Multi-year restroom service for large data center and semiconductor builds, sized to the crew and changed as each build phase begins.
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On a data center or chip plant build, the restroom count follows the crew on site, and the site may need units for years rather than weeks. A technician sets the count from the phase plan, places the units on firm ground, and changes the count at each phase. The price is explained and approved before work starts.
Some of the largest construction projects in the Columbus area are data centers and a semiconductor campus in the New Albany business park. A site like that is not a short job. Foundations go down over many months, steel goes up, and interior fit-out runs long after the shell is closed in. For most of that time the building has no working plumbing for the people inside it, so the portable units are the only restroom on the site from the first crew to the last.
The number of units and the service interval both move with the phase of work. Excavation and foundations bring large crews and heavy equipment. Once the building is enclosed the core crew may shrink, but mechanical, electrical and specialty trades arrive in waves that can be larger than the core crew. A technician reviews the schedule with the site lead and changes the count at each phase, instead of leaving one arrangement in place for years.
This page covers how a multi-year restroom plan is put together for a large project in the New Albany area, what the federal construction rule requires for toilet counts, and how servicing is arranged on a site that runs for years. The construction-site guide goes into the OSHA tiers in more detail, and the long-term rental guide explains how the term and the service interval work together.
Do not stack, move or level a portable unit yourself on a construction site, and do not stand a unit beside an open trench or the edge of an excavation. A full unit that leans or has a cracked wall should be taken out of use until a technician has seen it. Keep hoses and pump lines out of the path of heavy equipment, since a crushed line can spill. Electrical and gas hazards on an active build are for the site's own trades to manage, and a restroom unit is not a place to store anything.
The technician asks for the phase schedule, the expected crew count for each phase and the date the building will be enclosed. Those three facts set how many units the site needs first and how many it needs later. A plan written for the foundation phase is usually wrong by the time interior fit-out starts, so the count is revisited at each phase rather than fixed once at the start.
Standard units suit most trades on a build site. Accessible units are placed where the federal guidance calls for them, and the construction-site exemption covers units used only by construction personnel. Flushing trailers with sinks are added where a crew needs running water for washing, or where a long shift makes handwashing at a fixed station the better fit.
Units sit on firm, level ground that a service truck can reach in any weather. On a graded pad the technician keeps units back from the edge of excavations and out of the path of heavy equipment, and avoids loose fill that can settle under a loaded unit. The access route for emptying stays clear of stacked materials, since a blocked route means a missed pump-out.
Servicing frequency follows the number of users and the season. A unit on a large crew fills faster than a unit on a small one, and in cold months frozen waste is harder to pump, so the interval often shortens. The schedule is written down with the site contact and changed in writing when the crew size changes.
At each phase change the technician walks the site with the lead, checks every unit, and moves, adds or removes units to match the new crew. Service dates are sent to the site contact, and any unit that is not performing is replaced rather than patched on the spot. The record of the changes becomes the basis for the next phase.
The minimum is set by the number of workers on the site, using the OSHA tiers for construction. A large crew needs more than the minimum for comfort, for queueing at peak times and for the service interval.
Under 29 CFR 1926.51(c), a construction site needs at least one toilet facility for twenty or fewer workers, and above that a toilet seat and a urinal for each forty workers under the table. The rule also requires that at least one facility be available under temporary field conditions. The widely repeated line that a site needs one toilet per twenty workers is a rental-company paraphrase of the one-facility floor, not the table itself.
On a large campus the count is the peak number of workers on a shift, not the daily average. A technician asks the site lead for the peak and plans units for it, then allows for the hours when a unit is full and waiting for service. The count is written into the plan for each phase, so the next crew does not inherit a number that was set for a smaller build.
Portable toilets used only by construction personnel fall outside the federal accessibility guidance for public-use units, and the exemption is stated in that guidance.
Federal guidance quoted by the Justice Department and the Access Board says that where single-user portable units are clustered for public use, at least 5 percent, and never fewer than one per cluster, must be accessible. The same guidance says that portable toilets used at construction sites exclusively by construction personnel are fully exempt. The guidance is federal, not a Columbus rule, and the Justice Department letter it quotes is not a binding legal interpretation.
