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Construction trailers are mobile structures used to accommodate temporary offices, dining facilities and storage of building materials during construction projects.
Typically, trailers need to be equipped with telephone lines and electrical power. Lavatories are usually provided for separately. They are often skid-mounted, on trailers, or put on piles. Construction trailers are often manufactured using traditional stick-frame construction. Intermodal containers are also being converted into construction trailers.
Municipalities can require the use of construction trailers to be subject to permit proceedings. The City of Fremont, California, for example, publishes its permit requirements on its municipal website.[1]
There are people in Germany who live in trailers of this type, and in German there is a word for a congregation of these trailers, Bauwagenplatz.
In 2008 Norwegian media reported that two construction sites (of Byggmester Harald Langemyhr AS) had been housing Polish workers in constructiction trailers — 4 workers in each.[2]