Portable classroom

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationA portable classroom at Rockcliffe Park Public School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A portable classroom with wheelchair ramp at an elementary school in Washington County, Oregon, U.S. Portable classrooms at Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School in Markham, Ontario, Canada A four-room portable classroom at Reynolds High School in Troutdale, Oregon, U.S.

A portable classroom (also known as a demountable or relocatable classroom), is a type of portable building installed at a school to temporarily and quickly provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of capacity.[1] They are designed, so they may be removed once the capacity situation abates, whether by a permanent addition to the school, another school being opened in the area, or a reduction in student population.[1] Such buildings would be installed much like a mobile home, with utilities often being attached to a main building to provide light and heat for the room. Portable classrooms may also be used if permanent classrooms are uninhabitable, such as after a fire or during a major refurbishment.

Sometimes, the portable classrooms are meant to be long-lasting and are built as a "portapack", which combines a series of portables and connects them with a hallway.[citation needed]

Portable classrooms are colloquially known as bungalows, slum classes, t-shacks, trailers, terrapins, huts, t-buildings, portables, mobiles, or relocatables. In the UK, those built in 1945–1950 were known as HORSA huts after the name of the Government's post-war building programme, "Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-leaving Age".[2][3] Others in the UK are often known as 'Pratten huts' after the Pratten company that supplied many of them after World War II.[4][5][6][7]

## See also

* Modular building
* Modular design
* OpenStructures

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Relocatable buildings". New Zealand Ministry of Education. http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Funding/RelocatableBuildings.aspx.
2. ↑ Turner, Ben (1 August 2011). "Wirral's last 'temporary' post-war Horsa school hut to be bulldozed to allow Overchurch Infants revamp". http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/wirrals-last-temporary-post-war-horsa-3366638.
3. ↑ Webb, Simon (1 February 2013). The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain. History Press. ISBN 9780752489360. https://books.google.com/books?id=J4o7AwAAQBAJ&q=who+provided+horsa+huts&pg=PT62. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
4. ↑ "Domesday Reloaded: Spaxton V. C. Primary School". https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-320000-135000/page/3.
5. ↑ "Gomeldon Primary School, Idmiston". Wiltshire Council. https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/1030.
6. ↑ "Pratten Hut – St Dunstan School, Calne, Wiltshire". http://www.educationandtraining.org.uk/schools/school/pratten-hut-st-dunstan-school/.
7. ↑ "School website for The Rainbow Pre-School Learning Centre Warminster". http://www.findmyschool.co.uk/schooldetails.aspx?id=79918.

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