Innovative Eco-Restaurant Gets Thumbs Down Again From Charlotte City Council This past week the Charlotte NC City Council again deferred approval for an Eco-Restaurant. The “Lunch Box”, with solar panels and designed from a recycled shipping container, won’t be attracting tourists and tourist $$ dollars to Charlotte anytime soon, no matter how creative and well packaged it is by [...]
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TempoHousing Ships 72 Room Container Hotel To Haiti Two ISBU’s create two 16×18′ luxury suites with corridor between TempoHousing of Amsterdam has completed the fabrication and modification of 72 ISBU containers at their factory. The containers are now on a ship en route to the main port in Haiti. Quinten de Gooijer, president of TempoHousing, contacted us a few [...]
Shipping Container Medical Clinic Arrives In Haiti The first shipping container based medical clinic arrived in Haiti last month and is now serving Haitian refugees as Haiti continues to heal from January’s earthquake. Containers, also known as ISBU’s are a growing trend globally for clinics, temporary housing, as well as luxury homes. The non-profit group Containers [...]
Stunning Shipping Container Demand Creates Shortage; Creates Correction… In only a few months a drastic change in the demand for shipping containers causes the biggest shipping container shortage in the history of the global shipping industry! The sudden global demand for shipping containers has caught the global shipping industry completely off guard and the result [...]
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Not Just Concept Drawings, But The Real Thing… Prefab and “ready-to-use” ISBU container units are in big demand. There are many companies out there that advertise designs and concept drawings but have really never produced their first unit. Too often, architects and housing manufacturers want the media attention they know is available when they shoot out Green prefab [...]
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Architecture For Humanity Promotes Vancouver ISBU Container Home Construction Quick Homes Super Challenge is off and running in Vancouver Canada to promote, design, and build attractive emergency and transitional housing using ISBU containers as their superstructure. This visionary program has been organized by Architectural for Humanity Vancouver, in association with the Design Foundation of British Columbia, and [...]
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Shipping Container Architecture And Container Technology Combined Here is the complete shipping container construction “How To” and container technology “Resource book” you’ve been waiting for from the ISBU Association. For the past three years everyone has been asking for a complete and credible book on shipping container architecture and container construction. The new BizGuide named “Container Technology [...]
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The Never Ending Need For Containerized Emergency Rooms It’s obvious that big disasters get the biggest news. But even on a calm week, every country in the world has a shortage of emergency rooms, medical facilities, and hospitals. Shipping containers and ISBU technology is a global solution to almost everything; and a profitable technology no matter what economic [...]
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Professional 3D Shipping Container Drawings For Google SketchUp Is it professional 3D CAD, or simply a 3D High Definition template for Google SketchUp? It’s actually a combination of both and they are a very big hit for engineering professionals and novice designers alike. These are the new G-Series Pro templates from the ISBU Association and are [...]
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32 Shipping Containers Create Three Level Office Complex In Rhode Island Tiny Rhode Island may now have the largest shipping container based structure in North America. So what happened to the other much hyped projects? Jay Cox-Chapman from Stack Design Build contacted us this morning and informed us they had just uploaded a video of their construction progress on the [...]
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