Locker Room Design: Providing the Best for Your Workers

Well-kept locker rooms help maintain a comfortable and enjoyable work environment. A designated space to secure personal belongings, change, and prepare for the workday ahead helps maintain and often even improve productivity. Certainly, locker room design plays a large role in ensuring the space meets your company’s needs.

Key Features of Shipping Container Locker Room Design

Before designing your locker room, consider what it is you’re looking for from the locker room layout. To create the best space possible, you’ll need to consider the following items:

• Lockers
• Air conditioning and insulation
• Lighting
• Durable flooring
• Privacy windows for natural light
• Electrical connections

For locker rooms with bathrooms, you’ll also need:

• Bathroom stalls
• Sinks
• Showers
• Water heater

Ultimately, this list will ensure your locker room will properly accommodate your workers, giving them a comfortable space to make the most of their workday.

Shipping Container Locker Room Benefits

Why consider a modified shipping container locker room? Because containers are durable, mobile, secure, easily accessible, and comfortable. For example, this 40-foot shipping container locker room design comes with all the necessities previously stated and makes placement and installation easy. Here’s a brief breakdown of the unit’s features:

• Wood paneling over batt insulation
• Four privacy windows
• An exterior personnel door with a security light
• An interior door
• Vinyl coin flooring throughout 
• Standard light fixtures 
• Air conditioning and heating
• Exterior plumbing drain connections
• One electric tankless water heater
• Two shower stalls
• Two toilets with stalls
• Two sink vanities with mirrors
• Two ventilation fans
• Two partition walls

Locker Room Design Customization Options

If you’re looking to get more custom in your locker room design, shipping containers are still a great solution. Manufacturing teams can cut and weld containers to add additional doors, windows, and even combine multiple containers together to create a larger space – giving you vast customization options. Maybe you want an additional bathroom stall or even a double-wide space to accommodate more employees, check out common shipping container modifications here. If you're interested in more ways a locker room can benefit your employees, check out our blog “How Industrial Lockers for Workers Boost Morale in Remote Areas.”

When you begin to plan your locker room space, don’t hesitate to reach out to a shipping container expert here at Falcon. We’re happy to collaborate with you on your design and make suggestions based on your specific location, jobsite, and ideas. Give us a call at  877-704-0177 or email at Sales@FalconStructures.com to get connected.