When you need spacious, hygienic and secure laboratory facilities, especially for schools, universities, and educational campuses, the range of portable and modular buildings from Portakabin can be designed to fulfil your every requirement.

No internal columns

Our modular buildings feature expansive, column-free rooms that provide total layout flexibility. This makes them ideal for school science labs where flexible layouts are needed for lab benches, demonstration areas and student workstations.  

Portakabin laboratories can be configured and fitted out to meet your requirements. Whether you need a modern secondary school science lab, a temporary laboratory during school refurbishment, or additional STEM teaching space our interiors are easily configured to meet your exact technical specifications without structural interference.

Ready to use

Our comprehensive one-stop-service ensures your modular laboratory is fully plumbed and fitted with all the data connections, power sockets and gas supply points you need.  

For schools, this means fully equipped laboratories ready for immediate teaching, including science benches, gas taps, safety equipment and data connectivity for modern STEM education

Our robust, all-steel buildings offer you the benefits of wipe-clean surfaces throughout, allowing you to meet the strictest clinical hygiene and safety standards required in school science laboratories from the moment you receive the keys. 

As part of the decant for the Tinbergen Building, fjmt studio were commissioned to design, in collaboration with Portakabin, three modular laboratory buildings. Although only intended to provide temporary accommodation for a period of up to five years, the modular laboratories still needed to provide state-of-the-art facilities for the world leading departments. These facilities ranged from Cat 2 wet laboratories and constant temperature rooms to over 50 specialist testing booths, some electromagnetically shielded to enable EEG studies.

Adrian Yap, Principal, fjmt studio

Case studies

Don't just take our word for it, see what our customers say about our track record of delivering successful laboratories for education providers, research facilities and specialist teaching environments. 

Case Studies

Your school laboratory from Portakabin

  • Versatile, column-free modular buildings enable you to create labs of any size, with any internal layout.
  • Buildings fitted out with hard-wearing benches and work surfaces and tough epoxy-resin sinks as well as all the alarm and security features you need.
  • Easy-to-maintain facilities with wipe-clean surfaces for a safe and hygienic laboratory.
  • Labs equipped to your specifications with gas taps, secure storage cupboards, fume cupboards and any other specialist facilities.
  • Labs can be stand-alone buildings or incorporated into any larger modular building.
  • Climate-control systems to create a comfortable, controllable working environment - all year round.
  1. Solutions to suit all budgets and timeframes

    It’s easy to get the buildings you need, when you choose Portakabin. We provide flexible solutions tailored to your budget, timescale and operational requirements. 

     This makes modular school laboratories ideal for schools needing additional science teaching space quickly, whether due to increasing student numbers,building refurbishments or expanding STEM programmes. 

    Whether you want the total financial flexibility of hiring, the permanence of buying newly manufactured or you want the added sustainability of a pre-owned refurbished Portakabin building, there’s an option to suit you. 

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  2. Much more than a building

    From concept to completion and beyond – there’s a specialist behind every stage of your project.

    With a truly 360˚ service from Portakabin, rest assured that there’s a team of modular experts managing every stage of your project and your modular laboratory's lifecycle.

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