22 06, 2020

Ten Article Picks about Schools and COVID-19

2024-10-16T23:49:36+00:00
A teacher prepares her classroom by measuring to make sure there is enough space between the desks in order to comply with social distance guidelines.

As the school year has come to a close, school administrators, teachers, and parents are finding that there is little to no information regarding what school will look like come the fall of 2020. We’ve decided to compile a list of articles and links to make it easier for those of you seeking information about the possible classroom social distancing guidelines, etc., for next year’s school year.

  1. Between 0 and 100%: Texas schools weigh the odds of students returning this fall. A journalistic piece in the Texas Tribune that presents the possibilities that schools are weighing: year-round-school, staggered schedules, online learning, and more.
  2. TEA COVID-19 Health Resources or TEA COVID-19 Support and Guidance. Both links are to the Texas Education Agency. The first gives information outlining the public health situation that COVID-19 potentially presents in school settings and social distancing and other health guidelines. The second provides more specific details about the flow of information from the governor to the school districts about the 2020-2021 school year.
  3. Coronavirus technical guidance for schools, workplaces, and institutions. An important page on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) website that provides information about the prevention and control of COVD-19 in schools.
  4. Getting your school ready. A PDF booklet created by the WHO with key messages, actions, and checklists for each age group.
  5. COVID-19 Planning Considerations: Return to in-person education schools. Here, the American Academy of Pediatrics provides extensive information about what schools should take into consideration when they reopen, including physical health, mental health, nutrition, special populations, and more.
  6. Schools reopening has not triggered rise in COVID-19 cases, EU ministers told. A journalistic piece in the Guardian that reports that the French education minister says it’s more dangerous to keep children at home, rather than going back to school.
  7. How feasible are school reopening plans for the fall? Education Dive explores the feasibility of the many plans and ideas for schools reopening.
  8. When will schools reopen? As part of The Cut series in the New York Magazine, this piece discusses the nuanced issues with schools reopening, and it also provides links to other sources about this matter.
A floor plan of a modular classroom that provides enough space that students can sit six feet away from one another.

Although there is a lot of news about what a school reopen might look like, and there are lots of helpful guidelines, there aren’t, so far, any specific lists of proven viable solutions. We here at Aries thought we would feature what we can do to help school districts and administrations with a solution to this issue.

Portable educational buildings have long been the answer to the problem of overcrowded classrooms. Aries now sees portable educational buildings as the perfect solution for schools to practice the safe and healthy guidelines recommended by the CDC. Aries is here for you during this time. We can meet all of your portable classroom needs and offer speedy delivery. You can option to move offices or nurse’s rooms outside, with our one- or two-office floor plans. You can choose various modular classrooms from our several one-classroom floor plans. We also have four classroom buildings, six classroom buildings, and extended double and multi-unit portables, should you plan to move several classrooms outside the main building.

For more examples of floor plans of our prefabricated classrooms, please visit our space solutions for social distancing page.

A beautiful aerial view of one of Aries’ award winning portable classroom campuses consisting of over twelve large grey and burgundy modular complexes at Austin ISD in Houston, Texas on a sunny day.

ABOUT ARIES

Aries is owned by Reliant Asset Management, a leading specialty rental company providing premier modular space solutions to customers throughout North America. From remote workforce housing to single and multi-story buildings for growing businesses and organizations, Reliant Asset Management and its subsidiaries support a wide range of modular needs including design, manufacturing, transportation, construction, and financing. Aries doesn’t just PROVIDE extended stay modular accommodations, Aries MAKES modular buildings…and provides everything from A-Z when it comes to modular solutions.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Ten Article Picks about Schools and COVID-192024-10-16T23:49:36+00:00
18 06, 2020

Aries Provides Temporary Housing for Renewable Energy and Seasonal Workers

2024-10-16T23:14:12+00:00
Two venerable energy workers in yellow vests and blue helmets installing solar panels under a blue sky with a mountain range in the distance behind them.

 

While many citizens have either lost their jobs or have begun to work from home, the renewable energy and the agricultural sector are thriving, as both provide products that have become two of the essential daily needs of Americans: food and energy.

From avocados in California, apples in Washington, grapefruit in Texas, corn in Iowa, and blueberries in Maine, migrant workers generally travel from state to state to help harvest vegetables and other produce according to the optimal time of the season for each ripe and ready crop. This work is temporary, but very difficult, what better way to reward these essential seasonal employees than with comfortable housing?

According to the Environmental Defense Fund, “[the] renewable energy sector employs 777,000 people, roughly the same as the U.S. telecommunications industry. Bioenergy – which comes from organic material – remains the largest employer, while the solar industry is second.

The most rapid renewable energy job growth has come from the solar and wind sectors, which rose by 24.5 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2017.” Like seasonal farmworkers, renewable energy workers travel to locations far from their home in order to install energy storage systems and advanced, modern power grids. They also construct and install energy-efficient equipment. Another highly respected, but also potentially backbreaking job, renewable energy workers, too, deserve a comfortable place to rest their heads each night.

Seasonal farmworkers picking vegetables with a grove of trees in the distance behind them and a clear, blue sky above them.

