Prefabricated Construction: An Answer To Reduced Military Spending
The blog site for the Modular Building Institute recently posted an article that addressed upcoming spending reductions by the Department of Defense. The article stated that “Defense spending may be down somewhat, but there’s still plenty of project dollars out there if you know where to look,” while also adding that firms seeking military contracts must keep abreast of five military construction trends. Ramtech took a look at these trends to show how our approach to permanent modular building construction satifies these requirements. (more…)
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A Major Milestone in Commercial Modular Construction
Recently, Ramtech Building Systems celebrated a major milestone: we manufactured our 16,000th modular building section. Founded in 1982 as a trailer leasing company that purchased modular buildings from wholesale manufacturers, Ramtech opened its own manufacturing facility in Mansfield, Texas in 1985. It has since manufactured both temporary and permanent modular buildings for commercial, industrial, educational, medical, and government applications. (more…)
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Commercial Modular Buildings and Disaster Relief
For years, the commercial modular industry has provided temporary and permanent modular buildings to federal, state, and local authorities as a source of disaster relief for areas that were struck by hurricanes, tornadoes, and wild fires. Many schools, hospitals, offices, and residential communities have benefited from modular buildings since they can be purchased or leased and can quickly be delivered and installed. (more…)
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International Green Construction Code Available for Adoption
The 2012 International Green Construction Code was published in March of this year. This model code is now available for adoption by state and local governmental bodies that rule over construction. So far over a dozen of these entities have adopted the 2012 IgCC in whole on a voluntary basis or in part on a mandatory basis. Arguably most significant of these adoptions is the State of Florida. (more…)
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Ramtech Wins Award at Modular Building Institute Annual Conference
Ramtech has added to its crop of Awards of Distinction trophies with another first place award at the World of Modular, the Modular Building Institute’s annual convention and trade show held this year March 24-27 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Florida. Ramtech extended our winning streak over the last three years by picking up a first place award in the ‘Temporary Office Under 5000 square feet’ category for the 4,320 square foot modular buildings we built and installed at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for the Multinational Medium Extended Air Defense System program. (more…)
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