Evolution Dome is the UK’s leading inflatable structure hire and sales company. Catering to a corporate events market, we specialise in offering inflatable structures for conferences, exhibitions, product launches and brand awareness campaigns. Our huge range comprises of small indoor structures, ideal for meetings, seminars and pop-up events, as well as massive 780sqm structures for outdoor events. The outdoor range includes domes, cubes and Airoof stage covers. All structures can be fully branded, and our in-house design team is on hand to help create bespoke structures which can be made to order. Evolution Dome has recently opened offices in Belgium and Australia, allowing them to offer their high class, inflatable structures to a worldwide market.
Here at Evolution Dome we have taken significant steps over the last 12 months to become a more sustainable business and reduce our environmental impact – all without negatively impacting our service or customer support. Here are just a few highlights we thought you’d be interested to know:
We are very proud of our inflatable structures, and the beauty of them is that they can be re-used again and again, making them an attractive proposition when it comes those looking to source event materials that have a longer-life than many trade stands and feature areas that are built from single-use materials that live only the length of the event.
Our structures have a lifespan of around seven years and their flexibility has meant that a number of organisers have been able to use the structures both inside and outdoors. In recent years, we have seen a number of event organisers ingeniously use our structures to build event structures in locations that would have never been considered “event ready” in an effort to reduce the carbon emissions of their attendees by bringing the event to them.
And they keep going! Once our domes are no longer fit-for-purpose, we recycle the material to be used as storage bags and transport carriers for the new domes.
Once deflated, our structures are tiny!
For example, did you know a 10m Panoramic dome can be reduced down to 80cm x 80cm x 60cm package weighing only 55kg meaning there is less to transport? With only lights and other materials, we can fit an entire conference venue fit for 60 people in a Citroen Berlingo van! We recently delivered a 24m dome to be used as a breakout space for Greene King in at ExCeL London for over 300 people, with lighting and doors – all with just a 3.5 tonne van and trailer!
Our aim is always to take the smallest vehicles to make the footprint as low as possible.
At Evolution Dome HQ, we make sure we favour ‘green’ vehicles, bulk buy our own products to reduce the amount of deliveries we receive recognising that even the smallest of changes can make an impact.
One of the biggest challenges we face is the need for a generator to inflate the structures throughout an event at outdoor locations where no mains supply is available (or for back up in case of power failures). For many years we have been doing this using a diesel generator and whilst we have been looking into other options for a number of years, we are now hoping in time we can use hybrid generators. We want to do all we can to reduce the air quality across our cities.
We are always evolving and improving the things we do when it comes to sustainable processes and we endeavour to work with other like-minded companies and venues.
The energy consumption and efficiency of new products is always taken into account when purchasing – and it’s something we will scrutinise going forward.
To add to this, after use all overlay carpet is stored in house, collected and recycled so there is no wastage on our side.
