Deploy the shelter. Keep working.

It is a transportable, environmentally-hardened enclosure that carries a controlled, protected environment to the field and holds it there, so a technical payload — electronics, communications, a command team, a medical module, a workshop — can work where the open field would defeat it. Physically it is a sealed, insulated shell (usually on an ISO frame so it transports and handles like a container), given environmental systems (HVAC, power, lighting), hardening to the threats it will face (EMI/RFI, NBC, ballistic, shock), and a fit-out (racks, consoles, cabling, mast and antenna provisions) engineered for the specific payload. The key idea is that the shelter is the general product: the same well-built shell can be a command post, a comms or radar-support shelter, a medical module or a workshop, because what changes between them is mostly the fit-out and the hardening, not the fundamental box. That is why we treat it as a product line in its own right — get the shell, the environment and the integration right, and it will carry whatever the mission puts inside it.

All of those, each added where the task actually needs it rather than by default. Climate is the baseline: a sealed, insulated shell with HVAC sized to hold the interior steady across an ambient range to about ±50°C, with humidity control — so the equipment sees a stable machine-room environment. EMI/RFI shielding turns the shell into a continuous screened enclosure, both to protect sensitive electronics from outside interference and to control the shelter’s own emissions — it has to be continuous (walls, door, filters, penetrations) to work, which is an engineering discipline in itself. NBC protection adds a filtration and over-pressure system: filtered air is pushed in to hold the inside at a slight positive pressure so contaminated air cannot leak in, protecting the crew. A ballistic option adds an armour layer to the shell (drawing on our ballistic-protection work), and shock and vibration isolation protects racked equipment on the move and on rough ground. Each is specified to the real threat, because every one of them adds weight, cost and complexity, and the honest engineering is to add exactly what the requirement calls for and prove it.

We build the shelter and integrate the payload — and we are clear about the split. What Neometrix engineers and fabricates is the shell (frame, insulated panels, ISO castings, sealing, blast/ballistic option), the environmental systems (HVAC, power distribution and conditioning, lighting, blackout), the hardening (EMI/RFI shielding, NBC over-pressure and filtration, shock isolation), and the fit-out and integration (racks, consoles, cabling and trunking, mast, antenna and cable-entry provisions, access and layout). What is normally bought-in or government-furnished is the mission payload itself — the radios and communications, the computing, the sensors or any specialist electronics — which we provision for and integrate (power, cooling, shielding, mounting, cable entries) but do not manufacture. This plays to strength: the hard structural, environmental and integration engineering is our own, and the mission electronics are best supplied by their specialist makers or furnished by the customer. To be plain about status: this is offered engineered-to-order; no specific delivered shelter is claimed on this page.

Like a container, by design. Building the shelter on an ISO frame with standard corner castings means it can be handled and transported by the whole existing logistics chain — road on a trailer, rail on a flat wagon, sea as deck or hold cargo, and air where the size and weight allow — and lifted by forklift, crane or, for lighter units, heli-slung. On site, deployment is deliberately quick: the shelter is set down, levelled on its corner jacks on whatever ground is available, connected to power (external mains or a generator), its HVAC brought up to stabilise the interior, and the payload powered and checked — after which it is operating. For vehicle-mounted or expandable variants, the shell travels on its platform and, where fitted, expands to give more working volume once static. The whole point is that a complex, protected technical capability can be picked up, moved and re-established somewhere else in hours, not rebuilt from scratch.

Those are specific command-post vehicles; this is the general shelter product they are built on. Our vehicle-mounted expandable battery command post is a complete, specific system — a particular command post, with its C2 fit-out, mounted on a particular truck; and our command-and-control carrier modification is a specific vehicle converted into a mobile command post. Both are realisations aimed at one role on one platform. This page is one level up: the transportable hardened shelter itself — the shell, the environmental systems, the hardening and the fit-out framework — from which a command post is just one possible fit-out, alongside a technical shelter, a comms shelter, a medical module, a workshop or a store. So if you need a defined command-post product, those pages describe delivered-style examples; if you need a shelter engineered around your payload, transport mode and protection level — command post or otherwise — this is the capability, and we will scope it to exactly what the requirement asks for.

Yes — that is precisely what the sealing, insulation and environmental sizing are for, and it is a context we know well. In a high-altitude, extreme-cold or extreme-heat deployment, the shelter’s job is to hold a stable, survivable, working interior regardless of what the outside is doing: the insulated, sealed shell keeps heat in or out, the HVAC is sized to the worst-case ambient (deep cold as much as high heat), and heating, humidity and, where needed, ventilation for occupancy are engineered for the altitude and the crew. Neometrix already delivers hardened, environmentally-controlled capability into exactly these conditions elsewhere in its work — high-altitude, remote, logistically hard locations — so the design approach (sealing, insulation, worst-case HVAC and power, condensation and cold-start management, robust transport) is well established. The shelter is specified to the actual site: the temperature band, the altitude, the wind and snow loads, and the power available all feed the design, so what is delivered is sized for where it will really stand, not a nominal room.