The price is explained and approved before work starts. It moves with the size of the crew, the length of the rental, how often the units are serviced and how hard the site is to reach.
The main drivers on a large build are the number of units, the rental term, the service interval, and the number of times the units are moved between phases. Each move is a truck visit, and each added unit adds a service stop. The condition of the access route, the size of the site, the age of the building's permanent facilities and whether accessible units are needed all change the scope of the work.
No figure is published on this page. The technician sets out the count, the term and the service schedule with the site contact, and the local provider quotes the job from that plan. Nothing starts until the quote has been explained and approved.
Only a septage hauler registered in the jurisdiction where the unit sits may pump the contents, and the pumping is arranged in writing before the first visit.
Portable-toilet contents are treated as sewage and septage in Ohio. Ohio Administrative Code 3701-29-20 sets the duties for the hauler that pumps and removes them, and 3701-29-18 places the duty on the owner to have a unit emptied by a registered septage hauler before its capacity is exceeded. Registration is local, so a hauler registered in one place is not automatically registered in another.
On a long build the pumping plan is written down: the hauler, the interval, the access route and the dates. The servicing and pumping page sets out what is recorded and where it goes.
A build that runs two or three years needs a rental term that covers the whole schedule. Units are serviced on a fixed interval and exchanged when they wear, so the arrangement is set by the term and the service frequency rather than by a single delivery. The agreement is reviewed at each phase, and the count is lowered when the site's permanent facilities are ready for use.
Once the building is closed in, the crew moves indoors and the restroom need shifts to the interior. Portable units can stay outside the enclosed area until the building's permanent plumbing is working, and when it is the portable count can come down. Interior work often has its own peak days, so the technician checks the fit-out schedule before the outdoor count is cut.
Electrical, mechanical and specialty trades often arrive in waves that are larger than the core crew. A technician plans a temporary addition for those weeks and removes it afterward, rather than buying the peak for the whole build. The OSHA tiers count every worker on the site at one time, so a surge is counted just like the steady crew.
New Albany is one of the main places this work is happening. The business park has a Licking County side, and placement there is planned from the same phase schedule and crew count as anywhere else in the area. The New Albany area page covers the city itself, and the Licking County side is handled through the registration that applies to that place.
Reports on the campuses are secondary and they change as the projects move. One campus is converting an existing building of about 524,524 square feet, with phase one completion reported for April 2026, and adding a new building of about 700,000 square feet plus an energy center of about 80,000 square feet, with substantial completion targeted for the third quarter of 2027. Those square footages come from trackers and summaries, so read them as indicative and plan the restroom count from the site's own schedule.
As of February 2025 reporting, construction of the first chip fab in New Albany was expected to finish in 2030, with operations between 2030 and 2031, and the second fab's construction was expected in 2031 with operations in 2032. Groundbreaking was in 2022, and the pace was described as deliberately slower with room to speed up. A timeline that long means the restroom plan is revised at each phase, and the warehouse and industrial page covers the similar multi-year work on the Rickenbacker belt.
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Job-site portable toilets sized to crew count under OSHA's construction toilet rules, with placement set for the build.
Portable toilets for warehouse and industrial sites, sized to large crews and placed clear of the dock and truck-yard areas.
Multi-month and multi-year portable toilet rental for construction and industrial sites, with the service interval set around the term.
How portable toilets are serviced, and why only a locally registered septage hauler may pump them in Ohio.
For as long as the building is under construction, which can be years on a large campus. The term is set from the phase schedule and reviewed at each phase. A shorter term can cover the early foundation work, but the full schedule should be shared before the term is set, so the units are not removed too soon or kept too long.
A temporary addition is set for the surge weeks and removed afterward. The technician confirms the dates in advance, places the extra units where the surge crew will work, and changes the service interval for the added units so they are not left to fill unchecked.
The site lead and the technician agree the spot together, after a walk of the ground. The spot is written down with the access route, and any change goes through the same walk before the unit is moved.
Call the provider and note the date. A unit that is not serviced when the schedule calls for it should be replaced rather than patched. Ask which registered hauler is responsible for the pumping, so the missed visit can be traced to the hauler's records.