Remote Temporary Construction Facilities

Don’t Forget the Utilities

We know the importance of having a fully functioning and reliable facility. Our typical utility package includes water, power, and septic/wastewater. Beyond these options, Temporary 123 provides our guests with fast internet and dependable cell phone service, allowing them to feel at home, at ease, and connected to the world and their loved ones. 

Temporary 123 will manage, monitor, and track, budgets, and schedules, with complete turnkey service, permitting, rentals, security, and hospitality. We also offer military and deployable assets.

Remote challenges with utilities

More times than not, Temporary 123 gets requests to build remote temporary construction facilities in harsh environmental locations. This presents unique challenges in providing utilities. It’s rare that systems like high-line power, culinary water, or city sewer systems are available. In fact, it’s quite the opposite that’s true. We often find ourselves drilling test holes to determine the best locations for water wells, storage tanks, etc. Or, in the case of sewers, we have to test the percolation rates of the native soil to determine whether an underground leach field, mobile treatment plant, or evaporation pond is better suited for the project. Finally, we often run our own power, overhead or underground, while utilizing generators on the front end to service electricity needs on a temporary basis.

Temporary 123 will manage, monitor, and track, budgets, and schedules, with complete turnkey service, permitting, rentals, security, and hospitality. We also offer military and deployable assets.

These processes take time and cooperation from local and state governments, permitting entities, and you, the client. But they are essential to review at the beginning of the project because these costs can equal 15-20% of the total budget for a project. However, if done right, they will be an ongoing asset to the infrastructure of the local community for years to come. Temporary 123 has learned a lot along the way and looks forward to sharing those tricks of the trade with you to avoid pitfalls in putting in utilities and then incorporating them into the base camp design and emergency response services project. 

Part of the process of designing the utilities is determining the exact connection points and capacities before the project has even begun. In doing this pre-planning we have realized that costly rework can be avoided. Imaging, mapping out, and designing as much as possible what these systems will look like before installation, will save valuable time and resources.