Built Around the Real Site
In a planned remodel, those utilities can be arranged in advance. In a flooded town, they may not exist. “If I have to plug that trailer in in the middle of a town that just got flooded, it’s not going to work. The infrastructure is just not there.” That is why the company works to reduce the number of dependencies required before a unit can operate. “You might not have water in your county because of the disaster,
but I can ship water in from the next county.”
Sperling puts the idea plainly: “We can’t fix the hurricane, but I can fix that town when it gets tore up like that. We can bring resources in.” U.S. Mobile Solutions provides mobile kitchens, restrooms, laundry, refrigeration and other temporary operational spaces, but Sperling does not approach each job as a standard rental.
“I need to know what your goal is. What are you trying to do?”
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