Editor on October 6th, 2008

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 [...]

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Editor on September 28th, 2008

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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Editor on September 27th, 2008

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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Editor on September 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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Editor on September 9th, 2008

A Mobile Sporting Goods BizPod Near The Beach- Or Anywhere

Business In A Box Mobile Store

A “Business In A Box” mobile shipping container store. This very awesome shipping container BizPod is sure to draw maximum traffic and interest in any location.  …small investment-big profit.
You can see this first at our new Cubic Inspirations website which will open [...]

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Editor on September 8th, 2008

LabZero Awarded “2008 ISBU Best Designs Award”
 

Best ISBU Designs Award

As you have seen there are many shipping container designs and architectures out there, although inspiring, most are either very plain or simply not realistic or usable.
The ISBU Association has reviewed nearly two hundred which our ISBA Members have submitted but this LabZero architecture by Italian architect-designer Flavio Galvagni [...]

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Editor on September 4th, 2008

The American Red Cross Use ISBU Shipping Containers For Disasters
As hurricanes hit again the Red Cross in the U.S. and other countries prepare shipping containers for immediate food, medical supplies and housing. The stock piles of shipping containers have many uses and benefits. Later the ISBU shipping containers can be easily recycled and used again for [...]

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Editor on September 3rd, 2008

The Truth Is Confirmed

…purchased from ISBU Association Member

Not that we actually doubted that this mysterious Atlanta home was made of six (6) 40HC ISBU’s but since there was no “official” information, and even incorrect information posted by some websites. Obviously we were quite reluctant to say anything for sure.
Way back in March of this year we posted [...]

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Editor on August 29th, 2008

Popular 3D Plans, Designs and Templates For Shipping Container Homes
More shipping container home plans, designs and 3D templates are being added with a new AccuDraw version that will be available Tuesday September 9. 

More Designs Available To The Public

The popularity of these Shipping Container Home designs, plans and templates are due to there ability to view in [...]

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Editor on August 27th, 2008

Immitation Shipping Container Homes Being Advertised
We have received many complaints of this ad and other similar ads which appear to be ISO shipping container based housing. However, they are NOT made from either new or recycled shipping containers.  They are not CSA approved.
Only the metel corners are “ISO standard” corners, …just the 4 metal corners have been added [...]

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