Case Studies
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Q&R Events
Flat Pack Flexibility Is Favourite For Innovative Events Company
- Sector
- Clubs, Events & Hospitality
Speed, security and versatility are just three reasons why Q&R Events is using Portable Space flat packs as a key element in its growing hospitality business.
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L3 Harris
Modular System Is Ideal Housing For Welfare Facilities
- Sector
- Business & Industry
Modular building for welfare facilities incorporating a canteen, toilets and changing room with lockers and showers, sited inside a warehouse
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The Kings Arms, Haughley
Demonstrating the versatility of flat pack containers for hospitality
- Sector
- Café, Retail & Museums
Flat pack kiosks make the ideal solution for increasing covers and serving outdoor customers for bars, restaurants and pubs throughout the UK.
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Railscape
Specialist Team Keeps Project On The Rails
- Sector
- Business & Industry
Portable Space overcome delivery and installation challenges for linked jackleg cabins project
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Lazy Llama Café
Team Delivers Vision For Sisters’ Coffee Company
- Sector
- Café, Retail & Museums
Two sisters have seen their joint business ambitions come true with the opening of their new café, housed in a converted container.
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Newquay Trampoline Park
Shipping containers play central role in new trampoline & play park
- Sector
- Clubs, Events & Hospitality
Portable Space provide containers linked together for food preparation and servery areas; playrooms, a briefing area & first aid room, and toilet blocks
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Construction Site Canteen
In-house skills provide all the ingredients for construction site canteen
- Sector
- Construction
Successful coordination of a wide range of in-house skills has resulted in Portable Space creating a new canteen for one of its regular customers, a major UK housebuilder.
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Culford School
Top marks for additional accommodation and secure storage
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
Culford school in Suffolk ordered storage containers for dry, lockable storage for sports equipment and a 24ft jackleg cabin for use as additional office space.
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National Maritime Museum
Converted container helps enhance customer experience at National Maritime Museum
- Sector
- Café, Retail & Museums
Portable Space were asked to fabricate and install a cut-to-size 40ft container to appear in the museum to showcase this history of transportation.
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Creeting St Mary CEVP School
Gold star for new classroom at Suffolk primary school
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
An increase in the number of pupils and the need for additional classroom accommodation led to a Suffolk school contacting Portable Space to see if they could help.
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Burnell Switchgear & Control
Pre-installation fit-out streamlines production process
- Sector
- Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas
Over the years Burnell’s has commissioned many shipping containers from Portable Space to be used as sub-stations in the solar industry.
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Aveillant Ltd
Durable shipping containers make ideal housing for latest radar technology
- Sector
- Defence & MOD
Converted shipping containers were chosen as a practical solution to house state-of-the-art radar technology.
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Keller UK
Unique container conversion provides flexible site welfare solution
- Sector
- Construction
The need to provide welfare units for construction projects led to one company asking Portable Space to devise a mobile solution that could be moved easily from site to site.
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SB Developments
Quality product meets criteria for self-storage
- Sector
- Self Storage & Removals
Plans for a new self-store facility right in the centre of Clacton-on-Sea led Gary Chisnall, Director of SB Developments, to choose Portable Space to supply 28 one-trip shipping containers.
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NIAB
Shipping containers provide ideal space for temporary storage
- Sector
- Agriculture & Horticulture
A major building project has resulted in the need for temporary storage at the Cambridge headquarters of the NIAB and shipping containers provided the solution.
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Bury Turfcare Ltd
Jackleg cabin meets needs of growing turf care company
- Sector
- Business & Industry
Bury Turfcare commissioned a bespoke jackleg cabin to use as a combined workshop and rest room, together with toilet.
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Great Barton CE Primary Academy
New storage solution frees up classroom accommodation
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
A growing school roll and the expansion of the age range of its pupils, led a Bury St Edmunds school to invest in outside storage space to free up classroom accommodation.
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St Bede’s Inter-Church School
Portable Space gets top marks for speedy service and delivery
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
When a Cambridge school urgently needed secure storage after a fire on its premises, Portable Space pulled out all the stops to deliver the next working day.
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Byron Marine
Meticulous design and planning meets Falkland Island challenges
- Sector
- Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas
Providing bespoke containerised conversions to be shipped across the world requires meticulous planning and precision.
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St Elizabeth Hospice
Portable cabin provides additional on-site storage
The Fundraising Team at St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich urgently needed additional storage space following the relocation of its offices to a different part of the site.
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St Edmundsbury Borough Council
Container conversions are practical solution for welfare and storage
The need for a staff welfare unit for its Grounds Maintenance team led Bury Cemetery to purchase two shipping containers conversions from Portable Space.
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Countryside Properties plc
Team’s knowledge and experience are foundation to excellent working partnership
- Sector
- Construction
Countryside Properties plc, a major UK housebuilder, is working with Portable Space to meet its accommodation and storage needs across its current operating sites.
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Burnell Switchgear & Control
Converted shipping containers help bring power to African communities
- Sector
- Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas
Fitting out shipping containers to provide switchgear housings for solar power has resulted in electricity reaching remote parts of Eritrea for the first time.
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QinetiQ Group plc
Container is converted into mobile ammunition process unit
- Sector
- Defence & MOD
Representatives from QinetiQ UK Operations contacted Portable Space looking for support in designing, manufacturing and delivering a Mobile Ammunition Process Unit for an MOD establishment in South Wales.
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CarFest, BBC Children In Need Appeal
Shipping containers create charity play area
- Sector
- Clubs, Events & Hospitality
Portable Space has supported CarFest events in aid of the BBC Children In Need Appeal for several years. Most recently it donated five 20ft converted shipping containers which were transformed into eye-catching entrances to ‘Superhero World’!
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Upper Street Events
Container creates cycle circuit at annual showcase
- Sector
- Clubs, Events & Hospitality
Shipping containers can be converted for many different uses – including forming a tunnel at the UK’s biggest annual cycling event at the NEC in Birmingham.
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The Priscilla Bacon Hospice
Shipping containers serve as ideal base for charity pop-up shops
- Sector
- Café, Retail & Museums
Using shipping containers for a series of pop-up charity shops provided the perfect solution for a major construction company with a commitment to helping its local hospice.
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Drive Vauxhall
Limited access drives decision for flat pack storage
- Sector
- Business & Industry
The need for a secure storage container for motor parts, to be located in a space with very tight access, led Drive Vauxhall in Bury St Edmunds to explore Portable Space’s Flat Pack range.
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Gammers
Shipping containers are proving ideal for self-store facility
- Sector
- Self Storage & Removals
A Stowmarket company looking to expand its portfolio with the addition of industrial units for self-storage has turned to Portable Space for help.
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Priory School
Additional office space gets top marks
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
A Special School needed to increase its office space after winning a contract from Suffolk County Council to deliver an outreach service.
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Hillcrest Nurseries
Additional toilet facilities meet growing popularity of coffee shop
- Sector
- Café, Retail & Museums
The expansion of its very popular Coffee Shop meant increasing the toilet facilities at Hillcrest Nurseries, a Plant Nursery in Bury St Edmunds that also operates a Farm Shop, Delicatessen and Bakery.
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Westley Middle School
Fast turnaround delivers classroom for start of term
- Sector
- Schools, Colleges & Daycare
A lost order for a classroom unit and 30 additional children scheduled to arrive at the start of term could have been a disaster – but Portable Space rose to the challenge and saved the day.
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