Camp and site buildings
for Fort McMurray.
Workforce housing, site offices, quarters and camp storage, built complete indoors on steel skids and staged at our St. Paul yard, about 420 km south of Fort McMurray. Herauf has already convoyed workforce housing to a camp in the region.
Who supplies modular camp buildings in Fort McMurray?
Herauf Modular builds workforce housing, site offices and camp buildings indoors on steel skids, finishes and stages Alberta projects at its St. Paul yard about 420 km from Fort McMurray by road, and has convoyed workforce housing units to an oil and gas camp in the region. The units meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code.
The full range is on the commercial modular buildings page, and what drives the price is in how much a commercial modular building costs.
- By road from the St. Paul yard
- 420 km
- NBC climate zone, Fort McMurray
- Zone 7B
- Meets or exceeds
- CSA A277
What is local to Fort McMurray?
- Delivered here
- Workforce housing units manufactured off-site and convoyed to an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray, ready for crews on arrival.
- Staged at
- The St. Paul yard, about 420 km from Fort McMurray by road (measured on OpenStreetMap road data).
- Climate
- The National Building Code lists Fort McMurray at 6,250 heating degree-days, climate zone 7B, with a January design temperature of minus 38 °C and a ground snow load of 1.5 kPa. Herauf builds for zones 6 through 8.
- Public tenders
- Alberta municipalities, school boards, health entities and the provincial government post opportunities on the Alberta Purchasing Connection (APC).
- On skids
- Quarters, site offices and safety offices are built on steel skids with self-contained plumbing, electrical and HVAC, set on a gravel pad without a poured foundation and moved when the work ends.
- Standard
- Meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code.
Workforce housing and camp buildings
Herauf has already built for a camp in the region: workforce housing units manufactured off-site and convoyed to an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray, ready for crews when they arrived. The camp and site buildings in the catalogue are:
- On-site quarters, 42' × 14': a bedroom with a kitchenette, open office space and two washrooms, on self-contained water and waste.
- Site office, 40' × 18': open concept, with a kitchenette, a lunch room and storage.
- Safety office, 30' × 14': two offices and storage.
Each is built on a steel skid with its plumbing, electrical and HVAC self-contained, so it sets on a gravel pad without a poured foundation and moves to the next site when the work ends. What to put in the specification is in what to specify for workforce camp buildings, and the full camp range is on workforce camp and site buildings.
Built for zone 7B
By the building code's measure, Fort McMurray is colder than Regina, Saskatoon or Winnipeg: the National Building Code lists it at 6,250 heating degree-days, climate zone 7B, with a January design temperature of minus 38 °C. Herauf's buildings meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code for climate zones 6 through 8, and washroom buildings can be specified with heat-traced piping where they have to run all winter.
Because the building is finished indoors, the cold changes the site work, not the build. The choice between a skid and a foundation is in steel skid or foundation for a modular building.
Food storage and support buildings
Camps need more than beds. Herauf built a dedicated food storage facility for an oil and gas camp near Whitecourt, delivered directly to the site, and a food storage building alongside the dormitories at NAIT's Kidney Lake field school. Storage buildings are built to order rather than picked from a catalogue size.
Projects in the Edmonton region, and the St. Paul yard that stages Alberta work, are on commercial modular buildings in Edmonton.
Delivered in Alberta camps and sites.
Fort McMurray, Alberta
Oil & Gas Camp Workforce Housing
Workforce housing units manufactured off-site and convoyed to an oil and gas camp, ready for crews on arrival.
Whitecourt, Alberta
Oil & Gas Camp Food Storage
A dedicated food storage facility for an oil and gas camp, built off-site and delivered directly to the site.
Kidney Lake, Alberta
NAIT Remote Forestry Campus
14 dormitory buildings, 3 classrooms, and food storage, rebuilt for NAIT's remote field school and ready for the September intake.
Wainwright, Alberta
Surge Energy Site Office
A durable, accessible modular site office built off-site and delivered ready to operate for an oil and gas operation.
Floor plans for Fort McMurray projects
Published layouts with the dimensions, floor area and rooms as printed in our brochures.
Site offices, safety offices and quarters
Washroom and shower buildings
- Washroom/shower unit, 14' × 14'14' × 14', 196 sq ft
- Washroom/shower unit, 22' × 14'22' × 14', 308 sq ft
- Washroom/shower unit, 26' × 12'26' × 12', 312 sq ft
- Washroom/shower unit, 32' × 14'32' × 14', 448 sq ft
- Washroom/shower unit, 22' × 18'22' × 18', 396 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 14' × 14'14' × 14', 196 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 22' × 14'22' × 14', 308 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 24' × 14'24' × 14', 336 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 22' × 18'22' × 18', 396 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 28' × 18'28' × 18', 504 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 38' × 12'38' × 12', 456 sq ft
- Washroom unit, 42' × 18'42' × 18', 756 sq ft
What else do we build
for business and community?
- Commercial modular buildings Offices, medical, institutional and industrial buildings
- Modular office buildings Offices, site offices and safety offices, on skids or foundations
- Modular daycares and schools Daycares for 30 to 90 children, classrooms and program offices
- Modular washroom and shower buildings Nine barrier-free configurations, installed in days
- Workforce camp and site buildings Quarters, site offices and camp buildings on steel skids
- Modular medical clinics and pharmacies Medical centres, first-aid units and pharmacies
- Modular multi-family buildings Duplexes to twelve-plexes, and an eight-suite complex
- Northern and remote modular buildings Delivered by road, ice road and barge
- Commercial modular buildings in Regina Built at the Zehner plant, 20 minutes from Regina
Common questions.
Who supplies modular camp buildings in Fort McMurray?
Herauf Modular builds workforce housing, quarters, site offices and camp storage indoors on steel skids, and has convoyed workforce housing units to an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray. Alberta projects are finished and staged at its St. Paul yard, about 420 km away by road.
What climate are camp buildings for Fort McMurray built for?
The National Building Code lists Fort McMurray at 6,250 heating degree-days, which is climate zone 7B, with a January design temperature of minus 38 °C. Herauf's buildings meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code for climate zones 6 through 8.
What sizes are site offices and quarters?
The published layouts are a 30' × 14' safety office with two offices, a 40' × 18' site office with a kitchenette and lunch room, and 42' × 14' on-site quarters with a bedroom, an office and two washrooms on self-contained water and waste.
Can camp buildings be moved to the next site?
Yes, when they are specified that way. A steel-skid foundation with self-contained plumbing, electrical and HVAC lets the unit be lifted and relocated when the project moves, without a poured foundation at either end.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap road data (routed with OSRM, measured October 2026), OpenStreetMap contributors
- National Building Code of Canada 2020 (Appendix C, Table C-2, and Section 9.36), National Research Council Canada
- Find and compete for government contracts (Alberta Purchasing Connection), Government of Alberta
Road distances are measured from the town of St. Paul to the centre of Fort McMurray and rounded to the nearest 10 km. Delivered projects are from our case studies.