How much does a modular classroom cost in the UK?
A modular classroom's cost is driven by pupil capacity, toilet provision, heating, glazing for natural light and the groundworks at your school. Design the classroom online to see its calculated total.
Schools usually need teaching space quickly and without a building site in the middle of term. Modules are manufactured while your base is being prepared, then delivered finished, so the disruption is measured in days rather than months. The examples below show how different module counts can serve different needs; your exact mix of unit sizes determines the final total.
Typical configurations
Choose the mix of unit sizes and fit-out you need. The designer shows the final total for that exact configuration.
| Modules | What it realistically fits |
|---|---|
| 1 module | Small group room, intervention space, SEN or nurture room, staff office |
| 2 modules | Standard teaching space for roughly 15–20 pupils, or a group room plus store |
| 3 modules | Larger teaching room with a store and accessible WC |
| 4 modules | Full 30-pupil classroom with cloaks, store and WC, or two smaller rooms |
| 6 modules | Two classrooms with a shared lobby, WCs and a small staff area |
Typical specification
- •Insulated walls, floor and roof with plastered and painted finishes
- •Double-glazed windows sized for daylight and ventilation
- •LED lighting, power sockets and a consumer unit
- •Optional accessible WC and hand-wash basin
- •Optional cloaks area, storage partition or internal lobby
What your site needs
- •A level, load-bearing base sized to the finished building
- •Delivery access for a lorry, and space for a crane or hiab where required
- •Power, water and drainage brought to the module position
- •Planning permission or a temporary-use application where the local authority requires it
Costs on top of the building
These site-specific items sit outside the designed building total and are quoted for your project.
- •VAT at the prevailing rate
- •A level, load-bearing base or foundation sized to the building
- •Transport to site, quoted on distance and access
- •Offloading, and crane or hiab attendance where access requires it
- •Final connection to mains power, water and drainage by your own contractor
- •Planning permission or building control fees where these apply
P300–P700 range, or bespoke
- P300 unit
- 2.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 2.7m × 2.0m usable internally (5.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P400 unit
- 3.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 3.7m × 2.0m usable internally (7.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P500 unit
- 4.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 4.7m × 2.0m usable internally (9.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P600 unit
- 5.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 5.7m × 2.0m usable internally (11.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- P700 unit
- 6.9m × 2.2m externally; approximately 6.7m × 2.0m usable internally (13.4 m² usable internal area per separate unit)
- Configuration
- Mix P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units to create tailored footprints and shapes
- Bespoke
- Bespoke sizes considered to suit your brief — contact us
- Joined internal space
- Open joins remove the adjoining shell walls and can increase usable space. Final clear area depends on layout and partitions.
- Unit height
- 2.40m external / 2.16m internal
- Storeys
- Up to two storeys, subject to final project design
- Delivery
- UK mainland and Northern Ireland — transport quoted separately
Adacon modular buildings use P300, P400, P500, P600 and P700 units with external lengths of 2.9m, 3.9m, 4.9m, 5.9m and 6.9m, a common 2.2m width and 2.40m external / 2.16m internal height. The sizes can be combined to create more tailored floor areas and building shapes, joined side by side or stacked to two storeys subject to the final project design.
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