Rental costs for demountable buildings, supplied by a Victorian company, at Dunalley Primary School are $10,700 a month.
THE decision to hire demountable buildings from a mainland company to rebuild the Dunalley Primary School has been criticised by the Housing Industry Association.
HIA Tasmania executive director Stuart Clues said the decision was "indefensible".
The Education Department confirmed most of the buildings for the school, which was destroyed in January's bushfire, came from Victoria and cost $280,000 to transport and install.
Rental costs for the buildings are $10,700 a month. This could see the cost blow out to more than $536,000 in two years.
Mr Clues said the move was a "mindless knee-jerk reaction".
"Anything they wanted to do could have been done locally," he said.
"There's no reason why the school couldn't have been rebuilt locally for a fraction of that cost.
"It's a lost opportunity for the local Dunalley community, in terms of providing an economic stimulus for the region."
Despite the school reopening just 40 days after it was destroyed in the fire, Mr Clues said local businesses could have potentially completed the project in less time.
"We could have done it faster, that's what I'm prepared to say," he said.
"In the time they took to transport them here, we could have built it using local materials and local workers.
"It's not just the Dunalley issue and the bushfire, [there is] a culture that exists within government and within departments [to] take the easy route and deal with one large mainland contractor, instead of fielding work to a number of local smaller businesses."
-2Mainland firm Ausco Modular provided five classrooms, one staff administration building, a library and toilet blocks.
Education Department deputy secretary Andrew Finch said the demountable buildings were "already in existence" and were not made specifically for the project.
"Following a public tendering process Ausco has been a preferred supplier to the Department of Education for the provision of demountable buildings and the company specialises in purpose-built classroom buildings," Mr Finch said.
hannah.martin@news.com.au
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