When I was in high school, I joined the cross country team because my older brother was on it, running requires only as much coordination as it takes to consistently make ground contact with your feet and there were no cuts. I quit after a year. I wasn’t interested in attending sporting events either. In fact, the only sporting events I attended while in high school were those that I was participating in. This was a shame, because I remember that we had a pretty good football team when I was in school. We didn’t, however, have our own field.
Because we didn’t have our own field, our football team played on a field around ten miles away that was maintained by the city and hosted a handful of other schools that were also without fields of their own. This changed, though, when the field underwent major renovations, which displaced the football games to a field even farther away. Shortly thereafter, our school gathered the necessary funds and built its own field.
Naturally, the new facilities include the goal posts, the stadium lights and the field itself, but it also includes a new addition: a press box. The high school football games in my city are broadcast on local AM radio, and I’d assume that the press box was where the person calling the game was seated. When the contractors assigned to the construction project were planning on how to approach building the press box, I’m sure it was a no-brainer. This situation is perfectly suited for the inclusion of a modular building.
Modular buildings are constructed offsite and assembled onsite. Because of the awkward positioning of the press box atop a set of bleachers, it’s likely that the assembly of the modular building was easier and less expensive than the construction of a non-modular alternative would have been. Despite being prefabricated and then assembled onsite, the press box is equipped with all of the same amenities as non-modular alternatives and was probably manufactured for a fraction of the cost of alternative construction methods. Because I attended a private school that was funded by donations and tuition, these kinds of savings were very important. In a way, the structure is a metaphor for the benefits of modular buildings. Modular buildings offer all of the same benefits as most non-modular structures, and they usually can be built more inexpensively.
