Many Papua New Guinean children are going to school for the first time in Rhodes built schools. 70 School Kit Sets, each comprising a double classroom, ablutions block and teacher’s house, were funded by the Australian government (DFAT). Rhodes designed the podium buildings so that they could be assembled from a finite set of consistent components but without compromising flexibility of lay out or site-sensitive design.

This is just one way Rhodes keeps the costs of vital community infrastructure projects as low as possible.

Rhodes redesigned and supplied the steel framed kit-sets offering a higher material durability and lower maintenance requirement compared to the previously specified timber kits – another cost saving for the client and the community. Rhodes is also engaged as the Construction Contractor for some of the sets.