5 Benefits of Using a Shipping Container as a Mobile Office

As you can see from looking at the Gateway Gazette, shipping containers aren’t just used to store and transport goods and possessions these days! Thanks to architects and engineers seeing the great potential of them as building blocks, containers have been used in a variety of ways in recent times from mobile offices to apartment blocks, and even mansions. One of the main reasons for this is that the shipping container is almost infinitely customisable.

There are many benefits for both self employed and small business owners to consider a mobile office converted from shipping containers. You can “reinvent the box” so to speak by building a custom office to your exact specifications with any bespoke features you might need, or go for an off the shelf option.

Whether you’re in the market for a temporary or permanent personal workspace, converting a steel shipping container into a mobile office offers many more advantages over building or renting a conventional office.

5 reasons a shipping container works as a mobile office

1. Shipping containers create a convenient working environment

Shipping containers make for a quiet and comfortable work spaces. While you may already have a designated space for your office at home, focusing on your business may be difficult with interruptions and noises from other rooms.

If your boss is having you work from home on a long term basis due to COVID concerns, you can still escape the bedlam of family life by having a mobile office in your garden. Having a completely private office close by, yet still separate from the main home, can help you work in peace and enable you to finish your tasks properly and on time.

Where it comes to building sites and even semi-permanent installations on a workplace yard, the container can provide that essential space for meeting clients, admin and so on.

2. Shipping containers are naturally spacious

Shipping containers were designed to transport large loads of bulky items making them naturally spacious by nature. This means you’ll end up with more room to operate and store important items in your office. Containers also come in different sizes, from a compact 10 feet to a spacious 40 feet in size. You can find a perfect unit that will accommodate both your office equipment and all the people you’ll be working with.

This also applies if you add insulation to keep the heat and cold outside. Using spray foam or modern insulation materials behind stud walls and ceilings, this would lose just 20cm or so off the internal space.

3. Shipping containers are highly customisable

With the ability to easily create advanced modifications to shipping containers at our workshop, you can get virtually anything you need in your office. The possibilities are endless – you can purchase modified containers with ventilation and wiring installed for your convenience. Add workbenches, personal access doors, and sliding glass windows or virtually any other office accessory you can think of to suit your specific business needs.

4. Shipping containers are secure

Built to be secure from even the most determined cargo thieves, shipping containers are built with security in mind. If security is added in to your mobile office, perhaps with decent locks and remote wifi/cellular CCTV, you can safely leave your IT systems and other high value items inside and allow crooks to try their best, confident they won’t succeed.

5. They can be easily transported

Pretty obvious when it comes to a mobile office, eh? The reason is that with some forethought to design, the mobile office can still sit within the ISO dimensions required for transport on a truck, train or ship. As long as the resultant weight is kept within the 21 tonne limits for a full container, it is possible to crane them onto and off the transport rig with standard equipment. Unless you replaced all the walls with bulletproof glass and kept a mainframe computer inside you’d do well to exceed the maximum gross weight.

It’s never been easier to convert a container into an office!

Creating a mobile office out of a shipping container has never been easier. Reduce your costs compared to renting expensive offices in commercial buildings and save travel time by locating your office on your own property. Check out this amazing mobile office to see just how good they can look!

It’s never been a better time to consider a custom built, completely mobile and environmentally friendly office built from recycled shipping containers. Contact us today to speak to our team of container experts to get an in-depth mobile office quote or for any other shipping container enquiries you may have.