While construction might have to take place year round, one of the biggest problems that crews find is that travel can become more difficult in colder winter climates. If management is remote from the site, this can make communication much more difficult. A solution to this is having a mobile office on the construction site. By being accessible to your crew, management can solve problems that normally can’t be dealt with without actually being there, saving time and money. Having an office site on location also helps keep your crew in one place, particularly with bigger construction projects that are estimated to last longer than a year.
Once you review the advantages of having a mobile office and storage space, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without them.
The Modern Mobile Office: Why You Need It
Mobile offices today are feature-complete, meaning you can run your operations from a fully functional central command, complete with all needed connections, toilets, and even food stations. With a feature-complete mobile office, you can minimize the need to go to a central office, and can take care of basic duties such as payroll on-site with minimal travel. An added advantage is that you can immediately troubleshoot problems that are taking place in real time, coordinating with project management to ensure that things are going smoothly in regards to ongoing construction. This can help reduce the need for slowdowns that inevitably come with seasonal change, reducing the need to halt the project until it becomes unfeasible due to weather. However, even then an onsite office is useful, because it is easier to inspect the effects of weather on the project.
The biggest advantage that comes with having a mobile office is, finally, mobility. Because the office can be moved, it can be shifted from project to project wherever there is the greatest need for on-site management and maintenance. In cases where construction has just started, or there is little access to central water systems at the outset of a project, many mobile office designs can be adapted in order to take advantage of portable water sources, making sure that the office is comfortable for employees while ensuring smooth performance. And, because you can design the office around multiple projects, your project management team can ultimately become more nimble in terms of performance, as well as making it easier to work with subcontractors.
Do You Need Storage?
Along these same lines, almost every construction company needs storage on-site for a variety of reasons, whether it’s for office paperwork and information related to a specific project or tools, supplies, equipment and materials commonly used in the course of day-to-day business. Making sure that your mobile central command has everything on hand to keep the job going is one of the major inconveniences of traveling from site to headquarters and is solved through the use of mobile storage. Because of this, it’s a good idea to use on-site portable storage to make your on-site headquarters into a “one-stop shop” that can keep a project running smoothly and efficiently.
