Aug 23, 2007

Used Modular Daycare Center Needed in Southern California

Looking for Modular Building in California 


Manufacturers, dealers and modular building owners Contact Matt Banes at (714) 402-7585 if you have any DOH or DSA modulars available for sale that have daycare center features in California. We have a need for approximately 6,000 square feet immediately.

Lead For Green Modular Building In Arizona

Attention to modular building providers in Arizona 


Just in at iModular.com is a lead for a 48'x60' modular office building needed in Phoenix, Arizona. The prospect is requesting a structure built using LEED certified products and construction methods. This will be a five year lease. The building must be ready for occupancy no later than December 2007.

Contact Matt Banes directly at (714) 402-7585 about this lead.

Aug 7, 2007

Modular Building Goes Green With Project Frog



High performance modular buildings provided by Project Frog


Read about this project and learn how a college selected Project Frog modular buildings because of the high performance and sustainable feature set. According to this article the school selected Project Frog because the modulars provide a safe and healthy learning environment that inspires creativity and fun. This is something that we haven't heard much about until the green Building movement found its way into the commercial modular building, mobile office and portable classroom industry.

See what you think by reading the full story here.

Aug 6, 2007

Review Modular Floor Plans Online & Sell More Modular Buildings

Use smart tools to showcase modular floor plans


I've been using GoToMeeting.com for a full year now and it's a great selling tool. I can share my screen with a client that is located anywhere in the world with a net connection. We review modular floor plans together, I use the highlight tool to point out specifics and change screens from the plan to my proposal. With every meeting I receive a conference call phone number and multiple people can attend.

Here at iModular.com we highly reccommend GoToMeeting.com. Click below for a free trial. That's how I found this tool.

GoToMeeting - Online Meetings Made Easy

Aug 2, 2007

City College of San Francisco Uses Modular Construction

San Francisco Modular Building News 


A new all-modular Child Development Center is under construction at City College of San Francisco. The project, built entirely out of Project Frog units, is scheduled to open before the start of school in the fall of 2007. Read the article

Jul 25, 2007

School Swapping Modulars To Save Time And Space


Old school modulars moved to churches and other places in need


Here at the Modular Maven we've been helping public and private schools remove unwanted or unneeded portable classrooms, school modulars and trailers and relocating them to schools and churches that need them. This service has helped hundreds of schools free up space for new construction through removing 24'x 40' or 24'x60' relocatable school modulars from their campuses that were once needed for classrooms, band rooms, science labs and offices. Other schools in need of space have been purchasing these units and paying minimal fees to have them installed, cleaned, tuned up and prepared for students and teachers.

"This service has helped save thousands of dollars in removal fees and gave our school district some great press as we helped a neighboring district with their space requirements," says one Southern California school facility manager. "We have three more portables being removed next week and two schools have placed requests to have them delivered," he added.

Schools should visit www.iModular.com to inquire about this service.

Jul 19, 2007

Williams Scotsman Makes Huge Move In Modular Business

What is new in Modular business


Williams Scotsman announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by the parent company of a French modular construction firm in a deal valued at $2.2 billion.

I just received this from the Baltimore Business Journal:

Baltimore-based Williams Scotsman, a modular business (NASDAQ: WLSC), which provides mobile storage containers and modular office structures to the construction industry, is fetching $1.24 billion in cash, or $28.25 per share, in the deal with Ristretto, the Luxembourg-based parent company of Algeco, considered a leader in the European space rental market.

2007 has been a huge year for the modular building industry.

Jun 26, 2007

LEED-level Modular Classroom First Of Its Kind During Green Building Boom

Green Modular Classroom better for kids, environment, school budgets

By: Dan Orzech, staff writer - Thursday, June 7, 2007

When school officials need more classroom space in a hurry, the environment may be the last thing on their minds. With the new SmartSpace Classroom – the nation's first environmentally-friendly Modular classroom – schools don't have to sacrifice sustainability to get new classroom space fast. Created by Cliff Cort, President of Triumph SmartSpace of Littleton, Massachusetts, the classroom can be installed in as little as five days.

SmartSpace is loaded with features to reduce energy use – and a school district's utility bills. The modular classroom includes a quiet, two-stage heating and cooling system, which is far more efficient than standard wall units, double-paned low-e windows, and a highly-insulated building envelope. It also features a reflective roof to cut air-conditioning costs, sun-tunnel skylights, and smart lighting sensors, which automatically dim the lights when the sun provides enough natural light, and turns them off when people leave. The result is a building which can deliver up to 50 percent energy savings over normal cost, according to the Harvard, Massachusetts-based Hickory Consortium, a sustainable building consultancy.

Read the full story at iGreenBuild.comby clicking here.

Jun 21, 2007

Fix HVAC Systems On Modular Classrooms With Emergency Repair Money Available to California Schools

Emergency Repair Program, funds available for Modular Classrooms


History: In 2000, a group of nearly 100 San Francisco County students filed a class action lawsuit against the State of California and state education agencies, including the California Department of Education (CDE), alleging that these agencies had failed to provide public school students with equal access to qualified teachers, instructional materials, and safe and decent school facilities. The Williams case, Eliezer Williams, et al., vs. State of California, et al., was settled in 2004. The state agreed to allocate millions of dollars to address the problem of securing qualified teachers and providing sufficient instructional materials. In addition, $800 million was set aside for facility improvements as overseen by the Emergency Repair Program (ERP). This means that offers for quality modular classrooms can be submitted.

Fast forward to September 29, 2006:Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 607 (chapter 704, Statutes of 2006) into law, converting the $800 million facilities ERP into a grant program that will allow schools to receive funds before conducting work under the ERP. This groundbreaking statute took effect January 1, 2007, making millions of dollars immediately available to eligible schools for facility repair projects that improve school safety.

HVAC and AB607:
Among the long list of school building repairs eligible for AB607 ERP funds is heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system repair and/or replacement. This has got to be welcome news for California school administrators and school building code officials who place a high level of importance on classroom indoor air quality, comfort and acoustics. School facility managers throughout the state should be relieved to know that they can finally fix or replace those old ineffective HVAC systems at no expense to their district.

Some of the most common HVAC problems California schools encounter were detailed in the "Study on Indoor Air Quality in Portable Classrooms" conducted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Department of Health Services (DHS). They found a great number of classrooms, both portable and conventional, that were not being properly ventilated. Some were capable of ventilating but were shut off by the teachers because they were too noisy. Others were also capable of ventilating but had been altered, in an effort to reduce energy use, to prevent any outside air circulating. Still more were identified as simply not capable of ventilating the classroom. All of these problems can lead to unhealthy indoor air quality, inadequate ventilation of classrooms according to CA Title 24 code, and poor classroom acoustics, all of which impair learning and make teaching more difficult.

AB607 ERP funds are readily available and can be applied for with a relatively simple application process can take as little as forty-eight hours from submission to approval by the state.  Compared to other state-funded maintenance programs AB607 ERP is remarkably user friendly. Therefor institutions interested in modular classrooms should have a quick look at the project at hand.

To learn more about AB607 ERP funds, please visit the web site.

No Snow Day - From the Modular Building Systems Case Study Archive

Read on how modular building systems saved the day


Joseph Devlin was happily enjoying the Sunday newspaper, sheltered from the mid-January morning, when his maintenance team called. A wing of Summit Country Dayschool had collapsed. Yes collapsed! Modular building systems provider Satellite Shelters came to the rescue in short order and provided much needed space for the students and teachers.

Read this case study and learn how modular buildings can be the perfect solution to emergency facility needs at your school or business.

Read the full study here.


Feb 8, 2007

Modular Home News

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