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The Perfect Classroom
CASE 21 classroom solution
By: Dawn Ring - Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Source: Schoolfacilities.com
Architecture Involution LLC (Ai3) and Triumph Modular recently launched the CASE 21 classroom solution – a high-performance learning environment employing state-of-the-art green design, organizational layout and educational technology integration –the perfect classroom to address space, learning environment and budget needs of school districts.
CASE 21 was conceived as an answer to the thousands of poorly designed classrooms that are constructed each year in the United States; classrooms which fail to recognize the educational benefits associated with well-designed educational environments. Higher test scores, healthier students, increased attention spans, and less absenteeism are just a few of the many benefits that have been proven to exist in properly designed classrooms. CASE 21 is revolutionary because it offers clients highly advanced educational environments IMMEDIATELY without the need for lengthy planning. Prior to CASE 21, clients who wanted to expand their educational space generally felt they had to accept the standard 50-year-old technology associated with typical modular classrooms or begin the lengthy process of custom design and construction. Now they have an alternative… highly advanced educational environments designed by educational design experts that are far superior to traditional educational learning environments AND are Green, immediately available, and affordable. CASE 21 integrates the most advanced principles of green design, educational design, sustainable design with the inherent advantages of prefab construction; maximizing energy efficiency while minimizing environmental impact and providing a genuinely healthy and fully permanent answer to school space needs.
The classroom offers students an ideal learning environment – superior air quality, natural lighting, educational technology tools, ideal acoustics and sightlines – while adhering to the strictest principles of green design and technology. It is built to green specifications based on Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) or Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) standards and has been modeled for maximum energy savings, which are significant.
CASE 21 combines the most advanced principles of design for the ideal learning environment with the rapid-delivery, cost-control benefits of modular construction. The CASE 21 classroom solution is constructed completely off-site, in a climate-controlled environment that eliminates delays or obstacles related to weather, site disruption or other factors. Installation is executed by the most experienced technicians in the modular industry at Triumph Modular – the nation’s leading provider of high-quality permanent and temporary modular buildings for education, health care and other key economic sectors.
Measured in time saving alone, prefab classroom solutions present major benefits for the school district or university because the design and permitting phases of prefab and site-built projects proceed roughly on the same track and timetable. Once site development and foundation work is complete, the speed to completion of prefab really accelerates. That’s because the classroom is under construction – off site in a warehouse – concurrent to the site development work. Project completion for a prefab building project can be achieved as much as 50 percent faster than with site built methods. This controlled process also means controlling cost overruns – a traditional and costly headache for many permanent school expansion projects.
It is no small thing that the prefab construction industry offers a more sustainable, eco-friendly way to create long-term classroom. There is less material waste with prefab because of the controlled, factory construction setting. Air quality of the final project is never compromised because of moisture settling into framing materials. The construction process is safer. And there is less site disturbance and impact on surrounding property.
More and more, prefab building solutions are the smartest way for school officials to address a wide variety of classroom space needs. CASE 21 employs Ai3’s advanced understanding of the ideal learning environment to address these factors and maximize the benefits of smart classroom design.
When taking into account the green design principles and effective classroom learning elements, what for many years has been a standard temporary answer for schools and universities has become a legitimate – and in many ways preferable – option for permanent classroom construction.
Cliff Cort is the President of Triumph Modular in Littleton, Mass. www.triumphmodular.com
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