The Education Ministry is preparing to replace nearly half its stock of relocatable school classrooms.
The ministry says almost half of the 6500 relocatable classrooms now in use were built before 1979 and 42% (about 2700) need to be replaced.
It needs transportable classrooms to use as temporary accommodation during building work at schools, and because roll increases at many schools are only temporary.
The Principals Federation says schools spend a lot of money maintaining old prefabricated buildings (prefabs) and many are past their use-by date.
However, the federation is worried some schools will get new relocatable buildings in the project when they really need permanent replacements.
