The Pod Company will design, manufacture, deliver and install offsite manufactured bathroom pods as a full turn-key bathroom solution, consisting of floor, walls, ceiling, with all internal finishes 100 % complete.
A pre-engineered bathroom pod is a bathroom built off site, designed bespoke to each different project to suit the building and specification to the request of the client, architect and/or main contractor.
The bathroom pod can be anything from a simple low end housing project, with simple 100x100 mm ceramics tiles on the wall to complicated 5 star hotels with marble or granite floors and walls, walk in showers with glass enclosures, glass wall claddinga, free standing baths etc. The more complex and requirement to detail, the more beneficial it is to build in a factory controlled environment compared to building it on site, but especially in the GCC market both segments has proven to benefit from the offsite solution.
The floors are all cast in concrete, with the option to cast all drainage in the floor and therefore save considerable MEP works and co-ordination of these works on site. Floors are waterproofed and tiled, the walls and ceiling are added and the box is assembled. The walls which can be precast concrete or lightweight steel and gypsum plasterboard, are waterproofed and tiled, plumbing and electrical is carried out, and the bathroom is fitted out with toilets, bath, shower screen, mirror, brassware etc. The complete turnkey finished bathroom is fully tested and ready for simple on site connection to the mains like, water, drainage and power. The pods are loaded onto a truck or into a container if they are being shipped to Europe or India, driven to site and lifted directly into place from the top or
lifted onto a platform on the side of the building and pushed into place, by our experienced installation team.
The Pod Company is a newly company under the umbrella of the well-established Speed House Group of Companies, already dealing with offsite construction of light weight steel houses, production of GRC as well as building material supply for the UAE market.
The Pod Company is established as a partnership between a team of well experienced and technically strong people with up to 25 years experience with pre-engineered bathroom pods, in Europe and 5 years in the UAE, and the above mentioned building contracting company Speed House in Ajman. Within the teamwe have estimated, designed, project managed and installed bathroom pods into hotels, universities, villas and high rise commercial and residential buildings, and we are dedicated to find best the functional and esthetic solution for each bespoke project, should that be a 5 star hotel room or a student accommodation solution to a given branded specification or suggested by our design team with a wide program from some of our good suppliers on the market.
Pre-engineered bathroom pods have successfully been used as a crucial part of the modern building industry in Europe using offsite construction for more than 40 years, and it is rare that a project with a repetitive number of bathrooms is built without using bathroom pods.
The fascinating developing construction market in the Middle East, is also getting familiar with the benefits that pods provide such as speed, quality, consistency, control of budget, less snagging, and thousands of pods has already been installed in hotels, villas and universities in UAE, KSA, Qatar and India. The bigger scale and size of projects here will benefit even more than the European market from offsite construction, and after only a few years the market has already established some good repetitive customers that will be wanting to use pods on the projects where it is possible.
