We truly believe in the limitless capabilities of modular construction and the inherent value that it delivers to our clients beyond cost and time efficiencies.

Reduced site resources:

Removes 8 trades from confined spaces: Modular bathrooms assist in taking up to 8 trades off the site for the bathroom construction works, ensuring stricter quality control within the factory environment. Less traffic onsite means greater efficiency, less management resource and reduced risk of damage and theft to onsite materials.

Project Management Time:

With site-built bathrooms, the builder’s projects team have up to 8 contracts that need to be negotiated, let and then managed over against one-point-of-contact for bathroom pods. There is a significant amount of time that goes into managing the 8 contractors onsite in scheduling their works and making sure they construct the bathrooms on time and within sequence, whereas with a bathroom pod, it is a fully completed unit that is simply rolled into position.

Waste Reduction, Deliveries:

Bathrooms are complex and made up of many parts and materials. With traditional bathrooms, all materials need to be procured separately, delivered to site and then craned onto correct floors and distributed to rooms and stored ready for construction. These individual items then contribute to a significant amount of waste that must be taken back to ground floor and removed from site. With a Modular Bathroom there is 1 x plastic wrap and 2 x or more steel or timber gluts that need to be removed from site significantly reducing the volume of waste and cost of waste removal. Construction mess is a real challenge for builders onsite and the feedback from builders that have used bathroom pods is that it keeps their sites as clean as a whistle in comparison to the waste that piles up in the rooms.

Defects:

Up to 80% of project defects occur in the bathrooms when they are traditionally built onsite. This occurs for several reasons including the lack of supervision, the confined spaces that multiple trades are working in concurrently, poor lighting and skill gaps with tradespersons. The difference with a modular bathroom is that it is constructed in a factory environment which allows for much higher consistency and repeatability without the challenges that tradespeople are faced with onsite. Each pod can be lit up and worked on within specialised cells and then able to go through a thorough defect and Q&A checking process within the factory prior to being signed off for dispatch to site. The joint walkthrough between the Site Manager and bathroom pod project manager then allows for any movement that may have occurred in transport to be rectified.

Program Savings:

Program savings with bathroom pods vary from project to project and are subject to the building design, stakeholder involvement and design compatibility and various other factors in the critical path.

Read detailed notes on Program Savings under DELIVERING > HOW MUCH TIME OFF THE BUILD PROGRAM DO PODS SAVE?

Quality & Reputation:

Construction companies who utilise bathrooms pods in their build methodology vote quality as being the no.1 driver for using pods; and the impact this has their reputation with clients, buyers and the market is substantial. The precision finish and detailing achieved in a factory environment is very challenging to replicate consistently onsite.