Ramtech trade show activities will be kicked into high gear during the month of February as we go on the road to exhibit our temporary and permanent modular buildings at conferences in both the healthcare and education markets.
First up, Bill Barron will represent us at the revamped Texas Hospital Association’s annual Conference and Expo on February 13th and 14th in booth 628 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX. The THA conference is the association’s marquee event for Texas hospital leaders in clinical, administrative and governance positions. The 2013 conference is expected to draw a record attendance with the addition of the organization’s partnership with the Texas Healthcare Trustees, Texas Organization of Nurse Executives, Texas Association of Healthcare Financial Administration, and the American College of Healthcare Executives Texas chapters.
The following week on February 19th and 20th, Ramtech’s Sabrina Queen and Jeff Ward will showcase our temporary and permanent modular construction capabilities for public schools in booths 511 & 513 at the 67th annual Texas Association of School Business Officials conference at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX. Representing more than 5,500 members and 30 regional affiliates from more than 900 public school districts in Texas, the TASBO conference always provides an ideal opportunity for us to follow-up with our huge number of past customers as well as potential clients in need of portable classrooms, traditional modular multiple classroom buildings, and permanent facilities using our Accelerated Building System permanent modular construction method.
This weekend Ramtech completed the manufacturing and installation of the modular buildings for the fifth and final phase of the MILCON Unaccompanied Enlisted Personnel Housing (UEPH) Advanced Individual Training (AIT) Barracks that will be used by the U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio,Texas. The project is part of a multiple task order under an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract that was previously awarded to the Southwest Division of Hensel Phelps Construction Co. in Austin, Texas. Ramtech was designated as a strategic subcontractor responsible for the manufacture and installation of 152 individual modular sections that are being assembled to create the four-story 272 room barracks that will total 116,480 square feet. (more…)
For over 30 years Ramtech has provided schools throughout the southwest with portable classroom buildings. Typically Ramtech keeps over 50 two-classroom buildings (often referred to as double classrooms or portables) both with and without restrooms in inventory for immediate delivery to public, private, and charter schools. As the largest supplier of portable classrooms in the Southwest, what many schools don’t realize is that Ramtech is also a major supplier of both standard and custom multiple classroom buildings, facilities that include up to 4 to 16 classrooms per building. (more…)
Ramtech recently went back to visit Immanuel Lutheran Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to see how their new modular classroom facility was functioning for their pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs. (more…)
For the last several years, the Modular Building Institute (MBI) has attempted to address the inequalities of the International Green Construction Code when applied to small commercial construction projects, as these are the heart of the commercial modular industry. MBI promotes the fact that modular buildings are one of the best platforms for sustainable building construction today for the following reasons:
- Factory construction means greater waste diversion from landfills
- Factory controlled construction means greater use of recycling practices
- Off-site construction means less site disruption
- Ability of modular buildings to be relocated and repurposed means fewer buildings being demolished and ultimately less waste
As we have stated before, sustainable construction practices make sense when applied in scale to the overall project. Small projects bear an inordinate amount of costs to attain certain levels of sustainable construction when compared to large public and private sector work; however, there may be more to question when it comes to green construction. (more…)