Oregon Architects Trying to Create an Improved Portable Classroom

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Portable classrooms are meant to be cheap, movable and temporary. They are commonly chosen to address overcrowding in schools across the country. However, the manufactured structures often are neither being moved nor used temporarily.

Because of changing demographics and consistently tight budgets, portables built to last for only a decade or two are still being used 60 years later. As schools in Oregon and across the country continue to add portable classrooms, a group of architects and researchers is now working to find ways to improve the prototypes without raising costs.

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Oregon Architects Trying to Create an Improved Portable Classroom

"In the best of all worlds we wouldn't be building portables anymore - brick-and-mortar structures are more durable," said Sergio Palleroni, associate professor of architecture at Portland ...

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