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Portable Classrooms Do Not Have To Be Utility Budget Busters
To support the learning needs of an ever-growing student population, thousands of schools across the nation use portable classrooms as a lower cost alternative to new building projects. Little more than poorly insulated, open-spaced trailers, these mobile facilities are energy leeches that eat into a school’s already slim budget. Highly inefficient, overused, and undermanaged HVAC is the largest abuser of energy use in these facilities. It’s common for these units to be controlled with simple programmable thermostats that teachers and staff can leave running continuously at occupied setpoints, further exacerbating the energy usage in these buildings.
