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Panel and chain-link fencing, gates, screen, and barricades. Fencing carries longer lead times than sanitation and waste, and it is the line most often discovered late, after a safety walk or a permit condition.
Updated October 29, 2026.
| Option | Used for |
|---|---|
| Panel fencing | Faster to install and relocate. Shorter runs and changing work fronts |
| Chain link with anchored posts | Long-duration perimeters where security matters more than flexibility |
| Privacy screen | Available on either. Often a permit or neighbor-relations requirement rather than a choice |
| Construction gates | Pedestrian and vehicle access points. Specify width and how many |
| Barricades and cones | Traffic and pedestrian control around active work, including bike barricades |
When a contract doesn't say what fence to put up, the military's guide spec for temporary facilities is a sensible baseline. UFGS 01 50 00, written for USACE, NAVFAC and AFCEC jobs, describes three kinds.
| Type | Height | How it stays up |
|---|---|---|
| Chain link panels | 6 ft, or 8 ft where you need more security | Galvanized steel panels linked at the bases. Each base gets weighed down with sandbags or something like them so the run stays upright in the wind you expect |
| Post-driven chain link | 6 or 8 ft | Galvanized posts driven below grade, at least 10 ft apart, with a lockable gate. Locate underground utilities before the first post goes in |
| Orange mesh safety fence | At least 48 in, with openings no bigger than 2 in | High density polyethylene tied tight to T-posts. Marks a hazard more than it secures one |
All three have to stay taut when 200 pounds of force is pushed on them from any direction, giving less than 4 inches. The same spec asks for warning signs on the perimeter fence every 150 feet.
Where a job has to block the public's view, the spec's answer is an 8 ft enclosure: shadow-box wood, or chain link carrying brown, UV resistant plastic mesh netting like you'd see around a tennis court. Rented screen is the second kind.
Screen changes how a fence handles wind, because mesh that blocks sight also blocks air. That's why we ask about screen and ballast in the same conversation. If your engineer wants the loads worked out, the Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute publishes a wind load guide for fence carrying screens and slats.
The ASTM standard guide for temporary fence on construction sites, F3342, gives the same advice we would before anything gets picked: read the contract specs and the site plan, check local codes, walk the existing conditions, and think about how long the fence will be up.
Those are orders delivered from October 26, 2024 through October 26, 2026, canceled ones left out. The median stay is from the 109 that have been picked up. Order notes mentioned sandbags on 83, privacy screen on 23 and a gate on 14. Read these as our own orders, not a national average.
Linear footage and duration, with delivery, installation, and removal usually quoted separately. Gates, privacy screen, and anchoring are line items, not assumptions. A real order in our record was 300 linear feet of 6-foot fence with double sandbags, quoted alongside a porta, a dumpster, an office trailer, and a generator on the same agreement.
Fencing carries longer lead times than sanitation and waste because it needs measurement, an install crew, and usually a layout conversation. It is also the line most likely to be discovered late, after a safety walk or a permit condition. Scope it with the rest of the program before mobilization rather than after.
Single fence orders book faster through Construction Fencing Dogs. This page is for sites where fencing is one line among several.
Linear footage, height, how many gates and where, whether you need privacy screen, and the duration. If you have a site plan, send it. If you are already running restrooms or containers with us, this goes on the same agreement and the same invoice.
By linear footage and duration, with delivery, installation, and removal usually separate.
Panel for speed and flexibility. Chain link for security and duration.
Usually 6 feet, with 8 feet where you need more security or a screened enclosure.
Earlier than sanitation and waste.
Barricades, channelizing devices, bike barricades, and cones, sourced alongside fencing.
Sources, checked October 29, 2026: UFGS 01 50 00, Temporary Construction Facilities and Controls; ASTM F3342, Standard Guide for Temporary Fence Applications for Construction Sites; Chain Link Fence Manufacturers Institute, Wind Load Guide WLG 2445.