 

Aries is a full-service provider of residential housing with a focus on quality, value, delivery, and service. We understand the large scale housing needs of remote labor industries, like renewable energy and seasonal farm work. Composed of engineering, manufacturing, facility management, and sales professionals, our experienced team takes great pride in meeting the needs of remote residential housing construction and delivery. Aries can help you design, install, and operate the best possible accommodation for your project.

No matter how remote the location or challenging the environment, Aries can design, manufacture, and install a workforce housing complex that is specialized for harsh winter climates. Our goal is to provide state-of-the-art warmth and self-sufficiency through extended periods of extreme weather. We offer cozy sleeping accommodations, commercial kitchens, dining halls, recreation & workout facilities, restrooms & showers, offices, conference rooms, and laundry facilities. Our self-sufficient remote cold climate camp designs can, by request, include a sewage treatment plant and enough generator power for the entire complex.

An advertisement that reads, “Space Solutions to Implement Social Distancing” with Aries’ trademarked ram head logo and their phone number: 1-888-598-6689.

 

We also have a deep understanding of remote desert camps, or extreme hot weather workforce housing. By offering a large menu of entertainment, dining, and fitness amenities to help your workers get a good night’s sleep, we hope to increase the productivity and focus of your workers, so that they can do the best job possible.

Here are some of the services that our temporary housing suites include:

  • Land sourcing and development
  • Camp design
  • Building engineering
  • Custom and ready-made floor plans
  • Remote site readiness
  • In-house manufacturing
  • Delivery and installation
  • Camp operations
  • Extended product warranty
  • Project financing

Aries has thought of everything in order to make it easier for you! Companies must also provide food services and other accommodations for the workers, often for extended periods of time, and, so, here are some of the other special amenities that Aries also offers:

  • Food service and housekeeping
  • Security and transportation services
  • Laundry and tailoring services
  • Waste management
  • Vector control
  • Labor support and supply
  • Tailor-made maintenance
  • Contracts
  • Power transmission and design including generators
A row of Aries workforce housing units, white with blue panels, with satellite dishes and mechanical air handlers attached to the ends.

 

ABOUT ARIES

Aries has offices and operates in all regions across the U.S., including the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast, the Midwest, South Central, the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada. For this reason, Aries features its modular short- and long-term housing in several locations across North America.

Aries sells prefabricated office buildings to be used as construction offices, portable school classrooms, mobile hospitals, workforce housing at oil pipeline sites, storage containers, and for disaster recovery relief, but we’d love to help you buy one for any purpose at all! We offer full turnkey solutions with exceptional customer service and robust financing options. We pride ourselves on combining product quality, design expertise, technical and financial innovation, and strategy that has already established us a first choice to customers.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Aries Provides Temporary Housing for Renewable Energy and Seasonal Workers2024-10-16T23:14:12+00:00
19 05, 2020

VisionARIES – Q&A with Tom Pieper (Spotlight)

2023-09-01T20:18:23+00:00
  • Your formal title at Aries: Territory Sales Manager
  • Your job duties & responsibilities: Business Development, Customer Service, Fleet management and further development of customer rlationships for Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado.
  • How long have you been at Aries? 6 Weeks
  • Where did you work prior to Aries; was it in the same industry or something totally different?

I started with GE Capital Modular Space March 23 rd of 1993, two weeks prior to my first daughter being born. I started with Aries on that same daughter’s birthday, 27 years later. Through several mergers and acquisitions, I ended up with Willscot. I spent nearly all of that time in sales but actually started as a branch manager. That time spent as a branch manager helped me learn what customers really expect from a modular provider.

  • When you’re not at work, what would we find you doing? Spending time with my family, working around the house and on my mustang project.
  • Hometown? Dunbar, Nebraska, but have now spent 35 years in Missouri. I wear red during football season on Saturday AND Sunday.
  • Family, children? I have been married to my wife Shauna for 32 years. We have two daughters, Shelby Schisler of Orlando Florida and Taylor Pieper of Kansas City, Missouri.
  • What would “your perfect day” consist of? A good cup of coffee , closing a deal, DJIA up 200 and a long drive in my mustang with my wife. Spend the evening at a small venue with live music.
  • What’s your favorite part about working for Aries so far? Simply stated the people. Everyone has been very helpful.
  • What sets Aries apart from other companies that deliver the exact same things? Leadership, knowledge, experience and desire to provide a high level of customer service.
  • What do you hope to bring to Aries in terms of leadership and company culture? The ability to think “outside the box” and uncover additional opportunities within every deal.
  • If you weren’t working for Aries, what job would you probably have? Operating my own small construction company.
  • What do you think the future holds for Aries?

Consolidation within the market has created large gaps in customer needs and service. We are perfectly positioned to capitalize on that demand.

  • Is there anything we didn’t bring up that you’d like to talk about? The relationships we develop with customers today hold the key to our future.
VisionARIES – Q&A with Tom Pieper (Spotlight)2023-09-01T20:18:23+00:00
18 05, 2020

What Industries Are Best Suited for Fast Modular Building?

