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NMX-LAS-40 · TURNKEY & ENGINEERED TO ORDER — LIVING ACCOMMODATION SHELTER

House the force, faster.

Name: Living Accommodation Shelter
Brand: Neometrix

The barracks that go up fast, and last. The armed forces have to be housed — at stations at scale, and above all at high-altitude and forward posts where conventional wet masonry is slow, weather-limited and hard to build. A living accommodation shelter is a real, permanent-quality building that goes up dry and fast: a cold-formed light-gauge steel frame (LGSF), or a prefabricated insulated-panel shelter, clad, insulated and fitted out into single- or double-storey quarters for officers, JCOs and other ranks. We do it turnkey — design, supply and construct — the steel frame, the insulated envelope, the fit-out and the erection on site; the panels and steel sections are bought in. It houses people, not equipment — the living building alongside the technical shelter. Engineered to order — no specific delivered project is claimed.

Enquire — living accommodation shelter Capability sheet (PDF)

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — a clean modern double-storey military accommodation block built of light-gauge steel frame with insulated panel cladding, an external staircase and walkway and rows of windows, hills behind, no text, no insignia and no people

Fig · 01 A double-storey living accommodation block — light-gauge steel frame and insulated panel, a real building built fast — illustrative, not a delivered installation

Houses

the forceofficers / JCOs / OR

Built

LGSF + paneldry, fast, durable

Storeys

single & double10 to 100+ men

Speed

fastvs slow wet masonry

Turnkey

to orderdesign + supply + construct

ISO 9001 / 14001 Turnkey & engineered to order Shelters & structures Plains to high-altitude Noida · India

Overview

The force has to be housed — fast.

Soldiers have to live somewhere, and the demand for accommodation is constant — at military stations at scale, and most acutely at high-altitude and forward posts, where the building season is short and every day matters. The problem is that conventional wet masonry is slow: it needs curing, it is weather-limited, and in remote and high-altitude areas the logistics of sand, cement, water and skilled labour make it painfully hard. So the accommodation is built instead by fast, dry methods — a light-gauge steel frame or prefabricated insulated panels — that go up in a fraction of the time, in almost any terrain, and give a warm, durable, permanent-quality building at the end of it.

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — a light-gauge steel frame under construction: a cold-formed galvanised steel-frame structure of vertical studs, floor joists and roof trusses for a two-storey building, part-clad with insulated wall panels, on a construction site, no text and no people

Fig · 02 The light-gauge steel frame — cold-formed galvanised studs, joists and trusses, erected dry and clad with insulated panels — illustrative, not a delivered installation

A real building, built dry. Light-gauge steel frame (LGSF) is the core method: a cold-formed galvanised-steel frame — studs, joists and roof trusses — erected dry and bolted or screwed together, then sheathed, insulated and clad. It is dimensionally accurate, strong, non-combustible, termite-proof and low-maintenance, and it carries a proper single- or double-storey building — not a temporary hut, but permanent-quality quarters that simply happen to go up fast.

Or prefab panels, where you need it quickest. Where the need is a rapid, warm shelter rather than a multi-storey block, prefabricated insulated-panel construction — PUF (polyurethane-foam) sandwich panels on a frame — gives a quick, weathertight, well-insulated hut, ideal for cold and high-altitude sites. Both methods share the same virtue: they are manufactured, transported and assembled, so the slow, wet, weather-dependent part of building is taken off the site.

Turnkey — design, supply, construct. Most requirements are ‘supply and construction’ — the customer wants a finished, habitable building, not a kit — and that is how we work: we design it to the number of men, the storeys, the site and the code; we supply the steel frame, the envelope and the fittings; and we construct it on site, fully fitted out with partitions, electrical, plumbing and finishes. One responsibility, from the frame to the handover.

The soldier does not care whether the wall is masonry or steel frame — only that the building is warm, dry, solid and there on time. Light-gauge steel and panel let us give a permanent-quality building, fast, where slow wet construction simply will not do.

Housed, Fast, Anywhere

Where masonry can’t keep up

Accommodation is needed at scale, and hardest to build at high-altitude and forward posts where masonry is slow and weather-limited. LGSF and prefab panel go up dry and fast, in almost any terrain — a building, on time.

A Real Building, Not a Tent

Permanent quality, dry-built

A cold-formed steel-frame or insulated-panel building — strong, warm, durable, non-combustible — carrying single- or double-storey quarters for 10 to 100+ men. Permanent quality that simply goes up fast.

