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Construction of Mobile Toilets

Admin September 20, 2026

The construction of mobile toilets is aimed at meeting the toilet needs of the public and customers in fixed or temporary locations, and involves the creation of facilities that can be moved as a whole. The following provides an introduction from aspects such as composition, classification, advantages, design principles, and examples:

Composition: Mobile toilets are generally composed of fecal sewage storage tanks (or fecal sewage treatment devices), floor slabs, sanitary ware, walls, washing equipment, water tanks, roofs, and mobile devices. For the exterior material, metal carved panels can be selected, with a steel structure frame welded for sturdiness and durability, suitable for year-round outdoor use.

Classification:

  • By structural form: They are divided into single-structure mobile toilets and composite-structure mobile toilets.
  • By mobility method: They are divided into hoisting and handling-type mobile toilets, and powered and towed-type mobile toilets.
  • By sewage treatment method: They are divided into water-flush and waterless suction-type mobile toilets, circulating water-flush mobile toilets, and dry-packing mobile toilets.

Advantages: They have the characteristics of being movable, combinable, and easy to transport, allowing them to be conveniently carried to any location where toilets need to be installed and can be used repeatedly.

Design principles: They should adhere to the principles of mobility and convenience, economic durability; environmental protection and ecological friendliness, beneficial to the environment; improving efficiency, and promoting humanity. The overall structure should consider being lightweight, using lightweight and durable materials as much as possible while ensuring structural sturdiness; the height and width of the toilets should also be controlled during design; and the mobile devices should be fully considered for completeness and rationality.

Examples: The classic mobile toilet has four squatting positions, with a public washing area set up in the middle area, and independent squatting positions equipped with urinals in the toilet compartments. In Huaxin Town, Qingpu District, two newly built mobile prefabricated public toilets have a unified exterior appearance, a simple and大气 (which can be translated as 'grand' or 'elegant' depending on context, here we use 'grand') overall style, and a two-story design. The interior layout is reasonable and the facilities are complete, with an emphasis on increasing the proportion of female toilet positions. They are equipped with a third toilet, smart displays, seats, wheelchairs, canes, and other convenience facilities, and have installed a smart public toilet system. They are also equipped with sanitation duty rooms. The newly built public toilets in the industrial park have also created a driver's lounge based on the needs of surrounding truck drivers. In addition, some companies, such as Shanghai Guyi Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., can provide customers with a series of services from on-site measurement, scheme design optimization, production and processing, transportation and installation, to after-sales maintenance based on the customer's on-site installation environment, product usage functions, and customized corporate cultural core as design elements.