2025-02-08T00:29:15+00:00
An upward-facing photo of a mid-sized building with rectangular modules jutting out at alternate angles between white, load-bearing columns with a blue sky and clouds above.

Most people associate modular construction with certain industries, such as the construction, education, health, and energy sectors. The efficiency and durability of modular buildings make them dominant products that are extremely useful in these fast-paced industries.

However, modular construction can be found in the unlikeliest of places, such as residential homes, governmental buildings, and skyscrapers. Other industries such as the hospitality, restaurant, and disaster relief industries have also begun taking advantage of the time and cost savings offered by the prefabrication industry.

In the following list, we illuminate some of the most astonishing uses of modular building in six different industries.

Health Industry

In the mid-1800’s, the Florence Nightingale-associated Renkioi Hospital proved to be a great success. During the Crimean war, this modular hospital saved, by a factor of 10, more lives when compared to the other British hospital in use, the Scutari Hospital.

A detailed sketch of Renkioi Hospital showing a large building with multiple wings surrounded by smaller square buildings with gable roofs in rows, a few larger buildings, and several tents all at the base of a large mountain while people on horses move about.

Fast forward to 2020, and the same formula for the rapid construction of modern hospitals is still being applied. Today, the healthcare industry represents the third largest consumer of modular products, behind the commercial and educational sectors. For example, the modular industry made possible the construction of a 300,000 square foot hospital in only 6 days. The prefabricated modules housed over 1,000 patients fighting the most recent coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Here in the United States, portable clinics, modular hospitals, and emergency portable housing facilities are literally “saving the day” as there is no time for traditional construction amidst a pandemic.

More than anything, modular hospitals prove just how specialized modular buildings can become; as well as treating large amounts of critically ill and injured patients with little disruption and when time is tantamount.

Education

Education centers all around the world benefit from permanent buildings and temporary accommodation buildings. Labs, modular classrooms, offices, gyms, and locker-rooms have all been built using prefabrication. The education industry represents the second biggest consumer of modular products.

A rectangular picture, in shades of blue, which shows a blackboard with geometric figures and diagrams in front of which is the torso of a student wearing a denim jacket and blue shirt holding a large, open book in their hands.

For example, in London in just one year the Apex Towers were constructed as student housing. Rising 29 stories and containing 580 units for student living, Apex Towers highlights one of the strengths of off-site manufacture which is the non-intrusive nature of its operation. A reporter for Construction Manager Magazine stated, “I have been on-site for over an hour and during that time I have only seen a handful of operatives, working from mast climbers on the façade, a few site managers, and just two lorry deliveries, each carrying one piece of cargo.”

Despite the low activity level, the tower was built at dizzying speed thanks to turn-key modules that were delivered ready for use, foregoing the need for installation of sinks, bathrooms, electrical finishes, water pipes, sockets, or light switches.

The streamlined architecture also highlights the modular industry’s venture towards more customizable structures that fit the personality of clients.

Construction

Traditional and modular construction have a long history of working together. For example, on most traditional construction sites, a portable, modular office can be found on-site.

A digital rendering of a large, grey trailer office along the length of which are a few sets of thin rectangular windows, and two short staircases with railings leading to two white doors.

In addition, many builders use hybrid projects that place modular buildings alongside traditional construction. Clients appreciate the choice of having these portable solutions paired with more permanent buildings. Relocatable buildings also are in high demand next to traditional construction.

In New York, condos worth between 2 million to 2.5 million on the market have been built using hybrid construction. The rooms themselves were manufactured off-site, but the outside façade is designed and built in a traditional manner to give it a unique and personalized feel.

Hospitality

A wide shot of a luxury hotel’s reception area, showing two chandeliers, a lounge with a long, brown couch, a coffee table, and two armchairs, a long, open hall with shiny marble floors, in the middle of which a woman wearing a skirt is standing and checking in to the hotel with the help of a greeter behind the hotel counter.


The modular industry’s speed and cost advantages are well known. But can prefabricated buildings be a luxury product with top notch quality? Yes, according to Marriott International.

With 14% of the market, Marriott International is the biggest player in the luxury hotel industry. In many ways, they set the pace for other hotel chains, creating best practices that will be followed by competitors. That is why when they built the world’s tallest modular hotel in New York City, they lauded it as a “game-changing symbol” for the industry. As reported by Forbes:

According to Julia Brenner’s article in Forbes.com, “The New Marriot in Manhattan is the World’s Tallest Modular Hotel”: “[T]raditional construction times] have increased by as much as 50 percent since 2011. In addition to shorter build times, [Marriott International] has found that modular construction has additional benefits, such as reduced curbside waste and noise disruption, while resulting in an end product that is higher quality due to the factory-level precision used to create each guest room module.”

In 2018, the hospitality industry represented the fourth largest consumer of modular products. When the doors to the B1M open this year, the hospitality industry will be well on its way to closing the gap between itself and the third-place healthcare industry.

Governmental Buildings

Created to house the 1851 World’s Fair, the Crystal Palace in London awed visitors with its splendid glass ceiling. Spectacularly, the iron frames and modular construction allowed the Crystal Palace to be built in only 190 days, a mind-boggling figure.

