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Chaminade / Education Building

Chaminade University of Honolulu continues to meet its expansion needs with modular units. Customization allows the new buildings to keep the Spanish flavor of the rest of the campus.

Summer 2002, Chaminade University added its third modular building using Hardy Panel Stucco as the exterior siding, painted to match the existing architecture.

A Spanish parapet roof detail was included along the length of the modular building. To visually break the long horizontal walls of this eight-wide complex, end walls were designed to jog out one foot. This complex consists of two large classrooms, thirteen faculty offices, men's, women's, and unisex restrooms, staff lounge, conference/seminar room, copier room, janitor's closet, and telephone data room.

If installed in the factory, the roof parapets would have made the building too tall for transportation. The manufacturer designed the roof system to accept the parapets, which were shipped loose in the building and then installed on site.

The modules were trucked to the site in the middle of the night so as not to disrupt classes being held during the daylight hours.