Developments/Industrial/Workforce accommodation
A village, not a camp.
Sleeping rooms, ablutions, kitchens and recreation buildings cast, fitted and inspected in the factory from one module family — permanent concrete accommodation that is still in good condition when the operation is in its second decade.
- Storeys
- 1–3
- Sleeping room
- 20m²
- Building types
- 4
- Module family
- 1
01The model
An operation runs for decades. Its accommodation should too.
Temporary camps are bought for the construction phase and then lived in for the life of the mine. Workforce accommodation is a repeating room — which is what volumetric precast casts best — so a village can be built as a single production run: residence blocks, ablutions, kitchens and recreation buildings with one finish specification and one inspection regime, in a material that does not tire.
Village layout, bed count, phasing and amenities are set by the operation and its workforce plan. The room, the wet core and the structural grid do not change with them.
Residence blocks around a dining hall, sports court and shaded parking
The village
One room, engineered once — then repeated for every bed the operation needs.
Up to
3
Storeys
Single-storey amenity buildings to three-storey residence blocks on the same grid.
20m²
Sleeping room
One standard module — 6.05 × 3.25 m on plan, a private room with bed, desk and full-height wardrobe.
98m²
Dining hall bay
Five standard modules side by side — 6.05 × 16.25 m, a column-free hall that grows by whole modules.
4
Building types
Residence blocks, ablutions and laundries, kitchens and dining, recreation — from one module family and one finish specification.
Areas and dimensions are indicative and confirmed at design freeze for each village. Bed count, storey count, amenities and village layout are set per operation.
02Where this model sits
A place to live, not a camp at the edge.
Staff and workforce housing belongs inside the community it serves. In a Precast Africa integrated precinct, residence blocks for the people who run the place sit within the apartment band, sharing its courtyards and civic ground.
Zone 04
Apartment precinct
Multi-storey blocks around shared courtyards — the densest residential band, placed closest to the civic ground.
In a precinct, this model delivers staff residence blocks within the apartment band. The built zones below are the community planned around it.
01
Security gate precinct
Controlled entry at the precinct boundary.
02
Full-title homes
Detached homes on their own stands.
03
Townhouses
Rows of homes along shared courts.
04 · This model
Apartment precinct
Multi-storey blocks around courtyards.
05
Mixed-use centre
Shops, offices and homes around a square.
06
Civic & recreation
School, clinic, sport and the shared lawn.
03Building types
Four buildings. One village.
Each building is a different arrangement of the same modules — so a village can add a block of rooms or a second dining hall as the workforce grows, without new engineering.
Specify the village the workforce plan needs. Residence blocks carry the rooms, wet-core modules take the ablutions and laundries, and dining and recreation halls are standard modules set side by side. All share one grid and one finish, so the production line does not change as the village grows.
Renders are computer-generated visualisations — illustrative and not dimensionally binding.
Module bills, room areas and finishes are confirmed at design freeze. Building mix, bed count and village layout are set per operation.
04Specification
The brief, and the modules that build it.
Every figure below is a module count on one structural grid — fixed at design freeze, so what the drawing shows is what the factory produces.
- Typology
- Permanent workforce villages
- Storeys
- Single to three storeys
- Area
- 20 m² per sleeping room
- Accommodation
- Sleeping rooms, ablutions, kitchens, recreation
- Modules
- 1 module per sleeping room
- Structure
- Volumetric precast concrete
Module bill — one level of a ten-room residence block
| Module | Qty | L × W × H |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Module | 10 | 6.05 × 3.25 × 3.035 m |
| Wet-Core Module | 2 | 6.05 × 3.25 × 3.035 m |
| Total | 12 | modules per one level of a ten-room residence block |
05Factory finish
Fitted in the factory, inspected before it reaches site.
Joinery, wardrobes, lighting, flooring and wet areas are installed indoors, so a room arrives ready for a mattress rather than for trades — however remote the site.
Sleeping room
One standard module
Dining hall
Servery kitchen · clerestory light
Stair core
Arrival and vertical circulation
The block
Walkway access on every level
Village
Blocks, hall, court and parking
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06Built for the life of the operation
What workforce accommodation has to get right.
A village is judged twice — when the first shift moves in, and years later when it is still housing people. Mining houses have paid for camps that pass the first test and fail the second. The system is organised around both.
01
Condition that lasts
Concrete does not rack, delaminate or rust through. Rooms hold their condition across the full life of an operation instead of being refurbished or replaced mid-way.
02
Built for remote sites
Rooms are finished in the factory and arrive complete, so the work that has to happen at a remote site is foundations, placement and connections — not every trade a building needs.
03
Rest between shifts
Dense walls and floors keep a neighbour's alarm or a returning shift out of the next room, and thermal mass evens out the day's heat for people who sleep through it.
04
Grows with the workforce
A further residence block or hall is the same modules on the same grid, so a village can be phased with the operation rather than built for its peak on day one.
07Delivery scope
What arrives complete, and what the village decides.
Each building is delivered finished — structure, services, fittings and finishes installed and signed off in the factory. Everything beyond the building is a village-level decision the model is engineered to accept.
- Private sleeping rooms
- Factory-tested ablutions
- Laundries & kitchens
- Dining & recreation halls
- Dense, quiet walls
- Life-of-operation finishes
- Covered walkway access
- Solar-ready roofs
- Rainwater provision
- Data-ready service routing
- Access-controlled village
- Shaded parking
Module bills, typical block and room plans and the finish specification are issued on request, with a phased delivery programme built against your workforce plan. Tell us the operation and we will price the model against it.
Discuss a villageNext step
Specify the village.
Send us the site, the bed count and how the workforce will grow. We will come back with a building mix, a village layout and a phased delivery schedule you can take to an operations committee or a board.
Discuss a projectComputer-generated visualisations, illustrative only. Plans are indicative and not dimensionally binding. Module bills, room areas, finishes and programme are confirmed at design freeze for each village and are subject to statutory approvals and the applicable accommodation standards. Delivered-project evidence is issued as a dated annexure.