An artistically rendered view of the length of the Crystal Palace in London which showcases a glass ceiling with iron lattice and thin iron columns; the palace is full of spectators in long dresses and elegant suits milling around statues of horses, fountains, paintings, and showcase tables.

Today, modular buildings are a staple on many government properties, from national parks to visitor centers, DOTs, fire departments, and police buildings.

Energy Sector

Modular homes have always existed in the frontier. They were present in 1670 colonial Massachusetts, in California during the Gold Rush, and even now on the frontiers of North America, where the energy sector drills the oil that powers society.

In less than half the time of traditional projects, modular builders such as Aries Residential Suites construct whole neighborhoods with all the complexity and comforts found at home. Amenities of a workforce housing neighborhood include cafeterias, theater rooms, indoor and outdoor recreation areas, and the staff to manage it all.

A tiny brown house with a gable roof, raised on short wooden stilts, with a wide front porch, two windows on either side of the door, and a grill on the front porch.

What the Future Holds

Without a doubt, industry leaders are turning towards modular buildings. They’re finding competitive advantages in mature industries through utilizing modular construction, overcoming some of the traditional limits of traditional construction. Today, companies can take advantage of time, precision, and cost savings without sacrificing on quality and customization.

At Aries, we hope to keep companies at the forefront of the modular revolution.

About Aries

At Aries, we believe there’s nothing more important than consistent delivery of exceptional service, dependability, and innovation. Aries promotes our philosophy of achieving together by learning from our clients, ensuring the development of mutually rewarding results and outcomes. All under Aries’ roof, we offer: design/build engineering, in-house manufacturing, an in-house transportation arm, construction services and general construction, civil work, land development, and capital/finance leasing. Become a customer today!

Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689.

What Industries Are Best Suited for Fast Modular Building?2025-02-08T00:29:15+00:00
11 05, 2020

Fast Temporary Classrooms from Aries’ Online Inventory

2024-07-05T20:47:54+00:00
The inside of an Aries portable gymnasium with several windows with natural light pouring in and colorful cones set up for exercise. On the right of this image is the exterior of a bright red 2-story modular classroom with a blue sky and beautiful fall foliage in the background.

Before the pandemic, the term “social distancing” had an entirely different meaning than it does today. Many school districts are planning how they will approach classroom social distancing in the future. Aries offers a wide variety of space solutions for education with swift delivery based on current inventory. Here is more information about why portable classrooms for rent provide quality extra space, even before COVID-19 was part of the global vocabulary:

The Growing Demand for Portable Classrooms

Portable classrooms are a beneficial alternative to traditionally constructed school buildings and classrooms. They are affordable, quickly manufactured, and a convenient solution to the space challenge many schools face nationwide. Some of the main challenges schools currently face include:

  • Providing enough space for a growing student body
  • Construction when school is in session
  • Completing construction quickly to accommodate new incoming students
  • Cost of construction
  • Space for administrative professionals

A modular classroom is a building that is constructed off-site in a factory setting. Instead of bringing the construction materials to the site to begin construction, the building is constructed beforehand in a manufacturing facility. Upon completion, the classroom is then shipped to its future location.

The inside of an Aries portable classroom, complete with long, wood-topped tables, black chairs, a lighting system, and several windows with natural light pouring in.

The Benefits Modular Classrooms Provide for Schools

Portable classrooms provide several benefits to school districts, including:

Flexibility

Modular classrooms, also known as portable classrooms, are a solution for schools that need additional space. A modular classroom can be delivered to a school for temporary use and then removed once it is no longer needed. Another option is after the portable classroom is delivered, the school may want to move it to a different area. These spaces can also be used as mobile office trailers for the school administrators if they need extra room.

Customization

Whether you are looking to rent or buy mobile office trailers, keep in mind that the building can be designed to fit the needs of your school. Aries also offers turn-key classrooms, which means they will build, deliver, and furnish these classrooms to meet the needs of the school.

Portable classrooms can be designed to provide sufficient space for a rapidly expanding school. Aries’ modular classrooms include HVAC systems, ADA ramps, steps, safety rails, and decks.

Speed

For many schools, a growing student body is an issue that requires an immediate solution. Portable modular classrooms can be constructed in up to half the time it takes to build a conventional structure. Depending on the immediacy of the problem, portable classrooms for rent may prove to be the best solution due to their quick turnaround time. Aries’ delivery times will vary depending on the needs of the project, but we consult with our clients and establish their time frames to verify on-time delivery.

Independence

At Aries, we build our modular classrooms with teachers in mind. Teachers will enjoy having more independence in their classrooms. When teachers’ classrooms are located inside the main building, they are subject to more oversight from the administration. Sometimes they have to share AC and heating controls with another classroom. This means teachers are likely to be subjected to classrooms that are way too cold or way too hot.

When teachers have a classroom in a portable building, they get more independence with their surrounding. They can set up their classrooms the way they want and add or remove furniture as needed. This versatility that portable classrooms provide may help to boost teacher morale over the course of the school year.

