Camp and site buildings,
ready for the crew.
Workforce housing, quarters, site offices, washrooms and camp storage, built complete in our facilities on steel skids and set on your site in days. When the project moves, the buildings move with it.
What is relocatable workforce housing?
Relocatable workforce housing is accommodation built complete off-site on a steel skid, set on prepared ground in days without a poured foundation, and moved to the next project when the work ends, on oil and gas, industrial and remote sites across Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. The difference from a camp trailer is that these are buildings, built to meet or exceed CSA A277 and the National Building Code, that happen to move.
Herauf builds it in its own facilities and delivers to camps and industrial sites in Alberta, with Alberta projects finished and staged at its yard in St. Paul. What a camp quote needs is set out in what to specify for workforce camp buildings, and the 40' × 18' site office is described in modular site offices in Alberta.
Offices and other buildings on a permanent foundation are on our commercial modular buildings page.
What buildings, how fast, and on what foundation?
- Buildings
- Workforce housing and dormitories, on-site quarters, site and safety offices, washrooms and showers, kitchens, and food and industrial storage.
- Sizes
- A 30' × 14' safety office, a 40' × 18' site office and 42' × 14' on-site quarters with a bedroom, an office, two washrooms and self-contained water and waste. Published sizes run up to 55' × 18'.
- Foundation
- A steel skid welded in Herauf's own shop. No poured foundation: a gravel pad and a level site are the ground work.
- Timeline
- Set in days. Roughly 16 weeks to manufacture and deliver, up to 50% faster than building on site.
- Relocation
- Plumbing, electrical and HVAC are self-contained, so when the work ends the building goes to the next project.
- Standard
- Meets or exceeds CSA A277 and the National Building Code.
- Delivered
- Sites across Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, including Wainwright, Fort McMurray, Whitecourt and Yellowknife.
- Remote campus for NAIT
- 56 rooms
- Faster than site-built
- Up to 50%
- Meets or exceeds
- CSA A277
Everything a site needs
before work starts.
Workforce housing and dormitories
Accommodation for a project's crew, delivered complete and ready for crews on arrival, from a single unit to a full remote campus.
On-site quarters
42' × 14', with a bedroom, an office, two washrooms and self-contained water and waste.
Site and safety offices
A 40' × 18' site office for a lease, a camp or a project site, and a 30' × 14' safety office.
Washrooms and showers
Barrier-free washroom and shower buildings, on municipal services or self-contained water and sewer.
Kitchens and food storage
Kitchens are built the same way, and a dedicated food storage building serves an oil and gas camp near Whitecourt.
Industrial storage
Equipment and industrial storage buildings engineered for remote and northern sites, including one hauled to Yellowknife.
Site office and quarters floor plans
Published layouts with the dimensions, floor area and rooms as printed in our brochures.
Camp and site buildings,
already working.
Camp housing and food storage for oil and gas, a site office for an energy operator, and a full remote campus on a bush site with challenging road access. Each one links to how it was built.
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.
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.
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.
Buildings, built to code,
that happen to move.
Days on your lease
Units arrive complete, so crews are on site for days, not months. The building is on the production line while the site is prepared.
No poured foundation
The steel skid is the foundation. It is welded in Herauf's own shop, the unit travels on it and sets down on it, and a gravel pad and a level site are the ground work.
Moves when the project does
Plumbing, electrical and HVAC are self-contained, so when the work ends the same building is lifted onto a truck and goes to the next project.
Remote-ready
Delivered to sites across Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. On a remote site the schedule advantage is larger, because trades never have to be flown in.
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
- 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.
What kinds of buildings do you supply for camps and industrial sites?
Site offices, safety offices, on-site quarters with self-contained water and waste, workforce housing and dormitories, washroom and shower buildings, kitchens, and food and industrial storage. Published sizes run from 30' × 14' up to 55' × 18'.
Does relocatable workforce housing need a foundation?
No. The steel skid is the foundation. It is welded in Herauf's own shop, the unit travels on it, sets down on it on a gravel pad, and lifts off it again when the project ends.
How fast can camp buildings be set up?
Units arrive finished and are set in days. Most builds are manufactured and delivered in roughly 16 weeks, and because the building is made while the site is prepared, the approach runs up to 50% faster than building on site.
Have you built for oil and gas operators before?
Yes. A site office for Surge Energy at Wainwright, workforce housing at an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray, and a food storage facility for a camp near Whitecourt, among other projects across Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Who supplies workforce camp buildings in Alberta?
Herauf supplies the buildings: relocatable workforce housing, site offices, kitchens and camp storage, built complete on steel skids in its own facilities and delivered to Alberta camps and industrial sites. Delivered work includes workforce housing at an oil and gas camp near Fort McMurray and camp food storage near Whitecourt.
Has Herauf built crew accommodation at scale?
Yes. NAIT's forestry campus at Kidney Lake in northern Alberta is a full remote campus of 14 dormitory buildings with 56 rooms and 3 classrooms, delivered to a remote bush site with challenging road access.
Who supplies modular site offices in Alberta?
Herauf builds a 40' × 18' site office and a 30' × 14' safety office on steel skids, finished complete, and delivers them to Alberta sites. Alberta projects are finished and staged at its yard in St. Paul. Delivered work includes a site office for Surge Energy at Wainwright.