Turnkey: Design, Supply, Construct

One responsibility

Most requirements are supply-and-construction, and that is how we deliver: design to the men, storeys, site and code; supply the frame, envelope and fittings; construct and fit out on site — frame to handover.

Architecture

Frame, envelope, fit-out.

The schematic shows the need — house the force where masonry is slow, by building dry and fast — and the building that answers it. The detail panel covers what it is, and how it differs from the technical shelter.

FIG · 03LAS ARCHITECTURE · FRAME / ENVELOPE / FIT-OUT · LGSF + PREFAB PANEL · TURNKEY, TO THE CODE

Fig · 03 Build the force’s quarters dry and fast — a light-gauge steel frame, an insulated envelope and a full fit-out, designed, supplied and constructed turnkey on site

Arc · 01

The Light-Gauge Steel Frame

A cold-formed galvanised-steel frame — studs, floor joists and roof trusses — erected dry to carry a single- or double-storey building; accurate, strong, non-combustible and low-maintenance.

Arc · 02

The Building Envelope

Insulated panels or cladding (PUF / rock-wool sandwich), roofing, doors and windows — a warm, weathertight envelope, sized to the climate, from the plains to high-altitude cold.

Arc · 03

The Fit-Out

Internal partitions, electrical, plumbing and sanitary, and finishes — everything that turns a structure into a habitable building: rooms, ablutions, lighting, power and a floor you can live on.

Arc · 04

Design, Supply & Construct

The whole thing turnkey: engineered to the men, the storeys, the site and the code, supplied and erected on site fast — one responsibility from frame to handover.

Have a living-accommodation, barrack or LGSF / prefab-shelter requirement? Send the men, the storeys and the site — a clause-by-clause compliance matrix within two working days · [email protected]

Send tender spec

Specifications

Reference block, built to the posting.

The parameters below describe a reference accommodation block. The number of men, the storeys, the construction method, the envelope and the fit-out all follow from the establishment to be housed and the site — a plains station, or a high-altitude forward post.

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — a fitted barrack accommodation room interior: a clean bright room with two rows of neat metal bunk beds, steel lockers along the wall, windows and a smooth finished floor and lit ceiling, empty with no people, no text and no insignia

Fig · 04 A fitted barrack-room interior — bunks, lockers, services and finishes: a fully habitable building, not a shell — illustrative, not a delivered installation

Where accommodation goes wrong

In the speed, the climate and the finish, not the walls. Conventional masonry that is too slow leaves the force unhoused through a whole building season; an envelope that is under-insulated is unlivable at altitude; a building that is poorly fitted-out is a shell, not quarters; and a structure not designed to the snow, wind and seismic loads of its site is unsafe where it matters most.

That is why the method is chosen for speed and site (LGSF or panel, dry-built), the envelope is insulated to the climate, the building is fully fitted-out to be genuinely habitable, and the structure is engineered to the site’s loads and the code. The measure of an accommodation block is simple: the force is housed, warm and dry, on time.

Full specification — expand

System	Living accommodation shelter — turnkey design, supply & construction of officer / JCO / OR living quarters: light-gauge steel frame or prefab insulated-panel, envelope, full fit-out, erected on site
Method	Light-gauge steel frame (LGSF, cold-formed galvanised) for multi-storey permanent-quality quarters, or prefabricated PUF-panel shelters/huts for rapid single-storey provision
Structure	Cold-formed galvanised steel frame — studs, joists, trusses; single- or double-storey; engineered to the site’s snow, wind & seismic loads and the code
Envelope	Insulated panels / cladding (PUF or rock-wool sandwich), roofing, doors & windows — warm & weathertight, sized to the climate (plains to high-altitude cold)
Fit-Out	Partitions, electrical, plumbing & sanitary, flooring & finishes — a fully habitable building
Configuration	Officer / JCO / OR living shelters; single or double storey (D/S); 10, 12, 20, 40, 100+ men
Delivery	Turnkey — design, supply & construction on site; fast, dry erection
Sites	Plains military stations at scale, and high-altitude / forward posts with a short building season
Sourcing	The PUF / insulated sandwich panels and the cold-formed steel sections are bought-in specialist items; Neometrix designs, supplies, constructs & fits out the building — frame, envelope, fit-out & erection
Status	Turnkey / engineered to order · sized to the men, storeys, site & code · quoted across living-shelter & accommodation requirements · no specific delivered project is claimed on this page

PDF · 1 page

Living Accommodation Shelter — Capability Sheet

Tender Response

Send your men, storeys & site — compliance matrix in two working days

Variants

One capability, the quarters you need.

