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Portable & modular school buildings

Straight answers on portable classrooms and modular school space.

Real costs, code rules, site prep, ramps, security and maintenance, with sources you can take to your board. Written by an industry veteran, not a sales team.

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Matt Banes
38 years in commercial modular buildings
31%of US public schools use portable buildingsNCES, Dec 2023
180K–200Krelocatable classrooms owned by districtsMBI 2026 Annual Report
49 yrsaverage age of the main school buildingNCES, Dec 2023
$90Bannual school facilities funding gapState of Our Schools 2025

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38years in modular buildings
Who writes this site

Matt Banes: 38 years buying, selling, valuing and inspecting modular buildings.

More than a decade at Williams Scotsman, then president of iModular.com. Every price on this site is either Matt's own or a cited public record, with the date beside it.

  • Sources linked and dated
  • No sales pitch, no quote forms
  • Reviewed and updated yearly
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