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Portable Site Office Containers

Containers Direct have long been market leaders in shipping container office and canteen conversions, supplying both trade and customers with bespoke conversions from our specialist workshops.

Although shipping container portable offices have always represented good value compared to a traditional build, and have the advantage of being portable too, the costs can still be too high for projects with more limited budgets. To bring down the costs and reduce the selling price, in 2016 we launched the ModiBox? range of steel container portable offices. This concept allows us to retain all the benefits of the standard portable office, in terms of strength, portability and security but at a heavily discounted price.
The ModiBox® also allows for flexibility in design, in terms of the positioning of anti-vandal doors and windows, choice of exterior colours and interior finishes, giving you the opportunity to create your own bespoke container office within a low price bracket.

Why not start to explore the prices and specification of some standard lengths in the range?

10ft portable office container
15ft portable office container
20ft portable office container
30ft portable office container

Standard Features of the ModiBox

Personnel door

Full steel construction personnel door with 12 point multi locking system.

Anti-vandal windows

Our windows are fitted with steel shutters, heavy duty shoot bolts and anti-vandal lip.

Fully repainted exterior

Using solvent free rubberised marine grade paint in a choice of colours.

Lined and insulated

8mm cream or white melamine lining with 100mm rockwool insulation.

Slip resistant vinyl flooring

Fitted with heavy duty 2mm vinyl flooring, which is stain and slip resistant.

Electrical installation

CE compliant electrics including plug sockets, strip lights and wall heater installed as standard.

Strength and Security

Examples of container canteen conversions - 1
The strength and security inherent in a shipping container makes it ideal for the structure of a portable office. The ModiBox retains all the benefits of the standard portable office, in terms of strength, portability and security but at a heavily discounted price. The product also allows flexibility in design, in terms of the positioning of anti-vandal doors and windows, choice of exterior colours and interior finishes, giving you the opportunity to create your own bespoke container office within a low price bracket. The unit is delivered to you on a plug in and go basis. If you're in a hurry we always hold in stock standard sizes from the ModiBox range with standard lay-outs, ready for quick dispatch. Depending on the size you require we begin the conversion with a used 20ft shipping container, or a used 40ft shipping container. For other sized offices we cut these down to the size required, with our smallest office manufactured from a 10ft container. If preferred we can also make the ModiBox from new 20ft and new 40ft shipping containers. We also offer the new build portable office, manufactured from scratch in our fabrication department.


Add a Canteen Package

Everyones favourite time of day at work is lunchtime! Our optional canteen package, which includes a work-top counter, double sink unit and water heater, fitted with inlet and waste pipes, is perfect as a kitchenette.
Canteen packages from shipping containers

Request a Quick Quote!

Contact our sales team for your no obligation quote, including delivery!

The Perfect Base for Conversions

The ModiBox range also provides a fantastic building block for further modifications and can be converted in many imaginative and useful ways:

Canteen packages from shipping containers
Patio doors shipping container
Serving hatches and shutters
Cladding for your shipping container
Air condictioning units
Sloping roof
Skylights in shipping container optional extra
View all container modifications

Extra Wide Portable Site Offices

We understand that one of the main reasons people can't use a regular shipping container office conversion is due to the uniform width of containers (8ft), which can often be too narrow for an office space. Containers Direct have two solutions to this potential problem:

  1. Using our in-house fabricators, we can build containers from scratch to a variety of widths, most commonly to 10ft wide. Although more expensive, these containers are made using 1.6mm corrugated panels as standard, and are completely customisable to suit your needs. We once built the shell of a new build 35ft x 10ft office conversion for our client at Parkstone Bay Marina, complete with ply lining and insulation, who then completed the office interior on site.

  2. Another way of extending the width of your portable site office container is to join two or more of them together. Our bespoke method of joining containers allows for two or more containers to be joined side by side to provide a greater width for your portable office conversion. This option is great as it allows for much larger spaces to be created, whilst still being portable. The largest joining project completed so far was created by joining four 20ft containers side by side to create a school changing rooms, fitted with toilets, showers and two separate changing rooms!

Extra wide site offices

On a Tight Budget?

Take a look at our flat pack container offices if you are working to a tight budget, or don't have the space or access to deliver a shipping container. These offices are fully man portable, easy to assemble on site and are modular, so you can join them up together to make whatever size office space you require. Our portable steel booth offers a smaller space for use as a controlled site entry point.

For larger self assembly offices see our CXO range, which includes new CXO Plus Line. These provide excellent options for larger areas of modular office space with a range of options for external panels and interior fittings.

View Our Flat Pack Options

Other Budget Boxes

The ModiBox is just one of our standardised, low cost container conversions. We also offer a range of standardised packages, available from 10ft in length, for pop-up catering units, schools, gyms and workshops.

MenuBox catering conversion
GymBox home gym
StudyBox container classroom
WorkBox container workshop

Testimonials

As a long established and reputable shipping container company, we want to instil confidence in our customers that we can deliver on our promises, and provide high quality products and service.

But don't just take our word for it, see for yourself what our past and present clients have to say about Containers Direct.
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"The container is in situ and it is as new, just perfect. Your driver was amazing and made sure everything was spot on before he left. A company opposite us has four on site and ours makes them look very secondhand indeed. Thanks again. We have already had so really good comments and without doubt, if asked, we will give them your details."Alligator Dynamic Drapes
9th October 2024
order - a New 'once used' 16ft Container
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"Friendly, supporting, knowledgeable and kept us up to date."Aurora Severnside
6th September 2024
order - a 4m Flat Pack Containers
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"No issues from our order. From initial enquiry, drawings and plans to delivery, all went perfectly. Sales Team were very helpful and made changes from the original concept design to meet our own requirements without hesitation, would highly recommend to others."Bob Gardner, North Air
4th September 2024
order - a 10ft ModiBox Office
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"The flat packs we purchased (4 in total over two purchases) are very good quality, solid, spacious and blend into our outdoor space nicely."From The Vineyard School
28th August 2024
order - a 2m Flat Pack Containers
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"The delivery driver was excellent - courteous and professional. As it said on the website, our container was fully in place in under an hour after starting its installation - excellent."Torthorwald Community Council
25th August 2024
order - a [link=/flat-pack-containers/]4m Flat Pack Container[/link
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"I was very pleased with all the aspects of your service and will use you again."Sample Building Services Ltd
26th July 2024
order - a 20ft builders grade container from our Clearance page.
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We are ISOQAR Approved; certified to the ISO standard relating to Quality Management Systems, demonstrating our Company's commitment to quality. We are also members of MakeUK who champion and celebrate British manufacturing and manufacturers, and member of the Container Self Storage and Traders Association; an international organisation representing the interests of Container Self-Storage Operators, Traders and Innovators.
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