The front of Aries’ warehouse/delivery parking lot with a building bearing a sign that reads “Aries Building Systems” and the ram logo, and several large Aries’ delivery trucks parked in front.

We Provide Solutions for Fast, Temporary Portable Classrooms

Aries Building Systems offers a multitude of space solutions for school districts. From temporary portable classrooms to permanent, multi-unit campuses, let Aries bring your temporary educational facility to the next level of innovation. Our award-winning team of experienced professionals will design floor plans and structural accommodations that will meet all your relocatable education needs.

With a long history of experience serving the educational industry, Aries’ designs can be seen in community colleges, charter schools, and private or public campuses all over the country. They also can install modular buildings on below-grade concrete foundations and provide stucco exteriors. Aries’ temporary classroom solutions are available for sale or rent.

Because our manufacturing partners allow us to build your facility off-site while simultaneously progressing land development on-site, we can complete your project in just half the time of traditional construction. Every one of our modular classrooms follows stringent codes and regulations, so you’ll never have to worry about the quality and safety of your Aries’ modular facility. Indoor factory processing also means no weather delays, no postponed work schedules, and no surprises — so you can get to class on time. Check out our online inventory of modular classrooms and buildings, complete with photos and square footage information.

Get Started With Aries Building Systems Today

At Aries Building Systems, we pride ourselves on combining product quality with design expertise and technical and financial innovation. Our solid foundation includes a growing customer base and long-term strategic partnerships. Increasing our product and service offerings internationally forms a key part of our growth strategy for the future. We’ve implemented the right strategy, infrastructure, product breadth, and team to solidify our position as a premier provider of mobile office trailers and portable classrooms for rent. We are determined to continue to lead the way in both customer satisfaction and construction innovation. Request an online quote or contact us to become a customer today.

Fast Temporary Classrooms from Aries’ Online Inventory2024-07-05T20:47:54+00:00
5 05, 2020

Portable Educational Buildings for Social Distancing

2024-10-16T23:43:32+00:00
Several of Aries’ portable units: one grey modular classroom with several windows, two doors, and red trim, another similar, larger classroom, complete with accessibility ramp, also pictures are several modular storage containers.

Portable Educational Buildings for Social Distancing

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a respiratory virus with no non-pharmaceutical interventions and no vaccine, community mitigation is the most readily available intervention to help slow transmission of the virus in communities. Community mitigation is a set of actions that people and communities can take to help slow the spread of COVID-19. We have been asked to practice community mitigation strategies like social distancing during the pandemic in order to slow the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States to protect: individuals at increased risk for severe illness, including older adults and people of any age with underlying health conditions, as well as the healthcare and critical infrastructure workforces

What is social distancing?

Although social distancing is, aside from hand washing, the most widely practiced form of community mitigation, it can be difficult to know what it actually means. Social distancing refers to measures being taken to restrict where and when people can gather in order to stop or slow the spread of infectious disease. In general, six feet of separation is the distance that should be kept between people interacting within their community. Social distancing also means that people avoid large gatherings, crowded places, and groups.

COVID-19 spread happens when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks, and droplets from their mouth or nose are launched into the air and land in the mouths or noses of people nearby. The droplets can also be inhaled into the lungs. Recent studies indicate that people who are infected but do not have symptoms likely also play a role in the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing helps limit contact with infected people and contaminated surfaces. Although the risk of severe illness may be different for everyone, anyone can get and spread COVID-19.

A graphic that illustrates social distancing: four masked students standing at a distance from one another, with arrows in between them; at the top is the phrase, “Social Distancing,” with an arrow separating it.

Schools and Social Distancing

Doctors and scientists are predicting the possibility that COVID-19 will return in the fall, so while many schools are closed for the rest of the year, school districts and administrations are looking at ways to implement social distancing practices within the school setting. Some of CDC recommendations are:

  • Maintain safe classroom spaces.
  • Modify classes where students are likely to be in very close contact.
  • Whenever possible, hold physical education and music classes outside and encourage students to spread out.
  • Rearrange student desks and common seating spaces to maximize the space between students.
  • Ensure the availability of appropriate cleaning supplies (e.g., disinfectant wipes) for cleaning of high-touch surfaces.
  • Have hand sanitizer and tissues readily available for use by students and staff.
  • Reinforce hand washing routines.
  • Avoid student mixing outside of the classroom.
  • Stagger arrival and/or dismissal times.
  • Consider dividing up student entry points rather than funneling all students through the same entry space.
  • Explore the use of alternate spaces (e.g., classroom) for eating lunch and breakfast.
  • Educate staff, students, and their families and explain why this is important.
Two of Aries’ portable classroom floor plans: the 24’x64’ standard plan and the 126’x64’ eight classroom (8,064 square feet).

