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The ISBU Association is the only recognized organization to the ISBU and Shipping Container home industries. Their purpose is to organize, educate, and promote the use and awareness of shipping container construction and the related Eco-green technologies. All our research and information is Member supported.
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DwellBox Visionaries- The Customer, The Contractor and The City
The DwellBox Project in Boone, North Carolina is a prime example of ‘What’s Right With America’, or what should be. The CNN program of What’s Right With America always comes to mind when we see the unusual, which should actually be common.
ISBU shipping container housing is growing [...]
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Global Leader In ISBU Shipping Container Housing
Quinten de Gooijer, the President of TempoHousing enRoute from projects in Australia and Philippines meets in China with ISBU Association Director Barry Naef to discuss the new growth and marketing plans of Netherlands based TempoHousing company.
Although most of us know TempoHousing for their famous 1000 unit Keetwonen project in Amsterdam, however TempoHousing [...]
September Was The Month of Contrasts For SG Blocks & ConGlobal
September 2008 was the best month or the worst month, depending on where you live.
An Eco-Green show was a rave for SG Blocks and shipping container building contractors in the U.S. while Canada and other countries have put them on their “Black List” as the [...]
PFNC Designs and Builds Container Homes For Workers In Mexico
PFNC Shipping Container Home
These ISBU shipping container homes will soon reside in Mexico according to the PFNC Company based in Corrales, New Mexico. As most readers quickly realize, these units are not U.S. or even European standard but they are very acceptable for housing in Mexico [...]
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ISBA Founder’s Son Is Casualty of Contaminated Milk In China
On Friday, September 25, physicians in China confirmed that Jie Naef, the 2 year old son of Barry Naef and his wife Yanhua was another victim of China’s wide spread Melamine Milk scandal. The head of the World Health Organization said yesterday this was the largest global health safety event in recent years.
For months they knew [...]
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Shipping Container Home Project Gets Approval In North Carolina
Congratulations to DwellBox, they are only the second ISBU shipping container housing project to be approved and built in North Carolina, the other project was the Military offices at Fort Bragg.
We are especially proud of them because they are ISBU Association members and besides their success at [...]
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Shipping Container Projects From Tempo You Haven’t Seen
In an exclusive interview last week with Quinten de Gooijer President of TempoHousing, we not only got new and better photos of the original TempoHousing projects but the inside story of their new projects and expansion programs globally.
TempoHousing is famous for their Keetwonen student housing in Amsterdam, but there is [...]
Business In A Box: Condo Office Made Of Shipping Containers
A solar powered Condominium Sales office in Houston Texas has been constructed from recycled 20′ shipping containers. METLAB and their design partner Ttweak have chosen recycled ISBU shipping containers to house their temporary sales office for the Mirabeau “green” condominium project in Houston.
Since the Condo project [...]
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Luxury Shipping Container Home Near Completion In France
A prominent French architect brings another shipping container project to France. This project is a luxury home built in the beautiful French country side.
We have the project very well documented with more than 50 construction photos including the house plans. You can see the full construction project at our new Cubic Inspirations [...]
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