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There’s a great chance you’ve slept with this Gold Coast firm


From holiday parks to eco retreats and wineries, meet the masterminds behind ModnPods.

G’DAY Parks, Big 4 Holiday Parks, NRMA Parks and also Resorts, Discovery Parks, Tasman Holiday Parks, Reflections Holiday Parks, Breeze Holiday Parks and Ingenia Holiday Parks … if you’ve remained at one of these tourist products, you’ve jumped into bed with ModnPods without even knowing it.

This growing Gold Coast business released its very first facility in Arundel in 2015, offering a modular building remedy with its modern shucks, mostly focused on the tourist industry.

Currently, they’ve relocated into a brand-new center at Arundel which will enable them to go from making 20 hulls annually to 200, as well as which will likewise include a social housing aspect.

ModnPods Arundel manufacturing facility.”We make modern-day real estate remedies for a variety of customer needs mostly in vacation parks and short-term holiday accommodation centers with to deluxe retreats, and that option likewise suits housing affordability and social housing, currently for public servant housing,” Executive Chair & & Managing Director Stuart Giles said.

“The creator was originally curious about the little house activity as well as started converting delivery containers yet concerned the view it was not eco-friendly since a shipping container has a filthy impact.

“He started building on a bespoke, one-by-one property basis. What truly emerged was with real estate affordability issues and scarcities of tradies and also labour as well as the supply chain, the chance to consider manufacturing on a bigger scale emerged.

“We’re really confident these very early jobs are the beginning of playing an actually considerable duty in real estate affordability moving forward.”

Utilising funding from the Queensland Investment Commission, the company was able to move in June this year to their new manufacturing facility around 6200 square metres– or the dimension of a football area.

A City of Gold Coast Investment Attraction Program give linked to task development will see present team expand from 50 to more than 75 by the end of this financial year.

Shucks, which range in cost from $150,000 to $300,000, are architecturally designed internal and built from 90 per cent Australian-made materials and also items.

There’s currently six sorts of sheaths from the tiniest– The Point at 4.2 m x 3.2 m to the biggest The Bombie at 15.5 m x 4.2 m.

End-to-end service includes shop internal building designs; top-end specs to finish capsule fit out; sustainable and minimal upkeep item and products; and approximate 12-week lean production as well as turn-around time.

Other advantages include prefabrication in factory; no hidden costs; arrangements for case transportation and also installment Australia-wide; providing package choices; the safeguarding of Council approval and also supply of necessary accreditations.