The high infection rate of COVID-19 among migrant workers in Singapore attracted global’s attention on the living conditions of construction site. How to create a comfortable andlow cost dormitory is indeed a serious problem for more and more builders contractors.

As is often the case,the dorms and the offices on the construction site cannot be permanent buildings. As long as the engineering project is completed, these temporary buildings will inevitably be demolished. Therefore, for many years, we have commonly seen temporary buildings assembled with prefabricated house, although this prefab house is cheaper, but it also has many disadvantages, such as poor sound  and heat insulation. Especially in cold winter and hot summer, the workers suffer from the pain of frostiness and and torridity.

Now more and more contractors are turning to the dorm construction with more comfortable flat pack container house. Although the price is slightly more expensive at the time of purchase,its amortized cost is much lower than the prefab house after considering its multifarious applications and over 20-year long life span under the condition of repeated disassembly and assembly.

How to use flat pack container house to create comfortable living or working condition for workers on the construction site?

• Container room

With standard size of 5.8m length, 2.4m width and 2.89m height or customized size of 8m max length, 4m max width and 3.3m max height,1 unit of flat pack shipping container could put 4 bunk beds or more.

Welding with steel structure, flat pack containers could become more habitable with a stair and a balcony, which facilitate workers to go in and out,dry clothes and have a rest.

• Container bathroom

Build a small bathroom with 1unit of flat pack house or combine sever units of flat pack containers to create a large bathroom for many workers sharing together.

• Container office

Take use of different flooring design to beautify the office.There are different floor options for flat pack design, such as fiber cement, plywood, bolivian magnesium.

Combine several units of flat pack shipping containers to build a large meeting room.

• Container kitchen

Choose flat pack house made from Rock Wool panel, Glass Wool panel or PU panel to guarantee good fireproof and waterproof function for the kitchen.

When one engineering project is finished, these container rooms ,offices, bathrooms can be transported to another construction site without disassembly. Certainly, they also can be disassembled to use as other applications, such as container home,container shop,container hotel,container hospital,refugee camp and so on.Further more, they can be rent out to obtain fast return of investment. All things considered,worker dorms buit with flat pack container house are indeed lower than those with prefabricated house.