Aries Portable Educational Buildings

As school districts begin to seek solutions to social distancing guidelines, it’s clear that many districts will have to explore the idea of alternative spaces in order to comply with CDC recommendations and keep everyone safe. One possible solution is portable classrooms. Portable educational buildings have long been the answer to the problem of overcrowded classrooms; however, now that there are strict guidelines prohibiting overcrowding in classrooms, modular buildings will be in high demand. Aries Buildings Systems is here for you during this time: we can meet all of your portable classroom needs and offer speedy delivery. You can option to move offices or nurse’s rooms outside, with our one or two office floor plans. You can choose various modular classrooms from our several one classroom floor plans. We also have four classroom buildings, six classroom buildings, and extended double and multi-unit portables, should you plan to move several classrooms outside the main building.

All under the Aries’ roof, we offer:

  • Design/build engineering
  • In-house manufacturing
  • In-house transportation arm
  • Construction services
  • Civil work
  • Land Development
  • Capital and financial leasing

We also offer several technological features, such as wired and/or wireless, security systems, video conferencing systems, and security systems.

Aerial view of Austin High School’s temporary classroom campus on a sunny day in Houston, Texas.

 

Modular building leader Aries is here and committed to supporting you and your school district; let Aries bring your temporary educational facility to the next level of innovation. We specialize in supplying full turnkey temporary and permanent modular solutions to meet your immediate requirements. Our modular buildings are built to meet the building codes and standards as site-built structures, and they exceed the same architect-specified materials used in conventionally constructed buildings. Our award-winning team of experienced professionals will design floor plans and structural accommodations that will meet all your relocatable education needs!

Each of our floor plans is available for immediate delivery. Request a delivery today!

About Aries

In addition to portable school classrooms, Aries sells, leases, and finances prefabricated office buildings to be used as construction offices, mobile hospitals, workforce housing at oil pipeline sites, storage containers; we’d love to help you buy one for any purpose at all! We offer full turnkey solutions with exceptional customer service and robust financing options. We pride ourselves on combining product quality, design expertise, technical and financial innovation, and strategy that has already established us a first choice to customers.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-598.6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Portable Educational Buildings for Social Distancing2024-10-16T23:43:32+00:00
27 04, 2020

Emergency Buildings: Immediate Delivery!

2020-05-22T13:45:53+00:00

Large infographic with red colors and gray and white squares detailing Aries' services information as an emergency response during COVID-19.

Aries takes its role in saving lives seriously when assisting in disaster relief. During the       COVID-19 pandemic, Aries has been working hard to create solutions in providing fast, portable emergency buildings.

Aries’ manufacturing capabilities allow it to perform construction off-site. Aries can complete your healthcare project in just half the time of traditional construction.

Customizable modules and an expert team of engineering professionals make it easy to select      from a wide variety of healthcare facilities or to design a facility from scratch that meets any and all of your specific requirements. And because every one of our modular buildings is under stringent codes and regulations, you’ll never have to worry about the quality and safety of your Aries modular facility.

Aries can provide a wide scope of customizable options to meet all your temporary and/or permanent modular building needs:

  • Modular healthcare offices
  • Temporary medical facilities
  • Portable hospitals
  • Medical laboratories
  • Rehabilitation
  • Assisted living
  • Company or independent clinics
  • Wellness centers
  • Any other custom facility

As you can see, Aries understands that our industry has a special role to fulfill in crisis relief. Due to COVID-19, Aries offers fast delivery on emergency response buildings.

About Aries

At Aries, we believe there’s nothing more important than consistent delivery of exceptional service, dependability, and innovation. Aries Building Systems promotes our philosophy of achieving together by learning from our clients, ensuring the development of mutually rewarding results and outcomes. All under Aries’ roof, we accomplish the following: design/build engineering, in-house manufacturing, in-house transportation arm, construction services and general construction, civil work, land development, capital and finance leasing.

In order to find out more about Aries, visit: www.ariesbuildings.com or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

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Emergency Buildings: Immediate Delivery!2020-05-22T13:45:53+00:00
22 04, 2020

Fast Temporary Medical Buildings and Isolation Suites: Aries Delivers Now!

2024-10-16T15:07:01+00:00
Digital poster highlighting Aries’ emergency building offerings available during the COVID-19 pandemic, with their phone number (888-598-6689) and various certifications and partnership logos.

In the midst of this global pandemic, the news is filled with stories of over-crowded hospitals. ICUs in New York City and New Orleans are at capacity. Beds are filling up in Chicago. Detroit’s Henry Ford Health is full. Firstly, we here at Aries want to ensure the health and safety of our employees and our loved ones, so we have activated our protocol plan, and we remain attuned to the evolving nature of this crisis and will respond accordingly. As long as we can ensure the safety of our employees, we will continue to provide quality services during this time. Overcrowding has made it difficult for hospitals and clinics with limited space to serve their communities. Therefore, secondly, we here at Aries want to ensure that everyone who needs access to hospital services and a hospital bed has access. Our modular space solutions and portable hospitals can greatly assist during this crisis.

A bird’s eye view of an Aries service facility: several housing facilities lined up in rows of 4, with an adjoining hallway down the middle set on a stark landscape of brown dirt and with several cars in an adjacent parking lot.

Modular hospital buildings are proving to be a life-saving option for many healthcare institutions that need fast, cost-effective solutions. During this disaster, Aries’ state-of-the-art modular healthcare and medical buildings are a cost-effective way to add the space you need to better serve patients, doctors, and hospital staff, and meet growing, often urgent, demands without struggling through a time-consuming, labor-intensive construction process.

