Container offices, cabins, field storage, and climate-controlled workspaces, built on the frame of a steel shipping container and delivered anywhere in Pennsylvania.
A modified shipping container starts with the same Corten steel ISO structure, the most durable weatherproof portable structure available, and adds the features that turn it into a functional space. Personnel doors, windows, insulation, electrical, HVAC, custom paint, shelving, flooring: modifications can be as simple or as comprehensive as the project requires. The base unit can be ordered in different grades. See our container condition guide, and our rent vs buy guide if you are weighing how to pay for it.
In Pennsylvania, modified containers serve a wide range of purposes. Construction companies need quick-deploy job site offices. Farm and acreage owners need lockable, weather-resistant equipment rooms. Rural property owners want a cabin base that holds up outdoors. Businesses want branded field offices that can be moved between sites.
Tell us what you need the container to do and where you need to put it. We will help you find the right starting unit and the right configuration for your property and budget.
We can source containers with a wide range of factory and custom modifications. Describe the project and we will match you with the right options.
Infill construction across the river wards and fit-out work on the hospital and university campuses run near-continuously, and both need secure space that sits on the site rather than in rented space across the river. The planning question here is never the container, it is the approach: street width, whether there is a service alley behind the row, and the clear height above the drop spot. We work all three out before anything is cut.
Level, compacted, built for trucks. The distribution yards along Interstate 78 and Pennsylvania 33 are the simplest modified sets in the state, and the constraint is usually fire lanes, trailer circulation and where the approved site plan allows a structure. Raise site history early if the unit is staying, because the Great Valley floor is carbonate rock close under the soil.
Slope decides everything here. A great many lots have a street too steep for a loaded truck to stop on, a garage cut under the house, and the only level ground somewhere other than where you want the unit. Old industrial ground and slag drives are the opposite and are among the easiest sites in the region. Parcels over old mine workings are worth a conversation before a set, and the Department of Environmental Protection mapping application answers that in minutes.
Two very different surfaces sit side by side up here. Gas pad access roads are built wide and firm and are some of the best ground we get anywhere. Camp roads are often single lane, often gated, and frequently signed as not maintained for winter travel. Tell us which one the last half mile is, and whether the township has the road posted for weight, and we will plan the delivery around the thaw rather than argue with it.
Describe the intended use, the property location, any access constraints, the timeline, and the budget range. The more detail you share, the better we can match you to the right container and configuration.
We recommend the base container, size and grade, the modifications that suit the use case, and give you an all-in price including delivery to your Pennsylvania address.
Once the order is confirmed, modifications are completed before delivery. Lead time on a modified container runs longer than a standard unit, typically 2 to 4 weeks depending on scope and the current build schedule.
The finished container arrives on a tilt-bed truck, the same as a standard delivery, ready to use or close to it depending on the configuration.
The more detail you share, the better we can help. Modified containers are priced by project, so there is no standard price list.
Modified containers are priced by project, so there is no standard price list. Tell us what you need it to do and where it needs to go.