Established in 2009 and based in Santa Barbara, CA, Life Cube, Inc. is a specialist in rapid deployment shelter technologies. The genesis of the Life Cube system began when entrepreneur Michael Conner witnessed the devastation in 2005 wrought by Hurricane Katrina and a massive earthquake in Pakistan. Watching humanitarian efforts, it became clear to him that a quickly deployable, portable shelter could be enormously helpful in providing life-saving shelter and supporting on-the-ground operations by aid workers.
Mr. Conner immediately committed himself to invent an entirely new class of transportable shelter – one that would combine the ruggedness and utility of a trailer with the speed and expandability of breakthrough inflatable technology. The result is the Life Cube. Today Life Cube, Inc. is a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative air-beam shelters for a variety of markets and uses.
“Its ready for use within five minutes as a 144 square foot refuge with an 11 foot high ceiling providing shelter and food and water for five days for up to five people,” he adds.Invented and blueprinted entirely on his kitchen table, Mr. Conner says he came up with the idea for his “shelter in a cube” after witnessing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the massive Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, both of which occurred in 2005 and left a wake of death with millions of victims without shelter for weeks or months. What puts Life Cube in a class of its own as a temporary shelter he explains is its rapid deployment capability.
Each Life Cube is equipped with a battery-powered blower which provides immediate inflation and assembly by just two people.
Among Life Cube’s standard features are a self-sufficient, solar powered power system, communications equipment, water filtration devices, propane or kerosene cook top, first aid kits, ready-to-eat meals (MREs) and a wide variety of essential survival supplies. Completely U.S.-made, each Life Cube is manufactured and assembled entirely in Florida and California.
Mr. Conner immediately committed himself to invent an entirely new class of transportable shelter – one that would combine the ruggedness and utility of a trailer with the speed and expandability of breakthrough inflatable technology. The result is the Life Cube. Today Life Cube, Inc. is a leading designer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative air-beam shelters for a variety of markets and uses.
“Its ready for use within five minutes as a 144 square foot refuge with an 11 foot high ceiling providing shelter and food and water for five days for up to five people,” he adds.Invented and blueprinted entirely on his kitchen table, Mr. Conner says he came up with the idea for his “shelter in a cube” after witnessing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the massive Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan, both of which occurred in 2005 and left a wake of death with millions of victims without shelter for weeks or months. What puts Life Cube in a class of its own as a temporary shelter he explains is its rapid deployment capability.
Each Life Cube is equipped with a battery-powered blower which provides immediate inflation and assembly by just two people.
Among Life Cube’s standard features are a self-sufficient, solar powered power system, communications equipment, water filtration devices, propane or kerosene cook top, first aid kits, ready-to-eat meals (MREs) and a wide variety of essential survival supplies. Completely U.S.-made, each Life Cube is manufactured and assembled entirely in Florida and California.