There are several advantages of choosing modular medical buildings and clinics. One being that they can be used for many different purposes and types of spaces:

  • Medical offices
  • Administrative office space
  • Ambulatory and outpatient treatment facilities
  • Emergency room expansions
  • Rehab and physical therapy centers
  • Dialysis centers
  • Testing labs
  • Diagnostic imaging centers
  • Skilled nursing facilities
  • Pharmacies
  • Laundry facilities
  • Waiting rooms
  • Wellness centers
  • Gift shops and retail space

Every medical center has its own design and architectural layout, and the many possibilities and dynamic uses of portable medical buildings can serve each medical center for whatever its unique needs may be in order to repurpose its space.

The floor plan of a modular complex that spans 136′ X 240′ 32640 SF, with space for 50+ beds and an administration area.

As a leading provider of modular buildings, Aries delivers high quality modular healthcare facilities with custom options to fit hospital and clinic specifications. We offer quick modular healthcare buildings and medical clinics for exponentially growing patient numbers and our modular healthcare facilities can be installed within days. If you’re uncertain about which building suits your needs, our team of experts can help guide you every step of the way, and our efficient delivery system makes the process smooth in a time of high anxiety.

Our services include financing solutions, like operating leases, finance leases (lease to own), and short-term or long-term leasing options. As a company that specializes in full turnkey solutions for all of your space needs, Aries also offers design support. You will be supported by a team of seasoned experts who can assist you through the design choices and building solutions specific to your project. Aries handles site location details and permit acquisitions. We offer management of all site installation including connections and extended maintenance for required utilities, temporary or permanent, including water, electricity, gas, waste management, trash, phone lines, TV, and internet. We will guide you through the infrastructure and installation project, and, at your request, Aries will add special features to accompany your modular building project including:

  • Furniture & full furnishings for any space
  • Code-compliant steps & ramps
  • Computer access & satellite systems
  • Viewing platforms & towers
  • Pedestrian bridges, decking, and canopies
  • Security lighting & safety components
  • Temporary utility options, water storage systems, and generators

The floor plan of a 60’ x 36’ 2160 SF modular complex, with space for 3 exam rooms, a procedure room, a break area, a doctor’s office, file room, business, office, waiting room, nurse’s area, closets, and restrooms.

Aries also has strategic partnerships with government cooperative agencies that can help save organizations significant amounts of money. If you purchase or lease through these co-ops, you receive prime access to our products and services at discounted rates.

In our most recent press release, we announced the launch of our “emergency building response” page. Recently we ran a blog that further details our stock of emergency medical buildings. For more information, here is the link to our customizable portable buildings page. Whatever your portable building needs are, Aries is here for you. We hope that you remain safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are some links to safety precautions and guidelines so that you and your family stay safe: Red Cross, World Health Organization, and check out the Federal Communications Commission’s page, which gives helpful consumer warnings and anti-scammer tips.

More about Aries

Aries sells prefabricated office buildings to be used as construction offices, portable school classrooms, mobile hospitals, workforce housing at oil pipeline sites, storage containers, and for disaster recovery relief, but we’d love to help you buy one for any purpose at all! We offer full turnkey solutions with exceptional customer service and robust financing options. We pride ourselves on combining product quality, design expertise, technical and financial innovation, and strategy that has already established us a first choice to customers.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6689. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Fast Temporary Medical Buildings and Isolation Suites: Aries Delivers Now!2024-10-16T15:07:01+00:00
6 04, 2020

Aries Offers Emergency Portable Buildings for COVID-19 Response

2024-10-16T23:26:53+00:00
A white with red outline temporary building, with plenty of windows and a wheelchair-accessibility ramp. Above the structure is the word Aries, with the ram logo to the left.

During Hurricane Harvey, Aries raised money for families affected by the natural disaster; we also provided Houston residents with temporary housing. Today, our nation; the entire globe – is in the midst of a pandemic. Aries’ commitment to service, especially during times of disaster, is a part of Aries’ values. The current Covid-19 disaster is no different. At Aries, we have inventory, emergency portable buildings, that we believe will assist hospitals, doctors, and other heroes during this crisis, and we want those who need it to get it as quickly as possible.

Here at Aries, our primary concern is the safety of our family members, employees, our customers, and our neighbors, both near and far. In Aries’ most recent press release, Katie Roman, Vice President at Aries stated, “Our customer is at the core of everything we do, and in light of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, our top priority is keeping our customers, staff, and communities safe as we continue to closely monitor the situation. Aries has activated our protocol plan, and we will remain steadfast in our attention to the evolving circumstances and respond accordingly. Our goal is to continue to provide quality services during this time ensuring safety and business continuity. We understand that response time is vital and know that our modular space solutions can greatly assist during this crisis.” In order to meet the possible demands for temporary medical units and portable hospitals, Aries has created an emergency building landing page, complete with information regarding temporary medical buildings and portable housing buildings, all available for immediate delivery.

