A Better Mobile Classroom

April 25, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under Green Building, Green News

Calhan High School seniors in Colorado, USA.
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A NEW MOBILE CLASSROOM
Local Company’s Innovative Product In Use At Davie High
By Jackie Seabolt - Teacher

Josh Jenkins’ students listen intently as he reads a chapter from the literary classic Gilgamesh. Pictures of history’s greatest writers hang on newly painted walls and large exposed wooden beams give the room a “medieval, Gothic feel”, according to the Davie High English teacher. These students are learning inside the newest classroom edition at the high school. It is a state -of-the-art building composed of polyurethane panels manufactured by a local company.

Insulated Component Structures designed and built the new classroom using innovative materials that are stronger, safer, quieter, and can be placed on almost any terrain.

ICS classrooms are:

  • energy efficient
  • stronger
  • quiet
  • draft-free

All these features make ICS classrooms a better choice than mobile classrooms.

With an anticipated enrollment of 1, 580 students the need for additional classroom space at the high
school was imperitive.

“In most cases, mobile classrooms are the quick-fix answers to growing student populations,” said
W.G. Potts, Davie Schools’ superintendent. “Our interest as a school system is to provide students
and faculty with an alternative to mobiles, which are economical, structurally sound, and safe. By
erecting the structural classroom at Davie High School we achieved those goals. After researching the
ICS structures as an alternative to mobiles, it just made sense.”

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