Newman Elementary School
Triumph Modular installed a relocatable modular school building at the Newman Elementary School in Needham, MA, enabling students to continue learning on-site in an optimal environment during the school’s renovation. This modular solution uniquely offered flexibility, style, and green features.
The project involved a sizable installation of 35,620 sq ft, completed in 60 days. The modular school complex comprises three separate buildings, and the 38 modules include 30 classrooms, administration offices, and three multi-stall restrooms. Each of the three buildings has ten classrooms, and the buildings are connected via a ramped corridor.
The modular complex features uplighting with illusion ceiling tiles, large aluminum-framed 3’x6’ windows, including a few 6’ round diameter windows to take advantage of natural light, and oak doors, shelves, and coat hooks throughout. The surfaces, materials, and colors used in the space are designed to provide vibrancy, fun, and creative inspiration while also promoting health, sustainability, functionality, and hygienic ease of maintenance. Roof-mounted, high-efficiency “Energence™” HVAC systems by Lennox with energy recovery ventilators and UV light technology which kills allergens. Floor, wall, and ceiling systems are designed to limit sound transfer between rooms and dampen sound reverberation. Aluminum ramps were installed in sections for easier mobility to the next user, and the HardiePanel® siding and aluminum extrusions provide a modern façade.
These modular relocatable buildings meet the requirements of the Massachusetts Stretch Energy Code, which is an appendix to the Massachusetts State Building Code adopted in May 2009, allowing municipalities to substitute for the standard energy code voluntarily. The “stretch energy code” is based on the IECC (International Energy Conservation Code) 2009, but with approximately 20% greater building efficiency requirements.
Check out this building’s green features.
Photo courtesy of Christian Phillips Photography
