Grow Your Business By Stocking Both Temporary Fence and Pedestrian Barriers

If you serve industries that include construction, events, municipalities, or rental customers, offering both temporary fencing and pedestrian barriers isn’t just a convenience — it’s a strategic advantage. Each product solves a different problem, attracts a different customer segment, and generates revenue in a different season. Together, they create a more profitable, more resilient business that can weather demand cycles and win larger, more complex jobs.

Across the rental, distribution, and fence contractor markets, customers increasingly expect a one-stop supplier they can trust. Carrying both types of barricade positions you to meet that expectation while capturing more opportunities in construction, infrastructure, crowd management, and event safety.

The Business Case: Why You Want to Carry Both Fences & Barriers

The Business Case: Why You Want to Carry Both Fences & Barriers

1. Reach More Markets

Temporary fencing and pedestrian barriers don’t compete — they complement each other. Each has a different use case that serves an infinite number of projects.

Temporary fencing serves:
Construction, infrastructure, utilities, municipal work, industrial yards, and long-term perimeter control.

Pedestrian barriers serve:
Festivals, concerts, races, sporting events, community programming, parades, and high-volume pedestrian spaces.

If you only carry one, you miss entire segments of the market.

If you carry both, you capture everything.

2. Smooth Out Seasonal Demand

Construction and infrastructure perimeter fence rental create steady, predictable recurring revenue for months at a time. Events generate fast-turn, high-volume rentals during peak seasons.

Stocking both:

• fills gaps during construction lulls
• ensures trucks and inventory stay moving
• prevents revenue swings tied to one market

It’s a year-round revenue engine for fence rental companies.

3. Increase Average Order Value

Many customers, especially events, municipalities, and large contractors, need both systems on the same project.

Examples:

• Temporary fence for secured areas + screens for privacy
• Pedestrian barriers to guide spectators and create walkways
• Panels for equipment zones + barricades for ticketing queues

Providing the full package increases your ticket size and strengthens your role as the preferred supplier.

4. Become the Easy, One-Stop Supplier

Customers don’t want multiple vendors, multiple deliveries, or multiple contracts.

When you offer both temporary fences and pedestrian barriers:

• You win more bids You simplify logistics
• You reduce customer friction
• You build loyalty
• You become their default call

Convenience is a competitive advantage — and it’s one your competitors may not offer.

5. Improve Fleet Utilization and Lower Transport Costs

Carrying both products lets you:

• fill trucks with mixed loads
• reduce empty or half-full deliveries
• keep assets working
• streamline loading/unloading with ZND fence and barrier stillages
• Deadhead miles go down. Fleet efficiency goes up.

6. Build a More Resilient Business

When construction slows due to weather, permitting, or economic cycles, events and public programming often continue. Stocking both stabilizes your revenue and protects against market fluctuations.

Understanding Each Product: How They Support Your Business

Temporary Fencing (Perimeter Security + Crowd Space Control)

Temporary fencing is engineered for security, separation, and privacy. These systems are tall (6 ft or 8 ft), highly durable, anti-climb, and built to create a physical boundary that communicates “no entry.”

What Temporary Fence Does Best

• Keeps people out using anti-climb welded mesh
• Creates a secure perimeter around high-value or hazardous areas
• Adds privacy when needed with 85% customizable block screens
• Withstands wind (with stabilizers rated up to 93 mph)
• Provides long-term stability via SmartWeld joints
• Supports one-person installs with the Installer Series
• Stacks efficiently in ZND stillages

Ideal for:

• Construction and infrastructure projects
• Equipment and material yards
• Utilities and municipal sites
• VIP zones and broadcast areas at events
• Back-of-house privacy at festivals and tournaments
• Restricted-access zones requiring separation

Real Example: Crowd Space Control

At large sporting events like the DC Open, temporary fencing is used not for foot traffic, but to separate public areas from staff-only zones, protect equipment, and provide privacy. It’s still crowd control — just a different kind.

Recommended ZND Solutions

• Installer Pro / Plus / Max
• Privacy Screens Universal
• Temporary Fence Stillage

Pedestrian Barriers (Crowd Flow Control)

Pedestrian barriers — sometimes referred to as “bike racks” — are built for movement, not security. These waist-high barricades guide people along safe, defined paths and help organizers manage large groups efficiently.

What Pedestrian Barriers

• Do Best Guide foot traffic with clear, visible lanes
• Reduce trip hazards using low-profile flat foot legs
• Move and reconfigure quickly during dynamic events
• Extend branding with custom covers
• Create orderly entries and exits with hook-and-loop connections

Ideal for:

• Festivals, concerts, and parades
• Sporting events and races
• Sidewalk detours
• Ticketing lines and entries
• Short-term, high-traffic public areas
• Crowd routing around temporary hazards

Recommended ZND Solutions

• SmartWeld Pedestrian Barriers
• Barrier Stillage

Two Types of Crowd Control: Flow vs. Space

This is the critical distinction that strengthens your business case.

Crowd Need	Best Solution	Why
Keep people moving in a specific direction	Pedestrian barriers	Visible, low-profile, designed for flow
Keep people out of a restricted area	Temporary fencing	Tall, stable, anti-climb
Create privacy or staff/VIP separation	Temporary fencing + screens	Height + visibility reduction
Maintain orderly queues	Pedestrian barriers	Repositionable and intuitive
Bridge public-facing edges of a work zone	Both	Security + flow
Protect staging, equipment, and broadcast areas	Temporary fencing	Secure perimeter
Large events with public + private operations	Both	Seamless crowd management

Bringing It Together

Stocking both temporary fencing and pedestrian barriers positions your business to serve more customers, win more bids, stabilize your revenue across seasons, and become the preferred supplier for both construction and events. ZND’s full line of welded wire mesh temporary fencing, pedestrian barriers, customizable screens, stillages, and accessories makes it easy to build out inventory that’s flexible, efficient, and ready for any job.

Need Help Deciding What to Stock?

Send us a list of the types of jobs you handle — or the projects you want to win. We’ll help you build the ideal product mix for your region and customer base.