The floor plan of an Aries medical clinic, a modular complex at 35′ X 108′, 3780 square feet.

From tent hospitals to naval ship medical centers, our country is witnessing an overwhelming influx of Covid-19 patients. State and federal government officials are creating dynamic solutions in order to care for every person affected by Covid-19. Aries is proud to be part of this dynamic solution when it comes to emergency buildings. We specialize in an array of temporary and portable housing, including long-term temporary medical space for use in disaster recovery or emergency department overflow. We understand the need for temporary medical space that hospitals and clinics face when undergoing disaster response. Aries offers the best solution when space, time, and code-compliant temporary medical buildings are critical.

The floor plan image of a modular housing six sleeper unit, 10’ x 60’, 600 square feet; each bedroom is about 10’ x 10’.

For over a decade, Aries has been providing portable housing units in a wide variety of floorplans. We provide isolation suites or multiplex workforce housing units equipped with private restrooms for emergency room doctors, nurses, techs, and cleaning crew. There are also several other ways in which hospital systems can make use of portable building units: modular healthcare offices, medical laboratories, independent clinics, or any other custom facility that might fit your purposes.

Our desire is to deliver space as quickly as possible, so anyone who needs a private, warm bed has access to one. Whatever your portable building needs are, Aries is here for you. As most of us are isolating in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in order to protect the most vulnerable members of our population, it is natural to feel anxiety, fear, and sadness. However, so long as we all take the proper safety precautions we are doing our part to protect one another. Even though we feel alone, we’re all in this together, and we can get through this…together.

About Aries

At Aries, we believe there’s nothing more important than consistent delivery of exceptional service, dependability, and innovation. Aries Building Systems promotes our philosophy of achieving together by learning from our clients, ensuring the development of mutually rewarding results and outcomes. All under Aries’ roof, we accomplish the following: design/build engineering, in-hous e manufacturing, in-house transportation arm, construction services and general construction, civil work, land development, capital and finance leasing.

In order to find out more about Aries, visit: www.ariesbuildings.com or call (U.S.) 1-888-598-6681. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

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Aries Offers Emergency Portable Buildings for COVID-19 Response2024-10-16T23:26:53+00:00
18 03, 2020

Case Study: Aries Designs Modular Facility for Outreach Program

2024-11-13T18:01:15+00:00

: A large, gray modular structure designed by Aries and built by Whitley Manufacturers: grass in the foreground, trees and blue sky in the background.

When Fred Long, School Director of Facility services at the Kent School District in Washington state approached Aries in 2016 to design and develop the new concept with a 12,500 square foot permanent modular structure, Aries was more than happy to accept his challenge. The new structure would be for The Outreach Program (TOP), a program that prepares special needs students for their future by providing community-based transition services to enhance their quality of life upon school completion. TOP currently serves 44 students and employs four certified teachers and 13 paraprofessionals. Their current facility was built in 1951 and in need of some updates. Its 4,420 square foot layout does not provide the room needed for growth, let alone sustain its current enrollment. With the additional space, the new facility provides ample room and will allow the program to grow into the future.

The scheduled deadline for this project was the fall of 2016, so Aries devised a concurrent construction approach that saved almost 40% of the project timeline. Kim Neill, Aries Vice President of Major Projects, along with an accomplished Aries team, used an off-site building method and supervised the site preparation at the Kent Phoenix Academy, in Kent, Washington, while Whitley Manufacturing built the structure in Marysville, WA.

The floorplan design for the TOP program: multipurpose room in the middle, classrooms around the sides of the multipurpose room. Also included in the floorplan is a reception area, two offices, the staff lounge, a health room, and kitchen.

The new building includes five classrooms, one of which will be set up as an occupational and physical therapy room. The facility also has a staff workroom, a multipurpose room, and two residential kitchens — one of which is handicapped accessible so that students have the opportunity to learn how to cook and possibly then cook for themselves and each other. TOP students and teachers will enjoy plenty of natural lighting because Aries designed the structure to have four modular roof sections above the large common area with high vaulted ceilings that open to a row of clear-story windows.

“This was a special project for us here at Aries: we love it when our values align with the work that we do.” Says Mary Grim, Aries Regional Administrator. Aries has a long history of providing services to those in need. Aries specializes in disaster relief and provides considerable help in the form of emergency lodging and workforce solutions for emergency first responders – as well as temporary to permanent modular construction and modular building solutions. Grim adds, “With this project, we are happy to create a space where young people with disabilities can learn and thrive, be in community, and become independent all at the same place.”

 

ABOUT ARIES

 

Aries offers a multitude of education building solutions for school districts – from temporary portable classrooms to permanent, multi-unit campuses, let Aries bring your temporary educational facility to the next level of innovation. Our award-winning team of experienced professionals will design floor plans and structural accommodations that will meet all your relocatable education needs.

Become a customer today! Visit Aries: www.ariesbuildings.com, or call (U.S.) 1-888-995-2971. You can also contact us via our website, or request a quote here.

Case Study: Aries Designs Modular Facility for Outreach Program2024-11-13T18:01:15+00:00
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