April 25, 2008
Temporary-Use Buildings Can Be Welcome Additions
Just about everyone has had an experience with a portable classroom — a one-story, railroad-car-like box on stilts or cinder blocks. You enter via a small ramp with painted 2-by-4 railings that leads to a plain door. The interior is not unlike other buildings on the campus — drop-in ceilings, painted drywall partitions, inexpensive carpet, metal door frames. Sometimes, in a design flourish, there are wood doors.
Many institution use such temporary classrooms to
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