Modular & Portable Buildings

WillScot module sheets with size, packing count and fit-out lines

A buyer can start from a published external size instead of a blank architectural brief. Each sheet names the plan, the storey count, the lifting points and the envelope option before anyone asks for a price.

Volumetric modules leave the plant with more MEP preinstallation, which cuts site hours when a crane and a road permit are available. A bolted knock-down frame packs denser in a 40HQ and asks the site crew to close joints, so the same floor area is not the same delivery method.

Design wind speed, ground snow load and seismic basis stay blank until the destination is named. A catalogue figure is not a permit.

Crane setting a WillScot modular office with visible corner lifting points
29 Destination countries on the 2026 planning range
5,984 Modules or equivalent area logged since 2004
22 Years of published modular building practice

Four catalogue families inside one product line

WillScot sells modular and portable buildings. The four cards below are fit-out families, not separate structural systems. Open a card to start a quote with the use written in the opening line.

Linked modular site offices with a steel skirt

Site offices

Open plan or cellular rooms, 2.4 m or 3.0 m external width.

Portable classroom module with a side corridor

Classrooms

Single or paired rooms with a corridor link and a stated acoustic note.

Clinic module with a clean anteroom

Clinic rooms

Anteroom, consult room and a factory sanitary package with a site tie-in list.

Ablution module showing wet-area wall lining

Ablution blocks

Wet rooms with a separate drainage point and a corrosion note for the frame.

45 m/s Sample design wind speed, revised per site
75 mm Default wall panel before core selection
1 / flat Volumetric WS-2436 on a 40-foot flat rack
4 mm Diagonal tolerance on the March 2024 shop check

Project matrix with type, place, count and scope

These four records use the same four fields so a reviewer can compare delivery scope without reading a brochure paragraph. Client legal names are omitted because this site does not publish third-party contracts.

Coastal site offices stacked two high beside a crane

Coastal contractor offices

  • Building type Two-storey site office
  • Place Queensland coast, 2022
  • Quantity 48 volumetric modules
  • Scope Factory power, data and HVAC interface; site crane and skirt

Wind was entered as 45 m/s before steel was cut. The crew finished the link corridors in 11 weeks after the modules landed. A panel coupon was not treated as the wall fire rating.

High-desert camp offices with mineral-wool walls

High-desert camp offices

  • Building type Single-storey camp office
  • Place Northern Chile, 2019
  • Quantity 36 modules
  • Scope Z275 cold-formed frames, rock-wool walls, site plumbing tails

Day-night temperature swing drove the core choice toward rock wool rather than EPS. Packing stayed volumetric because the mine road accepted the module width.

School swing-space classrooms with a covered link

School swing space

  • Building type Classroom pair
  • Place Ontario, 2021
  • Quantity 12 rooms
  • Scope 75 mm PIR walls, target U-value 0.35 W/m²K, site skirting

Ground snow load was written as 1.5 kN/m² on the design basis sheet. The PIR core was accepted for the heated rooms; partitions between rooms used a heavier mineral-wool build where the acoustic note asked for it.

Clinic annex modules with bolted corner joints

Clinic annex

  • Building type Outpatient annex
  • Place Gulf coast city, 2023
  • Quantity 8 bolted modules
  • Scope Factory sanitary package, site medical gas excluded

Bolted frames were chosen so eight modules shared one 40HQ packing plan for the wall sets, while floors shipped separately. Medical gas remained a site package because the plant does not certify that scope.

Where a standard module is a fit, and where it is not

Jobsite office cluster beside a tower crane

Contractor compounds

Short programmes that need a relocatable building (RB) with a known plan. A permanent modular construction (PMC) reading of the same box still needs the local code path.

Classroom modules along a school fence

Education swing space

Term-length rooms where window area, acoustic partitions and an accessible entry are listed before the order, not after delivery.

Modular clinic beside a district hospital

Clinical annexes

Consult and support rooms. Operating theatres and imaging suites sit outside the standard model sheet because of shielding and gas scope.

Camp office and ablution row on a mine lease

Camp support blocks

Offices, dining support and ablutions that share a foundation interface drawing. Dormitory density is quoted after the bed count and the fire strategy are both written down.

Documents issued on request, with a revision date

Files are not posted as open downloads. Each row names the document, the models it covers, and the revision a coordinator can ask for.

WS model data sheet, rev 2026-03. Covers WS-2436 and WS-3030 external sizes, door swings and lifting-lug coordinates. Ask for the PDF from the quote form.

Blank design-basis form, rev 2026-01. Fields for design wind speed, ground snow load, seismic design category and importance. The form does not fill a code for you.

Set-down and bolt-torque notes, rev 2025-11. Applies to volumetric set-down and to bolted knock-down frames. Crane charts stay with the site lift plan.

Scope letter, rev 2026-02. States that ISO 9001:2015 is a quality-management certificate and that IBC, Eurocode or NCC acceptance is a project review, not a catalogue commitment.

Price the model you can name

Include destination, quantity, storeys, climate loads, fit-out and the discharge port. A reply quotes the listed model or says which line has to change.