A Grande Prairie modular building is an office, daycare, classroom, washroom or crew facility built complete indoors, finished at Herauf's St. Paul yard, and delivered to Grande Prairie or the Peace Country ready to set in days. Each one meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code, with electric heat standard and solar optional, so the building is working before a site-built one has a roof.
For homes and buildings delivered to the city and to Beaverlodge, Sexsmith and Clairmont, the Grande Prairie modular homes and buildings page is the one to start from. The full range of building types, with every commercial project delivered so far, is on commercial modular buildings. This article walks through three of those types: offices, daycares and crew facilities.
What sizes do modular offices and site offices come in?
Site offices and crew facilities serve the energy and forestry work around the city. Herauf's commercial catalogue has a 30' × 14' safety office, a 40' × 18' site office, and a 55' × 18' office building with five offices, a boardroom and a kitchenette. Site and safety offices are usually built on steel skids with plumbing, electrical and HVAC self-contained, so the office is lifted and moved when the work moves. One Alberta example is a durable, accessible site office for Surge Energy at Wainwright, delivered ready to operate for an oil and gas operation.
How many children can a modular daycare hold?
Grande Prairie has a young and growing population, and childcare and classroom space is needed faster than conventional construction delivers. The daycare line comes in capacity tiers: a compact centre for 30 to 47 children, a mid-size centre for 65 to 82 with dedicated age-group rooms, and a full 90-child facility with school-age, preschool, toddler and infant rooms, a sleep room, a kitchen and a staff room. Modular additions can also connect to an existing building. For education at scale, NAIT's Kidney Lake field school in northern Alberta took 14 dormitory buildings, 3 classrooms and food storage, installed on a roadless site around a fixed academic deadline. More on how learning spaces are built is in modular daycares and schools.
What crew facilities can be built modular?
Workforce housing, on-site quarters, washroom and shower buildings, and food storage for camps. The on-site quarters unit is 42' × 14' with a bedroom, an office, two washrooms and self-contained water and waste. Washroom and shower buildings come in nine barrier-free configurations, up to 42' × 18' with washrooms, a canteen and a change room, and sit on steel skids without a permanent foundation. In Alberta, Herauf has convoyed workforce housing units to an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray, ready for crews on arrival, and delivered a camp food storage facility near Whitecourt directly to site. How the skid model works is in relocatable workforce housing.
How long does a modular building take for Grande Prairie?
About 16 weeks from order to delivery for most builds, up to 50% faster than conventional construction, because site work runs while the building is on the production line. Every Grande Prairie-bound building is built in controlled facilities and finished at St. Paul, so weather and labour never stall it, and the envelope is continuously insulated and airtight for long northwestern Alberta winters. Once it arrives, installation is measured in days.
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Common questions
What sizes do modular offices and site offices come in?
Herauf's commercial catalogue runs from a 30' × 14' safety office and a 40' × 18' site office up to a 55' × 18' office building with five offices, a boardroom and a kitchenette. Site and safety offices are usually built on steel skids so they can be lifted and moved to the next site.
How many children can a modular daycare hold?
Herauf's daycare line is built in capacity tiers of 30 to 47 children, 65 to 82 children, and a full 90-child facility with school-age, preschool, toddler and infant rooms, a sleep room, a kitchen and a staff room. Modular additions that connect to an existing building are also available.
What crew facilities can be built modular?
Workforce housing, on-site quarters with a bedroom, an office, two washrooms and self-contained water and waste, washroom and shower buildings, and camp food storage. Herauf has delivered workforce housing to an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray and a camp food storage facility near Whitecourt.
How long does a modular building take for Grande Prairie?
Most Herauf builds are manufactured and delivered in about 16 weeks, up to 50% faster than conventional construction, because site work runs in parallel with production. Once the finished building arrives, installation is measured in days.
A finished modular building on a snowy highway behind its escort truck