Farnborough International Airshow Case Study

Qdos Event Hire has been an official supplier to the Farnborough International Airshow since its inception in 2010. We provide more than 70 units from our extensive range of temporary accommodation, welfare and toilet facilities that are utilised by exhibitors, visitors and suppliers. The week-long trade exhibition and public air show for the aerospace and defence industries. This year’s event took place 22nd – 26th  July and welcomed over 100,000 visitors, 1500 exhibitors from over 60 countries, 90 civil and military aircraft, over 390 civil, military and space delegations at its sold-out 2024 instalment.

The Qdos team begin delivering units from the end of May onwards with a dedicated project manager there to oversee install, ensuring production and hospitality suites were ready for when the organisers and suppliers to the event required them.

This year we installed a combination of cabins and our modular buildings, they ranged in size from 10’ X 8’ right the way up to 32’ x 10’ next generation cabins. These were supplied in a variety of configurations, including splits, links and double stacked units with staircases and glass frontage.

Additional cabins were supplied for use as:

  • security offices
  • gatehouses
  • pilots briefing offices
  • ticket offices
  • accreditation facilities
  • contractors’ offices
  • reception areas
  • offices for customs and immigration
  • traffic and police control
  • rest rooms
  • fire station base
  • lost children’s office
  • stores

In addition, we supplied jackleg toilets to the event from our extensive range, including: a combination of ladies and gents, urinals, ladies only, gents only and disabled units. We also upgraded a number of the toilet facilities to our newer style jackleg toilets and luxury mobile vacuum toilets to create a better first impression on arrival at various gates.

Throughout the installation, open days of the event and derig, a dedicated project manager provided a single point of contact to ensure a personal, fast and efficient service was delivered to this large scale, multi-faceted and complex project.