I need an office for 20 staff inside my warehouse. What are my options?
A modular solution can be sized with a tailored mix of P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units, then fitted around the intended use. The online designer shows the final calculated total for the exact configuration before a formal quotation.
Warehouse offices usually start as a corner of the floor plate with a few desks. The pinch point is heating, noise and daylight — a partitioned corner of a shed is rarely somewhere twenty people want to work all week.
Your options compared
Modular office units
Insulated, finished modules joined to the size you need, inside or outside the building.
- Insulated and heated independently of the warehouse
- Arrives finished, so no trades working around your operation
- Can be moved or added to as headcount changes
- Needs clear floor space and access to get the modules in
- Power and data need bringing to it
Stud partitioning
Building office walls directly inside the warehouse envelope.
- Lowest initial cost
- Uses the existing roof and floor
- Weeks of trades on site
- Inherits warehouse noise and temperature
- Hard to remove or reconfigure later
Mezzanine floor
A raised deck with offices above, keeping the floor area below.
- Keeps ground-floor operational space
- Good use of headroom
- Structural design, fire protection and building regulations
- Significant on-site programme and cost
For twenty staff, a joined modular office gives you a proper working environment quickly, without tying the space up permanently. If you rent the warehouse, it is also the only option you can take with you.
What each size gives you
Mix P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units around the space needed; the designer calculates the final total for the exact result.
| Modules | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| 3 modules | Roughly 10–12 desks, or 8 desks plus a meeting space |
| 4 modules | Around 15 desks with a tea point |
| 6 modules | 20 desks with a meeting room, tea point and WC |
How to get it moving
- Measure the clear floor space and the route the modules must take
- Decide whether WCs and a tea point sit inside the office or stay shared
- Design the layout in the builder and get a written quote
- Arrange power, data and heating connections
- Confirm whether your lease or landlord needs to approve it
Costs on top of the building
- •VAT at the prevailing rate
- •A level, load-bearing base or foundation sized to the building
- •Transport to site, quoted on distance and access
- •Offloading, and crane or hiab attendance where access requires it
- •Final connection to mains power, water and drainage by your own contractor
- •Planning permission or building control fees where these apply
P300–P700 range, or bespoke
- P300 unit
- 2.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 2.7m × 2.0m usable internally (5.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P400 unit
- 3.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 3.7m × 2.0m usable internally (7.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P500 unit
- 4.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 4.7m × 2.0m usable internally (9.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P600 unit
- 5.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 5.7m × 2.0m usable internally (11.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P700 unit
- 6.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 6.7m × 2.0m usable internally (13.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- Configuration
- Mix P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units to create tailored footprints and shapes
- Bespoke
- Bespoke sizes considered to suit your brief — contact us
- Joined internal space
- Open joins remove the adjoining shell walls and can increase usable space. Final clear area depends on layout and partitions.
- Unit height
- 2.40m external / 2.16m internal
- Storeys
- Up to two storeys, subject to final project design
- Delivery
- UK mainland and Northern Ireland — transport quoted separately
Adacon modular buildings use P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units with external lengths of 2.9m, 3.9m, 4.9m, 5.9m and 6.9m, a common 2.2m width and 2.40m external / 2.16m internal height. The sizes can be combined to create more tailored floor areas and building shapes, joined side by side or stacked to two storeys subject to the final project design.
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