Helping expanding businesses with modular buildings

In today’s fast-paced business world, adaptability is key to staying competitive. As businesses grow, evolve and change, so do their space requirements. Traditional construction methods often come with long timelines and high costs, which can delay progress. Enter modular building construction — a versatile and efficient solution for flexible business expansion. This approach combines speed and cost-effectiveness with flexibility and scalability, making it the perfect choice for businesses.

What is modular building construction?

Modular building construction involves creating the building parts away from the construction site so they are ready to be assembled when they arrive. Think of it as a large-scale Meccano set! We make all of the parts at our Dorset manufacturing facility, ship them to the build location, then put them together on your site.

What industries are they suitable for?

The adaptability of modular buildings makes them suitable for any industry. From Public Sector and Sports to Defence and Logistics. Have a look at some examples of the type of space that can be delivered with modular construction:

Retail and hospitality – restaurants, customer service centres, seasonal or event venues and pop-up shops like this one here.
Sports – changing rooms, club houses, equipment storage, event facilities, gyms, fan zones, take a look at some of our examples here: Gym facility, fan zone, changing facility.
Warehouse and logistics – loading bays, additional storage space, on-site offices, workshops. Here are some we’ve done previously: Global Warehouse, Unisystems Freight.
Education – classrooms, science labs, libraries, staff facilities. Here is a temporary classroom we built during the RAAC crisis.
Healthcare – clinics, patient waiting areas, temporary facilities.

Why choose modular construction methods?

You may be thinking, ‘why would I choose modular construction over traditional brick and mortar building methods’ or ‘are they really that reliable?’ There are many, many benefits, here are just a few…

Cost-effective – our payment options are completely flexible meaning you can rent a building for as little a few of weeks to multiple years or you can buy the building out right.
Speed of construction – typically only taking a few weeks to install, compared with many months for brick and mortar installs.
Minimal disruption – the speed of building modular means less noise and disturbance to communities, staff and productivity.
Flexible and scalable – our modular buildings are relocatable so if your business moves, the building can move with you too! You can also add or remove building bays in line with your changing business needs.
Sustainability – all of our modular buildings are relocatable, reusable and recyclable so all the material does not go to waste! Once you’ve finished with it, we’ll give your building a second lease of life on a new site for a new client.
Customisable – the building can be designed to fit your exact needs! If you have a difficult shaped piece of land, we can design a bespoke building to fit into the exact requirements like this build here.
Comfortable working space – These aren’t chilly, leaky outbuildings! If you have staff constantly working you can heat or cool the structure to make a comfortable environment. Speak to us about the best roof and wall options for temperature control.

The process to creating a fast and flexible modular structure

Whether you have land secured or are in the early scoping phases, we’re happy to help and support.

Where possible, our preference is to meet you on site to measure up and discuss your project in more detail
We’ll draw up plans and visuals and give you a range of specification and pricing options to suit you
You select your preferred solution
We can support you through the planning application phase (if you would like more information, have a look at our planning permission blog here)
When you’re ready, you confirm the order and we’ll get to work making your building and scheduling the installation
We come to site to construct the modular building, using our dedicated install crew
We hand over the keys, your building is ready to go!
We can offer a maintenance package to keep your building in the best possible condition

At Mar-Key Group, we have been providing modular solutions since 1991 across a diversified range of sectors so you can trust us! Not only do we provide readily available solutions, we also have customisable building options suitable for any purpose.

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