Algeco strives to promote ease of doing business globally and locally:
- Our modular buildings can be used for either temporary or permanent applications, and can be deployed quickly and economically. Need a small stand in six days, or an entire open air market in just six weeks? Algeco can supply it, together with a rental plan that meets your budget. At the end of the rental period, Algeco can dismantle the building into its component units, and remove them from your premises. Your needs for space will always be matched by Algeco’s capacity to satisfy them, promptly and efficiently.
- Our modular buildings allow fast modifications to be made to the building layouts, furniture and services to meet the continuously evolving demands of the client. Business can expand current facilities or add new standalone structures to accommodate shifting space requirements.
- Relocatable modular buildings are the perfect solution for customers who require such facilities to operate and grow their organizations, even to remote locations.
The Benefits of Algeco’s Modular Construction
Algeco’s Modular Construction | Conventional Construction |
|---|---|
Quicker and easier approval process, less technical and administrative requirements | Very long and complex approval process. |
Modular Construction enables occupancy up to 50% faster than conventional construction, since the site work and construction steps occur simultaneously. | Conventional construction requires that each step of the construction process to be complete prior to proceeding, especially for site work and construction. |
Controlled manufacturing processes and superior workmanship result in superior quality. | Potential for inconsistent quality due to weather delays and variances in workmanship. |
Flexibility makes expansion easier. | More engineering is required for expansion. |
Both mobile/temporary and permanent applications. | Permanent applications only. |
Explore the many benefits of Algeco’s Modular Construction:
Simplified Legal Environment
In Russia, buildings made with modular elements benefit from a simplified legal environment allowing clients to erect them much faster thanks to less complex administrative and technical demands. There is in Russia an important difference between capital construction and temporary building, difference which lies in the building’s ties with the soil: a temporary and moveable building does not have a fix link with the soil and can be moved without major damage.
This has huge repercussion regarding documentation requested and norms to comply with: moveable and temporary buildings are exempted of architectural projects and not subject to strict construction constraints and regulations; moreover fire resistance requirements are much lower than for capital construction; additionally a much more flexible regulation is applied for buildings lower than 4 storey, less than 2000 square meters, and temporary.
Therefore, and according to Russian regulation, it is much faster, cheaper, and more convenient to register buildings made of modules as temporary and moveable buildings. Indeed, this special status, and consequently choosing Algeco’s Modular Construction, is the easiest way to get a building built and qualified in a short time!
Speed
Speed of construction is considered by all project participants to be the principal advantage of Algeco’s Modular Construction. Simultaneously doing the site work and constructing the modules in a factory yields up to 50 percent time savings over conventional construction methods.
While work related to grading, foundation, below-grade structural elements and utilities is underway on site, the building modules are constructed off site in a factory environment. The modules comprise structural, HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning), electrical, plumbing, and fire systems, as well as many interior and often exterior finishes.
Moreover, Algeco’s Modular Construction is a repeatable construction process with standardized practices, making the whole space solving process highly efficient.
Quality
Because more than 50 percents of the total building needs are fulfilled by a factory-based construction, Algeco’s Modular Buildings benefit of greater construction reliability and higher construction quality.
Indeed construction inside a factory environment offers many advantages over conventional onsite construction:
- A productive working environment: a well-lit indoor space with a constant and comfortable temperature and protection from the elements allows workers to function more effectively.
- A controlled process bringing consistency: Algeco’s Modular Construction incorporates proven, standardized practices and process efficiencies. This also leads to reduced material waste.
- An easier Quality Control.
- A rigorous tolerance handling: assembling on-site modules constructed inside a factory makes the final work much more precise.
It should also be noted that the structural integrity of modules is built to withstand transportation from the factory to the site and meet or exceed the same building codes and standards as site-built structures.
Flexibility
Algeco’s Modular buildings can be seamlessly reconfigured, relocated or removed to support change in your business. This kind of flexibility is not an option when using conventional construction.
There are limitless design options available! Modular units may be designed to fit in with the external aesthetics of existing buildings. For example, all exterior materials can be customized to your specifications (not to mention the interior materials).
Sustainability
Algeco’s Modular Construction is inherently sustainable: due to the component-based factory-construction process used during the manufacturing process, modular buildings are inherently “greener” than a similar traditional site-built structure.
Algeco’s Modular Construction allows for the following:
- During the manufacturing process, no impact from inclement weather such as winds, rain, snow, cold and heat.
- Reduced material waste.
- Decreased site disturbance: less time in calendar days spent onsite by construction crews; fewer workers to manage on-site; reduced noise, dust, staging, traffic, deliveries, and work site risk.
Remark: We have, on demand, energy saving kits allowing to make a gesture to environment while cutting on your energy bills.