In addition to the shipping containers, there are indoor Portals that can be assembled from modular building pieces, as well as inflatable structures that can be compacted to fit into a suitcase.
Inside it were modular buildings for the station's residents — as many as 200 in summer, 50 or so through the harsh polar winter.
The first phase, which could begin as early as this summer, entails tearing down seven modular buildings and replacing them with a 16,600-square-foot, single story classroom and lab building.
So far, Crow has obtained the land--for $1 in a land swap with Woodcrest Development Inc.--as well as conditional-use permits from the city for temporary modular buildings and a botanical garden.
The Modular Buildings series is viewed by Lego designers and fan sites as "toys for adults".
In the United States, modular buildings rarely go above 10 stories.
Our friends owned a manufacturer of modular buildings.
Mr. Brewer said Muhlenberg has been pleased with the quality of its modular buildings.
In the United States, Holiday Inn and Marriott, among others, have experimented with modular buildings over the years, according to Simon Dragan, the president of Whitley Manufacturing, a modular construction company in South Whitley, Ind.
Until last month, Miller, a maker of modular buildings for commercial use, was in talks to be acquired by Modtech Holdings Inc., a maker of modular classrooms.
