Construction trailer

ATCO trailer at St. Mary's Paper in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Construction trailers are mobile structures used to accommodate temporary offices, dining facilities and storage of building materials during construction projects.

Hook-ups

Typically, trailers need to be equipped with telephone lines and electrical power. Lavatories are usually provided for separately. They are often skid-mounted, on trailers, or put on piles. Construction trailers are often manufactured using traditional stick-frame construction. Intermodal containers are also being converted into construction trailers.

Permits

Municipalities can require the use of construction trailers to be subject to permit proceedings. The City of Fremont, California, for example, publishes its permit requirements on its municipal website.^[1]

Transport

• Construction trailers are ordinarily moved by heavy trucks but may also be moved by rail.

Germany

There are people in Germany who live in trailers of this type, and in German there is a word for a congregation of these trailers, Bauwagenplatz.

Norway

In 2008 Norwegian media reported that two construction sites (of Byggmester Harald Langemyhr AS) had been housing Polish workers in constructiction trailers — 4 workers in each.^[2]

See also

• Portable building

References

1. ^ "City of Fremont, California municipal website". http://www.ci.fremont.ca.us/Permits/BuildingPermits/ConstructionSiteTrailer.htm. Retrieved 26 November 2010. 
2. ^ http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article1352815.ece

External links

• ATCO trailer gallery
• Alberta Heritage treatise on construction trailers
• Article on construction site security and theft, including trailer contents
• Bauwagenplatz