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Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 A GC awarded a data center project doesn't have the luxury of a slow ramp. Mobilization windows are tight, crew counts scale into the thousands, and a housing provider who can't match that pace becomes the bottleneck on someone else's critical path. The question we get most from GCs and developers evaluating Base Camp by Boma isn't "can you build a nice unit" — the site and the concept package answer that. It's

Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 7 min | Updated: July 2026 Every workforce housing provider will tell you their camp is fast, scalable, and worker-friendly. Most of them are describing the same dormitory-trailer product with different paint colors. So what actually makes Base Camp by Boma a genuine man camp alternative — beyond marketing language? We built Base Camp by Boma by asking a different starting question than most man camp providers ask. Instead of "how do we

Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 For decades, the man camp procurement conversation was almost entirely about cost per bed. Lowest bidder wins, crews get bunked two to a room in a dormitory trailer, and the housing line item disappears into the broader project budget. That conversation is changing. On today's data center builds, the question GCs and developers are increasingly asking isn't "what's the cheapest way to house 1,000 workers?" It'

Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: July 2026 The AI data center boom has a bottleneck that has nothing to do with power, chips, or permits: it's where to put the thousands of construction workers needed to build each campus. Across the country, data center workforce housing has quietly become one of the fastest-growing categories in construction — and the old "man camp" is being rebuilt from the ground up to meet it. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates that

Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: June 2026 You’ve chosen your model. You’ve confirmed your zoning. Now comes one of the most important — and most overlooked — parts of the container home process: preparing your land. Site preparation is the buyer’s responsibility, and how well you plan it directly affects your timeline, your budget, and how smoothly delivery day goes. Done right, site prep is straightforward. Done wrong, it can cause costly delays. This g

Author: Boma Properties | Read Time: 6 min | Updated: May 2026 A permitted Boma container home in Taos, New Mexico — concrete pier foundation, gravel access road, and mountain views included. Zoning and permits are the part of the container home process that most buyers underestimate — and occasionally the part that catches them off guard. The good news: in most parts of the United States, placing a shipping container home on your land is entirely possible. The key is knowing