Green Modular Classrooms and Portable School Buildings
President Obama has just delivered a state of the union address speech, in which he stressed the importance of good education and research with focus on renewable energy and sustainability. The President has also stressed the importance of creating new sustainable jobs in the construction industry. Without a doubt, renewable energy systems, and sustainable building practices can offer a great promise to help rebuild America.
Commercial modular construction offers a speedy and cost effective way to build single story and multistory buildings for educational, commercial, industrial and institutional construction projects with focus on sustainability, which can be measured by the US Green Building Council LEED accreditation points system.
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The President has raised some very important points concerning good education and rebuilding of America. Modular building technology offers a cost effective and time-saving way to build permanent modular classrooms, and portable school buildings for organizations that require new classroom space to meet the growing demands for increased school enrollments.
Modular Classroom Advantages
Modular school buildings are indistinguishable from other school buildings, and can have any architectural design along with client’s specifications.
Portable classrooms provide an economical and sustainable way for public, private and charter schools to add new classroom space. Modular classrooms are custom-designed to meet the specific needs of the school and its students. The classrooms are fabricated at a manufacturer’s facility using strict quality control measures, and lean manufacturing methods. The manufacturing process is completed in just 6 to 8 weeks, which is just a fraction of the time it would take to build comparable school buildings using conventional construction methods. The construction site prep work takes place concurrent to modular building being constructed. The whole building can be delivered in as early as 90 days.
Portable Classroom Solutions
For schools that require an immediate classroom space increase, temporary classroom buildings can be delivered and deployed in just 24 hours.
The modular school buildings above are courtesy Triumph Modular Inc. providing custom green modular building services, and portable and temporary classroom solutions in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Maine and Vermont. The Sprout Space sustainable high-performance custom modular classroom systems designed by architects who focus on school design can be installed by Triumph Modular anywhere in the US.
References
http://www.triumphmodular.com/green-building.php
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Federal Government Releases Action Plan To Address Ocean Challenges
To address the most pressing challenges facing ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources, the federal government today released a National Ocean Policy action plan.
The draft requests comments on actions the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies on the National Ocean Council will take to improve the health of the ocean, coasts and Great Lakes, which support tens of millions of jobs, contribute trillions of dollars a year to the national economy and are essential to public health and national security.
The draft action plan will ensure that the federal government targets its resources to more effectively and efficiently deliver results for Americans, including greater predictability for ocean users and better access to the latest science and information related to ocean health.
The actions reflect ideas and input from industry, conservation groups, local officials, the public and other stakeholders who provided critical feedback to the National Ocean Council through two public comment periods and 12 regional listening sessions.
Ocean and coastal resources are under pressure from growing and often competing uses, such as national security, recreation, shipping, energy production and commercial fishing, as well as from pollution, resource extraction and climate change.
The draft Implementation Plan focuses on public-private partnerships, promoting efficiency and collaboration across sectors, managing resources with an integrated approach and making available and using the best science and information on ocean health.
The draft plan outlines key milestones, identifies responsible federal agencies and indicates the expected timeframe for completion of Implementation Plan actions.
The plan makes it a priority to:
- Provide scientific information to support emerging sustainable uses of resources including fisheries, renewable energy, aquaculture and biotechnology;
- Provide open access to data and information across the federal government for state and local decision-makers, ocean users, stakeholders and the public;
- Identify and make available grant and partnership opportunities to support regional priorities;
- Develop methods and standards for assessing the resilience of natural resources, cultural resources, coastal communities and infrastructure in a changing climate; and
- Identify and conserve habitat for priority fish species.
Under the plan, NSF will play a major role in supporting the priority objectives of the National Ocean Policy and its action plan.
Examples of NSF contributions include:
- NSF will serve a primary role in promoting the Inform Decisions and Improve Understanding priority objective, in particular advancing fundamental scientific knowledge of the oceans as guided by the Ocean Research Priorities Plan (ORPP).
- NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is cited as one of the major milestones for the Observations, Mapping and Infrastructure priority objective.
- NSF will partner with other federal agencies in the assessment of oceanographic ship capabilities to support multi-mission agency activities in the Arctic.
To read the draft Implementation Plan and to submit comments, please visit the National Ocean Council website.
The National Ocean Policy, established by Executive Order 13547 on July 19th, 2010, provides that federal agencies will “ensure the protection, maintenance, and restoration of the health of ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhance the sustainability of ocean and coastal economies, preserve our maritime heritage, support sustainable uses and access, provide for adaptive management to enhance our understanding of and capacity to respond to climate change and ocean acidification, and coordinate with our national security and foreign policy interests.”
It also called for the creation of an interagency National Ocean Council to oversee the policy’s implementation.
For more information about the National Ocean Council, please visit their website.
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