Daycares and classrooms,
open on schedule.
Childcare centres, classrooms and program buildings, built complete in our facilities and delivered ready to use. Your site is prepared while we build, so a program can open this year instead of next.
What is a modular daycare?
A modular daycare is a childcare centre built as finished sections inside a factory, then delivered and set on its foundation ready to use. Herauf builds them in capacity tiers from 30 to 90 children, to meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code, and designed to meet childcare and educational facility requirements.
Classrooms, campus buildings and program offices come off the same line, to the same code. It is one of the building types on our commercial modular buildings page.
30 to 90
Children, by daycare tier
56 rooms + 3
Dorm rooms and classrooms for NAIT
Up to 50%
Faster than site-built
CSA A277
Meets or exceeds
Sized to your enrolment,
built to code.
Daycare, 30 to 47 children
Compact centre for growing communities
Daycare, 65 to 82 children
Mid-size centre with dedicated age-group rooms
Daycare, 90 children
Full facility: school-age, preschool, toddler and infant rooms, sleep room, kitchen, staff room. Delivered: Maple Creek, SK (2025)
Daycare Additions
Modular additions that connect to an existing building
Classrooms and campus buildings
Classrooms, dormitories and food storage for a campus, including NAIT's roadless field school at Kidney Lake.
Program and community offices
Program offices and community service offices, built to commercial code and delivered finished.
Education and community
buildings, already in use.
A remote campus for a polytechnic, a program office for a college, and a child and family services office serving a First Nation. Each one links to how it was built.
Kidney Lake, Alberta
NAIT Remote Forestry Campus
14 dormitory buildings, 3 classrooms, and food storage, rebuilt for NAIT's roadless field school and ready for the September intake.
Yorkton, Saskatchewan
Suncrest College Agricultural Office
A modular office for Suncrest College's agricultural program, built off-site and delivered ready to occupy.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
St. Theresa Point Child & Family Services Office
A child and family services office serving St. Theresa Point First Nation, manufactured off-site and delivered complete.
Built for a date
on the calendar.
Open for the intake
Modules are built in our facility while your site is prepared, so the building is ready in a fraction of the time a site-built one takes. NAIT's campus was installed around a fixed September intake.
Quiet next to an operating school
Most of the work happens off site, away from a working school or a residential street, which keeps noise, traffic and safety risk down during the build.
Funding deadlines met
Grants and program funding often come with a date attached. A faster, more predictable build is what makes that date achievable.
Built to code, built for kids
Every unit meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code, and is designed to meet childcare and educational facility requirements. Controlled production means consistent insulation and airtightness.
$15,000 Infrastructure Grant
Herauf is putting $15,000 toward eligible new modular builds across Canada. Community, municipal, First Nations and private projects qualify, and eligibility is confirmed within 5 business days.
Common questions.
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.
Is a modular daycare or classroom built to the same code as a site-built one?
Yes. Every unit meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code, and the daycare and education line is designed to meet childcare and educational facility requirements. Because it is built in a controlled facility, accessibility, ventilation and finishes are built in and checked before the building leaves.
How long does a modular daycare or school building take?
Most Herauf builds are manufactured and delivered in roughly 16 weeks, up to 50% faster than conventional construction, because the site is prepared while the building is made. On site, the work shrinks to the foundation, the set and the tie-ins, measured in days.
Has Herauf built for schools and colleges?
Yes. For NAIT's Forest Technology program, Herauf manufactured 14 dormitory buildings with 56 rooms, 3 classrooms and a food storage building for the Kidney Lake field school, installed on a roadless site ready for the September intake. Herauf also built an agricultural program office for Suncrest College in Yorkton.
Does the $15,000 Infrastructure Grant apply to a daycare?
It can. Herauf is putting $15,000 toward eligible new modular builds across Canada, and residential, commercial and community projects qualify, including municipal, First Nations and private projects. Eligibility is confirmed within 5 business days.
Tell us who the building is for.
Send the enrolment, the site and the date you need to open. We will come back with a written quote, usually within one business day, with no obligation.
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