20ft Office in a Refurbished Shipping Container

Refurbished rather than new, this 20ft office container is the budget route to a professional workspace on site. The shell is an existing shipping container that has been stripped, repaired and rebuilt as an office, which is why it lands at roughly half the price of a purpose-built unit while doing the same job. For a project office that will run for eighteen months and then be sold on, that maths usually decides it.

The steel does the security work — a container is a far harder target than a demountable, which matters when laptops, survey gear and drawings are left in it over a long weekend.

Specifications

What it suits

• Site office on a construction or industrial job
• Remote or temporary workspace where mains power is limited
• Sales office or pop-up retail space
• Home studio, study or hobby room on an existing block
• Emergency operations or disaster relief base

Refurbished, and what that means

A refurbished unit is structurally sound and weather-tight, and it has visible history. Expect an even repaint over repaired steel rather than factory-flat paint, and expect the odd dent in a corrugation. If you need a showroom finish for a client-facing office, order the new-build ground level office instead.

Before you order

Final electrical connection must be done on site by a licensed Australian electrician, and a container used as a workplace generally needs council consent if it stays put — see our council approval guide. Other office and conversion options are in the 20ft container range, with pricing context in our price guide.