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Site welfare and cabins

Welfare facilities are not optional on a UK construction site. Schedule 2 of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 makes them a duty from the first day of work, and the standard expected scales with how many people are on site and how long the project runs. In practice that means sanitary conveniences and washing facilities in reasonable numbers, a supply of drinking water, somewhere to change and dry clothing, and a rest area where people can sit, eat and make a hot drink out of the weather.

Andor Group supplies and maintains that infrastructure alongside its security services — site cabins, drying rooms, canteens and toilet blocks — across London, Southampton and the South Coast. Covering both with one provider matters more than it first sounds. The welfare compound and the site perimeter are usually planned separately and then end up arguing with each other, with cabins sited where they block the access route or create a blind spot the cameras were relied on to cover.

Phased projects add a further wrinkle. Facilities that suit a groundworks crew of eight rarely suit forty people at first fix, and a compound that made sense in week one often sits inside the building footprint by month six. Planning those moves in advance costs less than reacting to them.

These articles cover what the regulations actually require rather than what is commonly assumed, how to size and position a welfare compound, what to weigh up when hiring cabins for an active site, and how temporary infrastructure should change as a build progresses.