admin on July 25th, 2010

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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Editor on May 1st, 2010

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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Sr. Editor on March 11th, 2010

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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Editor on December 2nd, 2009

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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Editor on November 29th, 2009

ISBU Shipping Container Technology Provides Instant Jails And Prisons Overcrowded jails and prisons are a growing issue in the US and also globally. This demand can now be filled instantly with modular jail and prison cells made from recycled ISBU shipping containers. One of the companies leading this technology is DRC Logistics in Mobile, Alabama. We were first made aware [...]

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Editor on October 30th, 2009

The “Small Is Smart” Container Home Concept Is Growing… Architects Geoffrey Fulton and Carla Salomon have been designing ISBU container based housing for a few years now but their “Small Is Smart” container home concept is making waves all the way to the US, Canada, UK and Europe. The ISBU Association has been growing quite rapidly [...]

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Editor on October 6th, 2009

Engineers Prepare For Eco-Green Container Construction Trends Many global engineering companies have prepared for the Green technology trends. Kimley-Horn is not just one of the engineering firms following the Eco-Green trends, they are one of the most recognized engineering  leaders setting the trends.  Kimley-Horn joined the ISBU Association in April of 2009 as Corporate Members and since then they have [...]

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Editor on October 5th, 2009

Popularity Of ISBU Association Website Causes Overload Crash For the first time since May 1, 2008 the ISBU Association website became too overloaded and crashed! Beginning last Friday our website visitors and ISBA Members noticed our News website slowing down drastically, with the speed changing from 1 second to more than a minute at times. [...]

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Editor on July 21st, 2009

Skanska Offers Sustainable Education For Container Housing Program Skanska, one of the world leaders in construction and cost estimation has become a major participant in the Summer Studio container housing design program in Atlanta.  We are so very grateful to Skanska and the many other construction professionals, architects and engineers who are donating their valuable time and resources [...]

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Editor on July 2nd, 2009

Ready To Use 3D 360° Templates For Container Home Plans and Designs Shipping container home plans, designs and drawings are now available for the DIY consumer and non-skilled professionals.  After more than 10 months of development Qube-360 templates are finally available to the public. In August 2008 the ISBU Association began a project to develop realistic 3D [...]

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