Innovating Classroom Space With Modular Construction

Portable Classrooms: Where Modular Construction Meets Education

Portable classrooms are modular buildings by nature, as they are built using the modular construction process. This means that portable classrooms inherently offer the same benefits and advantages that modular construction brings to the table.

Portables, through modular construction, are helping to innovate the learning experience of educational facilities across Ontario by changing the way we think about creating comfortable, convenient, and durable classrooms at every level.

If you'd like to learn more about the modular construction process and how it helps enhance your facility's classroom space, you're in the right place.

What is Modular Construction?

Benefits and Advantages

Superior Safety

All modular buildings are designed, engineered, and fabricated to meet the same stringent building codes and safety standards as traditionally built structures. Because they’re built in sections, buildings undergo structural inspections and rigorous quality control checks throughout the construction process. Additional inspections are also performed on-site during installation to further verify each building's structural integrity.

High-Quality Standard

Modular buildings are built using the same high-quality materials and professional finishes as traditionally constructed buildings. The indoor manufacturing process provides additional material quality control, ensuring their integrity. The majority of modular buildings, including portables, are designed and manufactured to be functionally and aesthetically indistinguishable from conventionally built spaces, and come fully equipped with modern amenities and comforts like climate-control.

Cost Effectiveness and Sustainability

The cost-effective benefits of modular construction go hand-in-hand with its sustainability. Because buildings are fabricated indoors, materials are protected from the environmental and weather-related damage that commonly occurs on traditional construction sites. This minimizes material waste and maximizes efficient material usage across each stage of production, resulting in a lower overall cost in raw materials.

An inherent benefit of modular buildings, including portables, is their ability to be reused. When a modular space is no longer needed, it is removed, repurposed, relocated, and used once more. The inspection and refurbishment process for modular buildings can be so efficient that, given the proper attention, buildings can be brought back to near brand-new condition in time for reuse.

Due to the fact that construction occurs off-site, the rapid installation of a modular building causes minimal disturbances to the surrounding environment. In turn, this reduces noise pollution, site wear and tear, and site cleanup.