Ramtech Articles Tagged: Education

In the recently completed legislative session, the 83^rd Texas Legislature passed bills that will dramatically affect the public school system and the way we currently educate our students. Most notably were bills that provided for an increase in the State’s charter school system, reduced the amount of standardized testing, expanded vocational training opportunities for high school graduates, and restored $3.9 billion that was cut two years ago to the state’s school funding budget. Ramtech has been following all of these changes very closely, to see what their impact will be on both relocatable and permanent modular construction.  Read more…

Over the last decade the growth in public and private universities, community colleges, and trade schools throughout Texas and the southwest has been significant. This growth has put stress not only on every schools classroom buildings, but also their dormitories and support facilities.   In order to support this growth, many colleges and universities have relied on commercial modular construction to provide additions to their campuses that are less expensive, faster, and of higher quality than most site constructed facilities.  In some cases these projects were for temporary use when permanent construction was taking place, while in other instances the school relied on permanent modular construction to provide long term solutions. Read more…

As we continue to develop projects for other churches and faith-based institutions, we recently went back to visit our friends at First Baptist Church in Frisco, Texas to check on how their new modular church buildings were working out. Ramtech provided the new facilities in order to meet the demand for additional space due to the Church’s rapidly growing congregation. Totaling 23,386 square feet, the project features a 6,750 square foot student worship center designed to accommodate a 13 foot high vaulted ceiling with exposed architectural ductwork and 12 classrooms.  The other two modular buildings include an 8,060 square foot 14 classroom adult education facility with fellowship area, and a 8,576 square foot building with six classrooms and 14 private offices with adjacent administrative support areas for the ministry staff. The church has been very pleased with the buildings and plans to relocate them in the future when they move to a larger campus. We sat down with Steve Stege, Executive Pastor at FBC Frisco to hear his thoughts on modular construction and their experience in working with Ramtech.

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Gary White is Vice President of Sales & Estimating at Ramtech Building Systems, Inc.  He has been in the commercial modular industry for 33 years and is responsible for the management of all sales and estimating efforts across each of Ramtech’s key market segments: Education, Government, Medical, and Commercial.

After assisting the Hubbard Independent School District in lowering their original $12 million construction budget by 33% to $8 million, Ramtech provided a multi-facility project consisting of three buildings using the Accelerated Building System permanent modular construction approach. Included is a 9,856 square foot high school with six classrooms, a computer language lab, family and consumer science lab, two non-acid science labs, and a data room. The 13,440 square foot junior/senior central use wing provides three separate administration areas, a boardroom, full library, computer, business and chemistry labs, a large instructional use room, and a data room. The third building is a 6,272 square foot junior high school wing which contains four standard classrooms, two science labs, a life skills room with attached storage area, and its own data room. All of the buildings have a split-face block masonry exterior designed to match the existing school architecture. Hubbard Superintendent Randy O’Brien graciously went on camera to discuss the modular building project, and provided his insight on what it was like to work with Ramtech.

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Gary White is Vice President of Sales & Estimating at Ramtech Building Systems, Inc.  He has been in the commercial modular industry for 33 years and is responsible for the management of all sales and estimating efforts across each of Ramtech’s key market segments: Education, Government, Medical, and Commercial.