked with spacious single or shared living quarters, laundry management, recreational facilities, a gym, and a top-notch kitchen serving up home-cooked meals every night. So, in a way, it’s not far off from a grown-up summer camp… if summer camp cleaned your sheets and provided flat screen TVs, that is.

Watch it on youtube.

Man Camp Housing 1012015-01-24T17:12:19+00:00
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