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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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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8′x40′ Container Homes That Are Only For The Rich And Famous? You have certainly seen many beautiful motorhomes cruising down the freeways but did you realize these luxury ”mobile condos” are virtually the same dimensions as a common shipping container, or even smaller? Here is an interesting comparison of their similar technology. Quarter million dollar luxury motorhomes are the same size [...]
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Project GreenCube: University Education Program In Southern California Students from various West coast colleges and universities have become part of the Project GreenCube University Education Program funded by the ISBU Association and it’s global Members. The GreenCube Education program began at Clemson University in the Eastern United States in January of this year and has now [...]
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Envision Prefab Manufactures ISBU Based Housing Our ISBU Association members continue to prove that ISBU shipping container based housing can be as beautiful and trendy as any conventional housing but with greater strength and easier construction. Envision Prefab based in Boca Raton Florida promises to be one of the finest examples of quality design and construction. [...]
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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 [...]
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