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Concrete Portables More Durable, Cost Effective (PDF)
Florida school systems often rely on portable classrooms to ease overcrowded schools. Typically constructed of inexpensive materials that are quickly assembled, traditional portables are easily damaged during severe weather. Full article (PDF)

2006 Excalibur Award, Wally Sanger (PDF)
Sanger's companies contribute roughly $30,000 each year to local charities. He's a lifetime board member of the Gold Coast Builders Association and was name Citizen of the Year in 2005 by the Rotary Club of Royal Palm Beach. Full article (PDF)

Royal Professional Builders, FSEC Work Together on Florida's First LEED-Certified Home
A Port St. Lucie home became the first in the state to earn a certification through the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Homes pilot program after several inspections and performance tests were completed by the Florida Solar Energy Center.
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Governor Bush welcomes Royal Concrete Concepts expansion in Okeechobee
Governor Jeb Bush today applauded Royal Concrete Concepts for their recent expansion to Okeechobee County. The company's new modular building manufacturing facility is expected to create more than 1,300 new high-wage jobs... Full article

Concrete portable classrooms praised by parents, officials

Four years and four major hurricanes later, county officials say they feel vindicated. While storms damaged dozens of the old portables, all the concrete ones survived.
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Ready-made classrooms arrive at school

School superintendent Sandra "Sam" Himmel said adding a traditional brick-and-mortar wing to the school could have taken more than a year. The concrete classrooms were built in less than two months. Full article

A concrete solution to our classroom crunch?

Sometimes, things can sound too good to be true, and a school that costs half as much as traditional building yet lasts longer and can be built in a fraction of the time falls into that category. Full article

Prefab classrooms save cash

School district officials said they cost about 40 percent less than traditional permanent structures and company officials said they can withstand 150-mph hurricane-force winds. If needed, the buildings can be disassembled and moved... Full article

Class size restrictions fuel portable classroom boom

Hernando County’s STAR Education center was in need of new classrooms worth almost 2,000 square feet of space Friday morning. By 5 p.m., those classrooms were safely secured on the school’s Varsity Drive campus.
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Southside Elementary moves into new classrooms

To say that personnel at Southside Elementary were thrilled to finally begin moving into new classrooms last week would be an understatement. In fact, Principal Bill McRae called the classrooms "sweet." Full article

Portable classrooms strong enough for a Category 5 Hurricane

It's catching on with school districts on the east coast and now in the Bay area. School officials in Hernando county like how fast a single classroom can be ready, in just three weeks. The district has purchased 5 units and have ordered about 16 more. Full article

Two classrooms to go, please

For counties like Hernando that have quickly growing student enrollments but not much in the way of cash, it may represent the future of school construction: a concrete portable classroom. Full article