More Rooms Now. Maccom is the one-stop-shop solution to your extra space needs at an affordable price and in remarkable time. At Maccom we focus on your needs.  From experience we know that you need rooms and you need them fast.   We know you have heard about portable buildings but are unsure if they [...]

Maccom are a Department of Education approved supplier of Prefabricated Accommodation. We have over the last number of years supplied all levels of Education from Pre-School/National School to Post Primary/Third Level. Our proven track record and our experienced personnel will enable you to relax in the knowledge that your new accommodation is in safe hands. [...]

Maccom Anti-Vandal – designed with security in mind These units are very popular as they give you the comfort of a Portable Building on the inside with lights, heating, power .  points and a separate ELCB, while on the outside give you that ‘Safe Space’ feel as they are well protected and have special security [...]

Maccom Jackleg – versatile accommodation JL or Jack Leg cabins are a very real alternative for use as an Office. They are fully ’self contained’ and have heating, lighting and sockets in built as well as having a very pleasant inside and comfortable feel to them with a plasterboard or vinyl covered interior. The legs [...]

We have a large selection of used cabins and portable buildings. 10′x 10′ Cabin Unit Standard Jack Leg with Grille These are the main units that are requested and the sizes are typically for a one or two person office from 10′x10′, 12′x10′. The three person size is 16′x10, 20′x10′, and then for four or [...]

Planning permission was rejected for a Metro North station with a large park-and-ride facility at Belinstown last week. While planning permission was approved for the St Stephen’s Green to Swords line the decision to reject planning permission for the Belinstown station has left one of the two final bidders on the project Metro Express considering pulling [...]

Over the next five years Spanish company Lookotels is planning to build 10 prefab hotels throughout Spain and Europe. Each energy-efficient hotel will be prefabricated with up to 100 rooms each of which will have a sofa bed, TV, desk, chair, telephone, bathroom, automatic controls, and wifi. The hotels will be well insulated, controlled with [...]

Earlier this year, Clare County Council granted planning permission to Harbour Flights Ireland Ltd for a seaplane base at Mountshannon. The Mountshannon base formed part of a number of stops for the company along the west of Ireland. However, An Taisce, the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board (Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)), local anglers and residents appealed [...]

A prefab hospital has been built by the organisation, ‘Doctors Without Borders’ in the town of Léogâne in Haiti.  The prefab hospital was completed in five months and was inaugurated on October 8.  The town of Léogâne  was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January.  Following the earthquake, Doctors Without [...]

Mayo County Council have refused Hutchison 3G Ireland Limited planning permission to erect a Monopole with antennae, transmission dishes and associated works at Glennacally, Errif, Westport and a 20m monopole with antenna, transmission dishes, equipment fencing, upgrading of access track and ancillary works at Churchfield Upper, Tourmakeady.  These two antennae were to be part of [...]

A German company has come up with this design for a prefab treehouse. The design is a collaborative effort between “an architect, a landscape architect, an arbologist, and a craftsman.” The structure was prefabricated off-site then installed into the tree. While not intended as primary accommodation the idea was to provide an interesting guest room [...]

. . . . Could this be the future of the modular building? An Australian company, Skylifter, are developing a new way to move prefabricated buildings using a 150 meter-wide disc shaped helium balloon. The Skylifter promises a payload of 150 tons and a range of 1240 miles. Its design provides for more stability – [...]