Shower Rooms Dominate 50% of Prefabricated Pod Market Size

Shower-room pods account for the largest share of the prefabricated pod market size at 50% by volume in 2020.

There is also a growing trend towards having ensuite ‘wetroom’ pods in care homes as well as in more up-market apartment buildings, and student accommodation.

Read our 2022 assessments of the bathroom and kitchen prefabricated pod market size here.

While the main area of demand has originated from the budget hotel sector, shower room pods are used in the construction of 4 and 5-star hotels. Many well-known hotel chains specify their use.

The healthcare sector including care homes opt for shower pods during the planning and construction phases. The speed, ease, and costs of pods are great benefits to the increase of aging UK population.

Prefabricated Pod Market Size for 2020

We expect the shower room and wetroom pods sector of the market to continue to grow in the long term.

This is down to several factors:

• Expansions of offsite construction
• Need for new housing
• Budget restraints

During the time this article was published in 2020, Covid-19 had considerable impact on the construction industry.

A quote taken straight from our previous Covid-19 briefing states:

“Some construction companies continue to report all sites remaining closed, to others reporting a large variation in the proportion of sites open, to a few companies stating that all their sites remaining open.

Over the course of the week many of the major house builders have announced a reopening of sites, we expect this to continue to increase over the coming weeks.

Health and safety concerns remain in London especially due to the need to use public transport to travel to work and the difficulties working in more close quarters in urban areas.”