Our good customers at West Minster School have just received their delivery of their new Expandacom buildings. They wanted an outdoor learning room with as much light as possible inside, as the building will not be wired up to the electricity. The building needed to blend in with a new built extension which has just been constructed, and it needed to be good value! With this brief, we came up with the idea of supplying an Expandacom building with full length glazing in the windows and door and had them specially painted in grey to match the new building. At the same time we installed a further two Expandacom buildings, linked end to end to provide valuable secure storage facilities.

The Head Teacher wrote:

Hi Andy, The buildings are absolutely splendid, thank you for your work in installing them and arranging for their delivery etc. They have really added to the school, I am really proud of them! Well done!

Transpak buildings were used for this project, and continue to be the first choice for many camp project managers as they are so adaptable. They can be linked, triple stacked, flatpacked and quickly transported anywhere in the World.

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In brief, 2011 has been a very busy year for Extraspace this year, with the launch of Expandacom – The U.K’s only flat-packed, man portable, stack-able, linkable cabin. Exports for this product are growing steadily, and we are identifying new markets with a need for this type of building.

We have completed camps in Nigeria and Liberia together with numerous projects in the U.K.

Our association with Kudos Buildings & Ballistic Structures commenced early in the year, and we are now working on various structures for military and disaster relief projects.

Extraspace Worldwide Ltd has increased it’s production of Expanda products in the Ankara factory, and continues to improve the design of the buildings.

Phoenix Building Sytems have had a steady year so far, and continue to manufacture the modular buildings for the U.K market.

All in all, the Extraspace Group has had a good 12 months, but nobody is resting on their laurels here, trading conditions continue to be tough in the U.K, and export will be the way through it!

The last few modules for a large accommodation camp are now being loaded onto flatrack containers at our Lingfield Depot bound for Sierra Leone. Extraspace supplied not only the flat packed ‘Transpak’ buildings themselves, but also a full air conditioning system, showers, toilets, sinks and all the associated plumbing in modular form so that minimal work is required on site to commission them.

The £500,000 contract is the third project in Africa we have been involved with this year. The camps in Nigeria and Liberia have  now been successfully completed.

Further contracts are expected in Chad, Dubai and Pakistan later in the year.

On April 1st 2006, the new dedicated Expanda distribution depot opened for business.

Based in Lingfield, Surrey the depot is close to the M23/25 motorway network ensuring that customers receive their orders quickly and efficiently throughout the U.K.

Andy Hall, Operations Director at Extraspace describes the new depot as “an excellent move from our previous depot in Croydon”. He continues “logistically and commercially it is absolutely the right decision for Extraspace in order to continue our rapid growth in the flatpack building sector. Customers will also be able to come and view demonstration buildings in pleasant surroundings – something Croydon could not offer”.

The Oakhill Education Trust had a problem… one of their schools needed to provide additional classroom accommodation quickly and cost effectively. Not only that, the only piece of land available at the Surrey Hills School was inaccessible to all but those on foot!

Enter the clever team at Extraspace… the only portable buildings manufacturer who provides man-portable, flatpack, modular buildings for just this purpose.

The product that fitted the bill was of course, the Expandakabin. The portable building was delivered in flatpack ‘kit’ form, and armed with nothing more than some former pupils and a supervisor provided by Extraspace, the building structure was up in six hours!

Very pleased with the results, the school has now asked Extraspace to provide a technology workshop / classroom using the same system.

Expanda flatpack buildings continue to increase their market share in the portable buildings market, due to their low price tag, fast availability and simple DIY assembly.

Getting accommodation to inaccessible locations is nothing new to the team at Extraspace.

And just to prove it, one of their recent projects involved flying flat packed buildings to a remote location on the Isle of Skye to provide accommodation for a film crew.

The ‘Expanda’ range is a revelation in the portable building world.

This low cost DIY portable building system is now being used around the World for a host of applications.

Closer to home however, the more likely use is for home / site offices, workshops, playrooms and stores.

Consisting of two products: Expanda-Store and Expanda-Kabin: both products are fully modular and can be extended by adding further modules at any time after initial assembly. They can be transported whilst assembled (with a cargo on board) or flatpacked and stored away whilst not in use.

Try doing all of that with a conventional portable building!

Extraspace are giving away a free CD Rom video with every brochure.

With those early morning “doubt demons” beginning to nag at the back of my mind with questions like – ‘what has been forgotten’ or ‘what has been over looked’, I set of for Bishops Stortford on a clear and warm day – always a good omen. We were installing the Regional Offices for “Wilson Bowden” onto the roof of the Jackson Square shopping Centre.

On arrival you see the 300 ton crane has arrived, the first modules are parked up in a nearby lay-by and the crew have made it down from the factory intact and your fears start to dispel.

In glorious weather the installation of an eight bay high specification office was lifted with great care and skill onto the steel foundation plates specially made for the job. By mid afternoon the team had dispersed and it was like we had never been around but hidden high in the roof tops was another Extraspace building

Traveling home is always easier!

This project was completed in four weeks from order to installation.

Siemens have taken delivery of their new project offices at Littlebrook Power Station, Dartford.

The fully air conditioned complex was constructed with three specially manufactured JackCAB units with extra wide links in order to give an open plan layout.

‘Stenni’ was used on the external face of the building, this aggregate cladding eliminates the need to repaint the structure, increases the overall life of the cabins, and gives a please aesthetic appearance.

As well as delivery and installation of the complex, Extraspace sourced and organised all the furniture required as a courtesy service.

As from September this year, we will be relocating to a new head office location, we have already designed the new site and have begun the moving process by setting up our depot and a small office at the new location. Our new headquarters will give our company and our clients many benefits, namely:

• Improved communications (as all key staff will be on site)
• Larger stock holding facilities (enabling faster delivery times)
• Product display area (enabling clients to visit and see our product range in person)
• Extra space (allowing us to take on further staff, to assist the smooth running on our company)

We will keep you updated of our move over the coming months.

New Marketing Suite for Goldcrest Homes in Wimbledon.

Extraspace’s ‘Projects Division’ has completed a ‘ “bespoke” Marketing Suite for Goldcrest Homes at their exciting new property development in Wimbledon.

Their brief was to create an innovative structure, using the shell and fittings from an existing building. The finished solution offers a very tastefully designed and enjoyable work space.

The buildings’ attractive environment has had the desired effect, with Goldcrest Homes reporting a 50% reservation take up in their first weekend, which has surpassed their expectations.

The building features an internal water feature, full CCTV coverage and air conditioning – everything that you would expect to find in a high class sales centre.

Extraspace’s next project of this nature is for Taylor Woodrow.

Extraspace had 26 staff working inside the 10m x 4m double storey building, which prompted Rex Whittaker, a Director of Goldcrest Homes, to pass on his thanks for Extraspace’s ‘sterling’ efforts during the 6 week construction period.