Our team recently hosted a careers day at a local school near our Waterloo & Queen Street project in Havering. Rollalong is providing temporary modular homes there to help local families.

The event let students explore different careers in modular construction and the construction sector as a whole. They also learned how our modular building projects like the one near their school come together.

The day began with an introduction to the local development and the temporary homes being built. This gave them useful background on what’s happening nearby and how modular construction can quickly create quality homes.

Staff from Rollalong, Wates, and D4S joined in for the whole day, leading interactive sessions to show what different jobs involve.

 

In the morning, students took part in a fun “Guess the Career” game. They asked yes-or-no questions to match team members with their jobs, which encouraged curiosity and problem-solving. The activity got everyone talking and helped students learn about different paths into construction, design, manufacturing, and other fields, while meeting professionals face-to-face.

The day also featured career workshops where students tried out different roles. In the structural engineering workshop, teams built paper structures to learn about engineering and teamwork. In the marketing workshop, students created a mock social media post to see how projects are shared with the public. In the Design Workshop, students drew home plans and learned about the basics of design and spatial planning.

These sessions showed that building homes takes more than just construction. It involves designers, engineers, marketers, sales teams, procurement, estimators, and many others working together.

For many students, the temporary homes being set up nearby could help their own families. This made the day especially meaningful and helped connect what they learn in school to real-life situations.

Events like this are part of our promise to create social value with every project. They give young people a look at future career options and help us build stronger connections with the communities around our developments.

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18 Temporary Homes in Havering

Take a closer look at our temporary modular solution being installed on Waterloo and Queens Street in Havering.

Havering Project

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At the start of the summer break we demolished an old double classroom at the school for Dorset Council in order to replace it with a larger double classroom.

In fact, we’ve provided two new buildings on a full turnkey basis: a six-bay double classroom with quiet rooms, lobby and WCs, and changing rooms with WCs and showers for the school swimming pool.

“This was a fantastic effort from everyone involved,” said our Managing Director Steve Chivers, while Projects Director Iain Steele added: “Brilliant work – well done to all involved as it’s a team effort that make these jobs go so well. That’s three buildings handed over in one week as planned.”

Have a look at this video by Steve Cox of SC Aerial Images to see our installation team in action at Beaucroft School.

If your school needs new facilities or extra space, get in touch with us and ask about our flexible modular buildings.

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Using modern methods of construction (MMC) we have delivered: 

• Two classrooms 
• Two breakout rooms 
• Sensory room
• Meeting room
• Three accessible WCs 
• Additional storage 

Gillingham Upper School will be using this new development as a special educational needs (SEN) inclusion hub. 

The groundwork for this project was challenging because of a large water tank used to manage and control rainwater that had to be relocated. Our experienced team navigated these challenges effectively to achieve a successful delivery. 

This project is expected to be completed by December 2023. 

We are specialists when it comes to modular buildings for the education sector, so please get in touch if you need additional space for your school.  

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August and September is always a busy period for our education team as schools take the opportunity to improve their estate while pupils are on holiday.

At the start of the summer break we demolished an old double classroom at Beaucroft Foundation School in Wimborne for Dorset Council in order to replace it with a considerably larger double classroom.

In fact, we’re providing two new buildings on a full turnkey basis: a six-bay double classroom with quiet rooms, lobby and WCs, and changing rooms with WCs and showers for the school swimming pool.

The modules have now been installed on site and the whole project will be complete by October half-term.

Delivering these modules to space-restricted sites is sometimes a challenge, but it’s one that we relish! Have a look at the video below by Steve Cox of SC Aerial Images to see our installation team in action.

If your school needs new facilities or extra space, get in touch with us and ask about our flexible modular construction solutions.

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Last week we delivered a new building to a school in Dorset that had an urgent need for additional classroom space.

To solve a problem for Mountjoy School in Beaminster we provided a previously used building that we had in stock: a six-bay double classroom with WCs, newly refurbished kitchens, M&E package, and suspended ceilings and flooring.

Access to the school site was very challenging but thanks to a team effort, and working closely with Dorset Council and local residents, we completed the installation in one day and ahead of schedule.

The council’s traffic management team set up parking restrictions at short notice and local residents were asked not to park on nearby Fleet Street to allow our vehicles to access the site.

John Butcher, Delivery Manager at Dorset Council, commented: “I think we proved a point that a bit of local knowledge, plenty of public liaison, rolling your sleeves up and being prepared to do some leg work along with working together will always result in a successful outcome!”

If you need additional space for your school, please get in touch with us to find out how our modular buildings can provide the ideal solution.

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Offsite modular construction produces fast results – especially when two companies in the same group work together! 

