When every term matters, you need good classrooms yesterday. Portacom provides modern, MoE-approved learning spaces delivered fast, built tough and designed to support learning, creativity, safety, and community.
Standard Designs, Built for Modern Learning
As an approved manufacturer in the Ministry of Education’s Offsite Manufactured Buildings (OMB) programme, Portacom is proud to bring new standard designs to life - designed for scalability, built for performance, and delivered with speed and certainty.
With trusted modular expertise, local manufacturing capability, and a proven track record across Aotearoa, we deliver MoE-compliant solutions that make it easier to create quality learning environments - fast. These new standard designs respond to roll growth, specialist teaching, and future-focused education needs, supporting the way students learn today and tomorrow.
Why Portacom for Schools
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For schools navigating renovations, managing unexpected roll growth, or needing temporary space while planning a long-term solution, our short-term hire options provide ultimate flexibility. Whether you need a single classroom or a full temporary campus, Portacom delivers ready-to-use modular buildings that meet Ministry of Education standards. You get the space you need - fast - without the need to compromise on quality, compliance, or comfort for students and staff.
With no long-term commitment, hiring gives schools the freedom to scale up or down as needed. Our modular classrooms, offices, and support buildings arrive fully fitted and can include ramps, landings, covered walkways, and more. It's a smart way to manage transitions without disrupting learning - perfect for tight timelines, growing enrolments, or projects where permanent infrastructure isn’t yet in place.
For long-term school campuses, expansions or custom spaces like science labs, multi-purpose halls or admin blocks, Portacom delivers permanent modular buildings that go the distance. Built with durability in mind and tailored to your design brief, our modular solutions provide all the functionality of a traditional build - with the added speed, flexibility and quality assurance of offsite construction.
... We have been impressed with all aspects of the build and at the end of this process we have a wonderful classroom block ready for term 3. It has been a pleasure to have worked with everyone involved.
The Portacom team were flexible and agile, responding to every challenge with a solution focused approach. They are very experienced at working with schools, understanding the requirements of a modern classroom. The buildings, while temporary, are of excellent quality, warm, large and light. Staff and students enjoy working in them.
From a Delivery Manager perspective, Portacom is a top-tier organisation who are an absolute pleasure to work with. Their communication with both the Ministry and the school ensured that problems were solved collaboratively and the result was that all aspects of delivery flowed smoothly.
The initial meeting between myself and Portacom was a significant meeting for me. I needed to know what the whole process looked like and sounded like to keep our tamariki safe. Because this was my first classroom to be built while I'm the principal, I was appreciative of the frequent updates, i.e. when the segments were arriving, the handing over of the key, looking for jobs that need attention.
We've already had quite a few of our teachers say they'd rather teach it out here than in our new building and quite a few of our students feel the same way.
Portacom always provide high quality classrooms, everything down to the finish, to the soft closing cabinetry and the fact that we can get all of this inside of a tight budget, it’s outstanding.
[Portacom’s] incredibly organised response and early consultation preparation, had a significant positive impact on the project outcome.
Safety and Sustainability are important to us too. From a safety perspective, the controlled production environment at our factories greatly contributes to lessening the risk of injury associated with construction. Our buildings are all fitted with insulation and LED or fluorescent lighting, and we're always making design improvements to our fleet to further improve their energy efficiency.
Most importantly, when you build with Portacom, the building itself is reusable. If you're hiring a building from us for a short or medium-term need, you'll rest easy knowing that the same building has been used before and will be used again for another project.
Portacom offers the security and peace of mind of our Building Renter Protection (BRP). Much like a damage waiver on a rental car, BRP is a low-cost alternative to standard property insurance.
Portacom has a team of highly qualified, experienced project managers working across New Zealand. Our team will work with you to understand your needs, design a building (or multiple buildings, depending on the size and scope of your project) to meet those needs then actively manage construction and installation for you. All the while they'll keep you updated as your building progresses towards completion.
Modular building is a method of design and construction which produces uniform, multipurpose buildings which can easily be installed and removed to produce a temporary space. Without the need for permanent foundations, the modular concept also inherently lends itself to scaling up and down as the demand for space changes.
