Bulk Salt & Sand Storage Buildings
Left uncovered, road salt clumps, washes away and corrodes everything it touches, and a depleted stockpile come the first freeze is a road safety problem, not just an operational one.
Rock salt, grit and sand all need to stay dry, contained and ready to spread the moment the temperature drops. Rain leaches salt away and turns a loose, spreadable stockpile into a solid mass, while airborne chlorides eat through steel-framed buildings from the inside out. A purpose-built store keeps your winter maintenance materials dry, protects the structure from corrosion, and guarantees your gritters are loaded and out when the network needs them.
Eurodome designs and builds storage made for exactly this: engineered timber dome barns with no steel frame to corrode, large clear-span fabric buildings, and covered bays for separating salt, grit and sand. Wide, open floors give loading shovels room to work, and every structure is engineered to your site, your capacity and your gritting programme, as a permanent or relocatable build.
Eurodome designs, manufactures and installs buildings across the UK and Ireland, with a team that brings over 40 years of specialist engineering experience. From our base in Stirling, we've delivered more than 180 structures for highway authorities, councils and contractors, and many of the earliest salt barns we built decades ago are still in active service today.
We handle every stage in-house: design, engineering, planning support, manufacture, groundworks, wall installation, roof build and electrics. One accountable team takes your project from first enquiry to handover, with no gaps between separate contractors.
And we hold the accreditations that matter on public-sector and highway framework tenders: CHAS, Constructionline Gold and IPAF, backed by ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for quality and environmental management. It's the kind of track record that gets us through procurement and onto operational depots.
The team behind 180+ salt stores
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180+
Structures installed in the UK
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40+
Years of industry experience
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Industry accreditations
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10–50m
Sizes we design and build
Whatever you store for winter, we build for it
Whatever you fly, we can build the right hangar for it.
Clear-span bulk buildings
Large fabric buildings and dome barns that shelter big stockpiles under one roof, keeping grain, biomass, salt and minerals dry and easy to work.
Clear-span fabric buildings
Large fabric buildings from 7.3m to 64m wide and any length, giving high-capacity cover for salt, grit and sand with generous height for tipping and stockpiling.
Covered salt & grit bays
Fabric roofs on Legato-block or push walls, creating separate bays that keep salt, grit and sand apart, dry and free from cross-contamination.
White salt & saturator stores
Integral white salt compounds and space for saturators and brine tanks, built into the main structure to keep your full winter operation under one roof.
The benefits of a purpose-built salt store
Covering salt and sand isn't just about keeping the rain off. It protects material you've already paid for, keeps your gritters running through the worst of the weather, and keeps you compliant with the run-off conditions on your environmental permit. Here's what a Eurodome building means in practice.
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Rain leaches salt away and turns a loose stockpile into a solid block that has to be broken up before it can be spread. Keeping material under cover protects both quality and quantity, so every tonne you buy is a tonne you can actually put on the road.
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Stored salt creates one of the most aggressive environments there is for structural steel. Our dome timber barns have no steel frame to corrode, so they sidestep the rust and deterioration that condemns conventional salt buildings, and last for decades.
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A covered, well-organised store means your gritters are loaded and out the moment the temperature drops. No frozen stockpiles, no digging out solid salt, no delays when the network is depending on you.
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Multi-bay layouts and block walls let you keep rock salt, white salt, grit and sand apart. That protects each material to spec and keeps your winter operation organised and quick to load.
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Covering material and containing salt-laden run-off is increasingly a condition of environmental permits. A covered store keeps leachate contained, so you can demonstrate compliance to the regulator without disrupting the operation.
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Our structures install in a fraction of the time of a concrete or steel build, with little or no groundworks. And because many can be relocated or extended, the building can follow your operation rather than tie you to one spot.
Whatever you store for winter, we build for it
Dome barns, fabric buildings and covered bays: take a look at the salt and sand storage we design and build. Every one is engineered to its site and its stockpile.
Every Eurodome building is engineered to last and built around your operation. From the frame to the cover on top, the same team designs, manufactures and installs it, so nothing is left to chance. Here are the features that go into every one.
Bulk salt & sand storage designed, manufactured & installed
No frame to corrode
Salt is brutal on structural steel. Our dome timber barns have no steel frame to rust, and where we do use steel it is hot-dip galvanised after welding and coating, three times thicker and ten times harder than inline galvanising. Either way, the structure stands up to a chloride-rich environment for decades.
Long-lasting protection
The fabric cover is built to go the distance. Our Elite fabrics carry a 25-year warranty and standard fabrics 20 years, both engineered to resist UV, weather and daily wear. When the cover eventually reaches the end of its life, we can re-sheet the existing frame rather than replace the whole building.
Column-free interiors
Our clear-span design puts no columns in the way, with fabric buildings from 7.3m up to 64m wide and dome diameters up to 50m. That gives loading shovels the full floor to work, with the height to build a proper stockpile and load gritters quickly even at full stock.
Accredited and certified
Eurodome holds the accreditations that count on public-sector and highway sites: CHAS, Constructionline Gold and IPAF for safety and procurement, plus ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for quality and environmental management. It's clear proof every building is built to recognised standards.
Water and run-off managed
For open bay storage, we manage water as carefully as the salt. Fabric roofs on Legato-block or push walls, with skirts and gutters that channel rainwater away, keep stockpiles dry and help contain salt-laden run-off, so material stays usable and your site stays compliant.
Custom sizing and capacity
No two depots are the same, so we size every structure around your stockpile and your fleet. Capacity, height, span, doors and side openings are all designed around what you store and how you load it, with customisable accessories such as chimneys, windows and access points.
Who we work with
Eurodome builds for the operations that keep the roads running through winter, from national highway authorities and county councils to maintenance contractors and framework partners. The same engineering, accreditations and single-team service that get us onto their sites are exactly what your operation needs to keep its salt dry and its gritters loaded.
Let's talk about your salt or sand store
Speak to one of our experts about your operation. Tell us how much salt or sand you store, how you load it and the site you've got, and we'll recommend the right barn, building or bays. Call, email or fill out the form and we'll be straight back to you.
Lucas Hooijenga, Managing Director
lucas@eurodome.com | 07500 66 44 22
Cameron Dickson, Commercial Director cameron@eurodome.com | 07868 20 88 47