Tenders call it a living shelter, an OR / officer living shelter, an LGSF structure or a prefab PUF-panel shelter. The principle — house the force in a real building, built dry and fast, turnkey — is common; the block is configured to the establishment and the site.

Var · 01

LGSF Double-Storey Living Shelter

A permanent-quality double-storey block in cold-formed steel frame, for officers, JCOs or other ranks — the accommodation workhorse.

Var · 02

Prefab PUF-Panel Shelter / Hut

A rapid, warm, single-storey insulated-panel shelter — quickest to erect, ideal for cold and remote sites.

Var · 03

High-Altitude / Forward-Post Accommodation

Quarters engineered for a short building season and severe climate — dry-built, heavily insulated, all-terrain.

Var · 04

Turnkey Station Accommodation Block

A barrack block at scale (40–100+ men) with full ablutions and services, designed, supplied and constructed as one.

Applications

Where it houses them.

Wherever the force has to be housed — at scale, at altitude, or in a hurry.

A · 01Officer / JCO / OR living accommodation

A · 02High-altitude & forward-post housing

A · 03Rapid & temporary accommodation

A · 04Military-station barrack blocks at scale

A · 05Disaster-relief & transit accommodation

A · 06Site, camp & project accommodation

FAQ

Common questions.

Plain-language answers from the engineering team.

Q · 01 What is a living accommodation shelter, and why light-gauge steel or prefab?

It is a building that houses troops — living quarters for officers, JCOs and other ranks — built by fast, dry methods instead of slow wet masonry. The reason for the method is practical. Armed forces need a great deal of accommodation, and they need it in places that are hard to build in: at scale on military stations, and above all at high-altitude and forward posts where the building season is only a few months, the weather is severe, and the logistics of cement, sand, water and skilled masons are punishing. Conventional masonry is slow — it needs curing time, it stops in bad weather, and it depends on wet materials and skilled site labour. Light-gauge steel frame (LGSF) and prefabricated insulated panels avoid all of that: the building is largely manufactured, transported and assembled dry, so it goes up in a fraction of the time, in almost any terrain and season, and gives a permanent-quality, warm, durable building at the end. It is not a compromise for a tent — it is a real building, built the fast way.

Q · 02 How is this different from your field technical shelter?

They are different products for different jobs. Our field technical shelter is a transportable, environmentally-hardened container-based shelter that houses equipment — a command post, communications or mission systems — with EMI, NBC and ballistic options; it is a piece of deployable technical infrastructure that protects kit and the people operating it. This living accommodation shelter is a building that houses people — a single- or double-storey barrack of light-gauge steel frame or insulated panel, with rooms, ablutions and services, where soldiers live. One is a hardened box for equipment, transported to site; the other is a permanent-quality building for people, constructed on site. They sit side by side on a base — the technical shelter you work in, and the accommodation you live in — and we build both, which is why they are cross-linked here; but they are engineered, and quoted, as distinct things.

Q · 03 What is Light Gauge Steel Frame (LGSF)?

LGSF is a way of constructing a building from cold-formed, galvanised light-gauge steel sections instead of masonry or heavy structural steel. Thin (typically ~1–2 mm) galvanised steel strip is roll-formed into C- and U-shaped studs, joists and tracks, and these are assembled — often from precise, factory-made panels — into the walls, floors and roof of the building, then sheathed, insulated and clad. Its advantages for accommodation are exactly what a remote posting needs: it is light (easy to transport to a forward site), fast and dry to erect (no curing, works through bad weather), dimensionally accurate (factory-made), strong and good in seismic zones, non-combustible, termite- and rot-proof, and low-maintenance and durable. It carries proper multi-storey buildings, so it is used for permanent-quality double-storey quarters, not just temporary huts. It is, in short, the modern way to put up a real building quickly.

Q · 04 What do you build, and what is bought-in?

