Portable Buildings And Their Uses

Portable buildings were first used in 1955 in the United States under the brand name Porta-Kamp, and were brought to the United Kingdom in 1961 under the name Portakabin. Portable buildings can be used for a wide variety of functions and in many different configurations depending on the requirements. Over the years, portable buildings have benefited from material development and the evolution of construction techniques and ideas resulting in a vast change in external and internal appearance and durability from their initial guises in the 1950s and 1960s. Some can even quite easily be mistaken for permanent structures nowadays due to the materials and designs used in manufacture.

The idea behind their initial conception, portable (demountable) buildings were to be used as temporary housing or storage for construction projects and would only be in use for a small number of weeks of possible a few months. Though conversely, when people realized the inherit durability of these supposedly temporary buildings, they began using them for much longer periods of time and for a wide range of different functions, from toilets to houses to waiting rooms.

Portable buildings are very popularly used today in educational institutes. Schools that are in emergency need of classrooms or wish to expand their student intake on a small scale can very quickly, easily and cheaply hire a portable building to solve the problem. Also, schools that want to set up educational programs in remote areas can very quickly set up a classroom by using a demountable building.

Another very popular use for portable buildings is on construction sites where these buildings make great storage facilities and temporary office buildings for construction workers. It is very common to see these buildings stacked on top of each other, or connected horizontally to be fused together to create large internal areas. To make them more livable they can also be plumbed into mains water and electricity supplies, they can be heated using central heating or individual heaters and they can also be fitted with air-conditioning, although their insulating properties are commonly not useful for saving money.

Lastly, another sector in which portable building use is widespread is the healthcare industry. As in many industries, portable buildings are frequently used as offices in the healthcare sector, though they are also used for (arguably) more helpful means in certain areas of the world. In some remote countries where it is difficult not only to find the money, but also the materials and location with which to set-up a permanent structure such as a clinic or hospital, portable buildings can be deployed very quickly as semi-permanent bases for doctors and nurses to help people in need.

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