Soft Deployment

In a soft deployment, the shelter units are deployed at an existing facility that is designed to handle large crowds, such as a sports arena or a convention center. In this scenario, the shelter units provide living/sleeping quarters for people while the adjacent facility is used for power, sanitation facilities, and food services. This option allows an extremely rapid response to a disaster event since only the shelter units are deployed and the existing host facility provides the additional support. Depending on the host facility and the type of disaster being addressed, it might make sense to deploy shelters inside that complex. The Evolve collapses into a small enough package for storage and transport that it will fit through most double doorways. This would allow a possible deployment site, such as the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, to shield shelters from extreme weather conditions while directly powering and providing its own climate control systems to heat or cool the shelters.