Architecture | NPR Shipping container buildings may be cool — but they're not always green Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco ...

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily-used container — and the energy bills are through the ...

Converted shipping containers from Container Storage Hawaii were used for the shelter on Sand Island Access Road. They had to be made from new, never-used containers, to avoid possible contamination ...

For most of its 73 years in business, Midwest Systems has been focused on the storage, repair and handling of the 3,500 steel shipping containers kept at its 30-acre yard in north St. Louis ...

Dear architects: Stop trying to make shipping container buildings happen They're cheap and everywhere. But the big steel boxes aren't as good a fit for human habitation as all those design ...

This project would use steel shipping containers to hold clients’ belongings rather than erecting a building to house the storage units.

From the Sacramento Bee: The outside walls of Der Biergarten’s shipping containers – a 40-by-8-by-81/2-feet box that serves as the kitchen, bar, ordering station and storage, and a 20-footer ...

The shipping container, which was used for storage, exploded after 5 a.m. at Kercher Electric ... Arbor Builders, another neighboring business, is also facing massive damage to its office building.

Carl Coffman is betting that in the near future, people will want to live in shipping containers. After 35 years as an excavation contractor, Coffman decided he wanted to spark a conversation about ...

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily used container — and the energy bills are through the ...