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Portable Classrooms Get A Makeover
When schools run out of room, they often have to put students in portable buildings (Source: Motown31 at Wikimedia Commons)
When schools get too crowded, they often resort to sticking students in modular classrooms – cheap trailers, essentially. But Sheryl Rich-Kern reports some innovative architects are saying that the energy savings and efficiency of modulars make them an ideal, and often, permanent solution:
Another story on schools from The Environment Report
Producer: Sheryl Rich-Kern
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Running Time: 3:22