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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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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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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Modular Construction To “Green” The Caribbean Here is a container construction company in Puerto Rico that has found the secret to success in any country. Their modular construction with multiple exterior designs fit every country, culture and neighborhood. Many people don’t fully realize that Puerto Rico is a very stable U.S. Territory with all the [...]
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The Feasibility Of Container Construction In Haiti Since January 12 our office has been flooded with calls and emails wondering if we will get involved with the relief work, aid, donations and re-building of the new Haiti with shipping container housing. Every time such disasters happen, the first thoughts of many intelligent thinkers is “container [...]
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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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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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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ISBU Association Names John C. Stangel “2009 Member of The Year” The ISBU Association has chosen to honor Mr. John Stangel as the 2009 Member of The Year. The “Member of The Year” award is given annually to ISBU Association members who have contributed the most in promoting ISBU technology globally. John is preceded by [...]