Top Trends in Portable Building Design and Construction

Transportable units are becoming an increasingly popular building method in the modern age. With the cost of building increasing each year, people are looking for ways to build in a more efficient, faster and cheaper way. With this increase in the number of portable homes, schools and offices, we are seeing more innovative building techniques and designs surrounding the construction process. Whether it is a way to improve the flow of the space, save more time on the build, or allow the residents to exploit the space for a number of different applications and uses, transportable units are becoming better and better each year. In this article, Elite Portables discusses the top trends in portable building designs and what we should expect to see in the coming years. 

Commercial and Residential Crossovers 

One of the great things about transportable units is their variety of applications. We are seeing this more and more these days in the way that councils and governments are utilising portable homes to help with housing issues and homelessness. Units that were once used for commercial use, can easily be re-designed, have their interior changed and quickly made into an affordable, safe and comfortable place for people to live. The fact that these portable houses are generally quite small allows a dense number of people to live in privacy, on a relatively small amount of land, which can be extremely useful in cities and towns that don’t have a lot of unused and open space for new housing developments. 

Introduction of Luxury Portable Houses 

Portable homes have an affiliation with cheap and affordable living. In the last few years at Elite Portables, we have been moving alongside this increase in environmentally friendly ‘tiny houses’. A trend that we are likely to see more of moving forward is the introduction of more luxurious portable homes. Today, there is a range of luxury materials and innovative ideas that allow portable houses to be a lot fancier and nicer than they used to be in the past. Spaces with a portable home office, fold-out tables, chairs, beds, kitchen areas, work-out spaces and much more are becoming more readily available. With this increase in the baseline standard of portable homes, we are bound to see some luxurious ones be designed in the near future. 

Eco-Friendly Designs 

Tiny Homes is a term that has been used to describe environmentally friendly portable houses for years. They use much less electricity, water and gas to run, while also being better for the environment in terms of materials used and upkeep. This trend is expected to continue, with portable houses becoming even more eco-friendly in the future. At Elite Portables Home, Office & Storage Solutions, we build units that double as portable home offices, which also reduces the necessity for people to drive to work, further lowering people’s carbon footprint. Learn more about portable home offices and transportable units by getting in contact with our team today.