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Analysis of Portakabin’s INternational operations

The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Huntington, United Kingdom with operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Holland. Portakabin Limited operates as a subsidiary of Shepherd Building Group Ltd. Portakabin has positioned its products at the top end of the market: it looks to provide high levels of quality at premium prices. The company provides project-management, architectural, free surveys, and customer support services. Portakabin Limited also offers its buildings for sale or hire. 

Portakabin Limited is engaged in designing, manufacturing, and delivering modular and portable steel-framed buildings to meet the needs of various organizations that range from major national companies to small businesses and sole traders in Europe. It supplies a range of buildings to meet the needs of changing rooms sites, accommodations, and marketing suites; and education buildings for colleges and universities, classrooms nurseries and children's centers, science blocks and food technology, students union buildings and common rooms, teaching blocks, and whole schools.

Sustainable Production

Sustainable development should consider not just the energy efficiency of a building, but also the efficient use of resources and energy during the construction process. Evidence is growing to show that off-site construction is a highly sustainable method of delivering high-quality permanent buildings. Since POrtakabin provides offsite building and construction its operations have the following benefits:

* Maximising the use of standard width materials, minimising the amount of cutting to fit

* Door and window cut outs from insulated wall panels can be re-used in other modular products

* Value engineering the composition of polyurethane insulating foam can result in a 10 per cent reduction in material consumption

* Steel beams can be supplied to the factory in the...