We deliver the building turnkey — design, supply and construction — and integrate the specialist products into it. What Neometrix designs, supplies, constructs and fits out is the whole building: the light-gauge steel frame (or the prefab structure), the building envelope (insulated cladding, roofing, doors, windows), the internal fit-out (partitions, electrical, plumbing and sanitary, flooring and finishes), the foundation interface, and the erection on site — engineered to the number of men, the storeys, the site’s loads and the code, and handed over habitable. What is bought-in specialist is the manufactured product that goes into it: the PUF or insulated sandwich panels, the cold-formed steel sections, and the commodity sanitaryware, electrical fittings and services equipment. This is squarely our competence — it is the same fabrication, structures, shelter and turnkey-construction engineering behind our shelter and deployable-infrastructure work. So the specialist panels and sections come from the specialists, and the engineered, constructed, habitable building is ours. Offered turnkey and engineered-to-order; no specific delivered project is claimed on this page.

Q · 05 Can it be built at high altitude or in forward areas?

Yes — that is one of the strongest reasons to use it. High-altitude and forward posts are exactly where conventional construction struggles: the building season is short, temperatures are extreme, and getting wet materials and skilled masons to site is slow and expensive. A dry, prefabricated method turns that around. The steel frame or the panels are manufactured and quality-controlled off-site, transported (they are light and pack efficiently), and assembled quickly in the short window the weather allows, without curing or wet trades. The envelope is insulated to the climate, so the building is genuinely warm and livable at altitude, and the structure is engineered to the site’s snow, wind and seismic loads. The result is that a post can be properly housed in one season rather than several — which, at a forward location, is exactly the point.

Q · 06 Single or double storey, and how many men?

Both, and to whatever establishment the requirement sets. The buildings are configured as single- or double-storey (D/S) blocks, and sized to the number of occupants — requirements run from small 10- and 12-man shelters, through 20- and 40-man blocks, to 100+ man barracks — and are specified separately for officers, JCOs and other ranks, which differ in room layout, occupancy and ablution provision. Double-storey is common because it doubles the accommodation on the same footprint, which matters where usable, serviced land is limited. We engineer the block to the establishment: the number and type of rooms, the ablutions and services, the circulation and stairs, and the structure for the storeys and the site. The point of doing it in steel frame or panel is that none of that flexibility costs you time — a bigger or taller block is still a fast, dry build.

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The deployable-infrastructure line from Neometrix.

The technical shelter, the deployable container and the forward-post power system alongside it — engineered at our Noida facility.

↗ Technical Shelter

Field Technical Shelter

The hardened shelter that houses equipment — the technical sibling to living accommodation.

↗ Deployable

Air-Droppable Container

Deployable containerised infrastructure — the transport-and-resupply member of the line.

↗ Forward-Post Power

Fuel-Cell Hybrid Power System

Silent power for the forward post — the power for the accommodation you build.

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ISO 9001 / 14001 ENGINEERED TO ORDER — LIVING ACCOMMODATION SHELTER LIGHT-GAUGE STEEL FRAME · PREFAB PUF PANEL · SINGLE & DOUBLE STOREY · TURNKEY DESIGN · SUPPLY · CONSTRUCT ENGINEERED IN NOIDA · INDIA

House the force, faster.

The force has to be housed — fast.

Where masonry can’t keep up

Permanent quality, dry-built

One responsibility

Frame, envelope, fit-out.

The Light-Gauge Steel Frame

The Building Envelope

The Fit-Out

Design, Supply & Construct

Reference block, built to the posting.

Where accommodation goes wrong

One capability, the quarters you need.

LGSF Double-Storey Living Shelter

Prefab PUF-Panel Shelter / Hut

High-Altitude / Forward-Post Accommodation

Turnkey Station Accommodation Block

Where it houses them.

Common questions.

The deployable-infrastructure line from Neometrix.

Field Technical Shelter

Air-Droppable Container

Fuel-Cell Hybrid Power System

Send the men
and the site.

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House the force, faster.

The force has to be housed — fast.

Where masonry can’t keep up

Permanent quality, dry-built

One responsibility

Frame, envelope, fit-out.

The Light-Gauge Steel Frame

The Building Envelope

The Fit-Out

Design, Supply & Construct

Reference block, built to the posting.

Where accommodation goes wrong

One capability, the quarters you need.

LGSF Double-Storey Living Shelter

Prefab PUF-Panel Shelter / Hut

High-Altitude / Forward-Post Accommodation

Turnkey Station Accommodation Block

Where it houses them.

Common questions.

The deployable-infrastructure line from Neometrix.

Field Technical Shelter

Air-Droppable Container

Fuel-Cell Hybrid Power System

Send the menand the site.

Similar Products

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and the site.