More colleges using modular construction

March 26, 2008
Residence halls and classrooms can be built quickly

Modular construction may have an image associated with prisons and barracks, but it is also increasingly being used in a more refined setting, to create quick and convenient residence halls and classrooms for colleges and universities. These are not the flimsy wooden buildings that were the hallmark of the first generation of modular building, but hardier steel and concrete structures.

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