Dorset Council, an existing client of ours, came to us to help solve an urgent problem by providing additional teaching spaces at extremely short notice at Beaucroft Foundation School in Wimborne.  

Qdos Event Hire is one of our sister companies, part of the Newship Group, and we knew that they had a modular building solution that was perfect for the job – so the kit was sourced and the team dispatched.  

The school now has three new individual 20’ x 32’ open plan spaces, each made up of a four-bay CTX unit. The entire project from order to handover was completed within seven days, including the co-ordination of a team of electricians, who tested and installed emergency and external lighting once onsite, and cleaners. 

The head teacher and all the staff are really pleased with the temporary buildings and very impressed by our quick turnaround. 

The project was a great example of how companies within the Newship Group pull together with a sense of camaraderie to really deliver fast and effective solutions for our customers! 

Sam Evers, Senior Delivery Manager for Assets and Property at Dorset Council, said: “I went to the site yesterday and I just have to say a huge thank you! It is amazing how quickly you have turned this round for the school.  

“They look good and they were filling up with equipment very quickly. The kids will be very happy with them until their college is finished.” 

Rollalong Projects Co-ordinator Stuart Curtis said: “It has been a challenging task which I personally enjoyed because of the fact that everyone pulled together and did their bit to make it happen, so well done and thank you all!” 

Rollalong MD Steve Chivers added: “This was a monumental effort to address the school’s urgent requirement to provide additional teaching spaces at such short notice. 

“It’s amazing what we can achieve when we all pull together as one team!” 

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We’re pleased to have completed a modular extension at Lyde Green Primary School in Bristol. 

The project was completed in a challenging timeframe during the school summer holiday period and provides two additional classrooms as well as an entrance lobby, toilets, two storerooms and a plant room. 

We manufactured five modules in total for the new building, which features an air-source heat pump and pressure-treated timber external cladding. 

We’ve got lots of experience in the education sector, so if you’re building a new school or looking to extend an existing school, get in touch with us!

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Young dancers hoping to emulate their favourite stars from Strictly Come Dancing can now practise their dance moves in a new purpose-built dance studio.

We were delighted to hand over the studio to Wellington Community Primary School in Aldershot last week.

The dance studio, which was manufactured offsite at our factory in Dorset, has a sprung floor and a mirrored wall. The building also contains two stand-alone rooms to be used for one-to-one lessons with pupils.

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Good news to start the week! We’re delighted to have successfully handed over a new science room facility at Harrow Way Community School in Andover a week ahead of schedule.

The new modular chemistry classroom features gas connections fitted throughout the room and was constructed at our factory in Dorset before being installed on site at the school.

Happy to report that the school are pleased and expressed their appreciation to all involved, saying: “The project has gone very smoothly and without any disruption to the school with a friendly, professional and knowledgeable team on site.”

The Harrow Way project is just one of a number of modular solutions we’ve been delivering to schools in the South West over the summer. Watch this space for news of more completions!

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This week the Government has had to drop its plan to send all primary age children back to school before the start of the summer holidays.

After weeks of warnings from the teaching profession the Department for Education has reluctantly had to conclude that most school premises in England simply aren’t big enough to allow all children to return while maintaining safe social distancing.

But our modular classrooms are a fast and cost-effective way to expand school capacity and allow more children to return to education. Headteachers looking for novel ways to re-open safely should consider hiring or buying modular classrooms from Rollalong as a temporary solution.

Other options are being explored, such as using space in council buildings, libraries or theatres. But the fact remains that schools will find it easier to re-open if all pupils are taught on the same school site. Modular classrooms that can be quickly and easily installed are an obvious answer.

We have a number of modular double classrooms for purchase or hire which we can install and fully fit out in between four and eight weeks depending on the site and the groundworks required.

The classrooms can also be adapted for other uses such as extra offices or storage space.

The standard 18218mm x 9318mm double classrooms with toilets are fully BB101 compliant with 2019 regulations, and electrics, plumbing and groundworks can be completed our team as part of the hire or purchase.

We can deliver the classroom modules anywhere in the south of England – over to London and the South East and as far north as Oxford.

There’s no minimum or maximum hire period, but hiring becomes more cost-effective the longer you want to keep your new building.

The ground conditions on your site and the proximity to other buildings and services will influence our ability to install our classroom modules.

To find our more and enquire about prices please email our sales estimator Joe Pilgrim:

joseph.pilgrim@rollalong.co.uk

The standard specification of these classrooms includes the following:

2 x classroom
2 x pupil WC
1 x accessible WC
Air source heat pumps (energy efficient heating)
Containment for IT provision
2 x store room
uPVC window
Fire doors
Non-slip exterior flooring
Anti-trap ginger guards on all doors
2x storage and sink area
Clad in pale green Hemsec external cladding

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