Shelter Industries launches first of 138 modular full-day kindergarten classrooms
Shelter Industries unveiled their first
“This is a really, really big deal. It’s a
state-of-the-art modular classroom as
big deal for the Ministry, a big deal for
part of a $30-million contract with the
the province and a big deal for Shelter.
Province of B.C.’s Ministry of Education
We are very happy to be working on
to provide 138 modular classrooms for
this project,” says Rick Munn, Shelter
B.C.’s new full-day kindergarten pro-
Industries’ manufacturing manager.
gram for the September 2011 school year.
The new classrooms are far from the typical school portable of yesteryear,
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which only had a 15-year lifespan. In fact, you really can’t compare them. “This is different,” said B.C. Minister of Education Margaret MacDiarmid during a tour of the prototype in January 2011. “You can just tell by the feel of it. [Designed to last up to 40 years], these feel like a structure that could stay.” In fact, when installed on permanent foundations, these buildings will provide the same feel and comfort as any site-built structure. Even those buildings that will be installed on temporary foundations will provide the warmth necessary to deal with a harsh winter in northern B.C. and the comfort of air conditioning on a sweltering hot day in B.C.’s Okanagan. Mary Polak, Minister of Children and Family Development and Langley MLA, also attended the tour of the prototype, and agreed that these new buildings are the way of the future. “You can’t even call these buildings a portable. They are so night-and-day different. With imaginative and creative minds, this is a technology that is only
