We are grateful for this tremendous opportunity to serve our local community.
EUGENE, OREGON / DECEMBER 10, 2025
St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County will deploy a Deployed Logix (DLX) shelter complex to serve as an emergency Egan Warming Centers hub for Springfield, Oregon. The complex consists of two X-40 shelters, one X-24 shelter, four XW-70, four rigid doors, and one X-HUB. Together, the shelters will accommodate up to 104 individuals and will remain in place through March 2026.
Concept Drawing to Help Visualize Warming Shelter Options
Exploring Future Warming Shelter Build-Out Possibilities
Grateful for all the hands and hearts making this happen
Egan Warming Centers provide emergency, low-barrier shelter and food to Lane County’s unhoused population when temperatures drop below 30° Fahrenheit (−1.1° Celsius). The program partners with local government, public safety agencies, faith communities, and local volunteers to staff warming centers and provide a safe place for vulnerable, unhoused neighbors.
St. Vincent de Paul of Lane County provides a range of life-stabilizing assistance and self-sufficiency resources to vulnerable individuals and communities through the development of innovative solutions, services, and partnerships. To learn more or to volunteer, visit svdp.us.
Common Questions:
What are warming centers?
Warming centers are places that open for a short time or during certain seasons to give people a safe, warm place to stay during cold-weather emergencies, especially when it gets dangerously cold.
When do warming centers open?
Warming centers open when the weather gets dangerously cold, like during winter storms or when officials warn about unsafe temperatures or wind chills. They might stay open overnight, for a few days, or as long as the cold lasts, based on what the community needs.
Founded in 2012, Deployed Logix (DLX) is a leader in American-made rapid deployment shelters and disaster preparedness solutions.
Working with public and private organizations worldwide, DLX focuses on delivering reliable, intuitive, and innovative solutions for front-line workers, first responders, and the military.
TRANSCRIPTION FROM KEZI VIDEO:
Deployed Logix (DLX) and St Vincent de Paul teamed up today and St. Vinny’s workers were able to learn how to build a whole new kind of warming shelter with colder months on the horizon. Reporter Tayten Torgrimson takes a deeper look at why staff getting this type of training is so crucial for the people who end up needing them.
Bill Barnard, the supervisor for the Egan Warming Center, and someone who works with SVPD, says that he believes his staff could have figured out how to build these shelters, but seeing how the DLX crews operate and learning their tricks for ultimate speed was insanely helpful.
I won’t say it’s impossible, but it would have taken us a substantially more amount of time. And just having the training and the tips and the tricks around all of the ins and outs of this entire system, it’s complex. There’s a lot to it, lots of moving parts.
These trainings provide crucial knowledge that leads to teams of people that do not work for DLX able to put these shelters up in a timely fashion. Training started around nine Thursday morning. After the first little bit of training, DLX was able to take a step back and give the St. Vinny’s crew the reins.
We started at nine. We started with this middle then did that, and we fully trained up their agency, St Vincent de Paul on how to do it. And now we’re kind of letting them take the lead and make sure they understand it, and just kind of going through with them and just making sure everything goes together, right. And they’re doing an amazing job.
One of the coolest, most innovative ideas behind a structure like this is its ability to move, say another shelter were to fill up fast and other shelters aren’t reachable due to weather or any other circumstance, the shelter can be broken down and put wherever it is needed.
So the really cool idea behind this is a temporary structure, right? So they can pick this up, move it to wherever they need to be. If they have a heavily populated area and the shelter fills up and they need to put another shelter there, they can easily move this and transport it over there in a pretty fast-paced time.
The shelter that was built today and is currently up will be there till March. An SVDP says that this kind of shelter is a trial run, and they’re testing whether or not it will be plausible as an actual building. The shelter is currently located in a space near Coburg Pizza on Centennial Boulevard in Springfield.
Reporting, I’m Tayten Torgrimson.
TRANSCRIPTION FROM DLX VIDEO:
Egan Warming Centers is the no barrier emergency shelter system for extreme winter temperatures. Anytime that we find an average of 30 degrees or lower, we activate to provide emergency shelter for our neighbors and those that need a place to go.
The biggest issue with Eagan is that when we go to activate, we have to go out and find buildings. This shelter system really brings down the bar as far as what I need to deploy in an emergency shelter.
This team has been phenomenal. DLx showed up at force this morning, right with us. They’ve been shoulder-to-shoulder with us all morning. When you look at the competition, you look at what else is available out there. Nobody was able to get us into this price point and to provide the same level of quality.
We had to have somebody who was willing to work with us and was just as invested in this project as we are.
The entire experience working with the entire team has been nothing but positive working DLX. I’m looking forward to not only adding on to this shelter but also being able to purchase more in the future and continuing this partnership.
