Prefabricated Steel Tower Applications
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Panel Built observation towers and platforms can frequently be found outside military bases and government facilities. Although, observation platforms can look very different from project to project, depending on their primary function. In a lot of cases, the observation towers are built to provide a better view over a landscape, including nature preserves, national parks, and other private entities. These towers will likely look more like one of Panel Built's exterior mezzanine, as they will generally require a large deck, safety railing, and no enclosure on top. This allows many people to safely get a good view while still being open to the environment.
However, there are other observation tower projects where the structure functions much more like a guard tower. In this case, these towers will hold an officer or guard to observe over property or facility to ensure all is safe and secure. Because of the great variance from project to project, Panel Built always makes sure to ask our customers questions about their observation tower projects. This way, we have a good understanding of the structure's purpose and ensure we are quoting precisely what the customer is looking for.
Panel Built Rappel Towers are a break from the mold from our previously mentioned tower projects. First, the main purpose of the tower is not to provide a clear line of sight from the top of the tower. Second, this is the only one so far that is designed to have people hop off the side. The Panel Built rappel towers, as you may have guessed, are designed to help military personnel safely practice rappelling and other training exercises.
Although these towers are highly specialized, they can still be custom designed to incorporate a variety of other training exercises, including climbing walls and helicopter fast ropes training. Generally, Rappel Towers are used for by the United States military for the training of their soldiers; however, Panel Built Rappel Training Towers has gotten interest from college and high school ROTC programs as well as private challenge course companies.
Like rappel towers, training towers are designed to help train military and police personnel for specific tactical exercises. Unlike a rappel tower, a tactical training tower will often be entirely enclosed to simulate better personnel moving through and clearing a building. Like the rappel towers, Panel Built Tactical Training Towers can be fully customizable as far as the layout and dimensions. However, particular projects like these can require some very unique features.
Frequently, these tactical training towers and other similar structures are where Panel Built gets to stretch our creative wings. We've designed and fabricated custom features for these structures to best fit our customers' tower needs. Panel Built has incorporated custom features including confined space training, sniper/shooter windows for different firing positions, ladders, roof hatches, and more to ensure a complete training solution.
Like with all of our projects, Panel Built's mission is "To Solve Our Customers' Space Needs With Excellence And Great Customer Service," which is what we aim to do on each tower that we deliver. Since 1995, Panel Built has had the honor of delivering prefabricated tower systems to military bases across the United States, working with all branches of the US armed forces.
If you have any questions about our prefabricated tower systems or would like to know if we can adapt our approach to fit your tower needs, give us a call at 8006363873, send us an email to info@panelbuilt.com, or just let us know in our LiveChat feature in the bottom-right of the page. We're always happy to answer any questions or concerns that you may have.