Portable Educational Buildings for Social Distancing
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a respiratory virus with no nonpharmaceutical 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.
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.
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.
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.