Thinking inside the B x
New Urban Living
Innovative architects
turn to shipping
containers for
affordable housing
solutions.
Shipping Container Home construction
has become one of the biggest home and
office construction trends globally.
Since 2005 shipping containers began
to appear in many news stories in the
U.S., Canada, UK, Netherlands, China,
Australia, New Zealand, and much of
Europe. Shipping container construction
has become popular for not only homes,
but for offices, hotels, student housing,
safe rooms, and emergency shelters.
Lemons To Lemonade
The original interest began when the world
realized that shipping containers were
stacking up in the ports of every major city
in the world. In the United States alone the
estimate was nearly 1 million in 2005.
After much publicity and interest, the total
in the U.S. is said to have dropped to
about 500,000 by the end of 2007. Similar
decreases have been seen in many other
countries also.
It is well known that the rapid growth of
manufacturing in China and the global
thirst by virtually country for the lower
priced, high technology products from
China has given to happier consumers
and lower prices globally, but the side
effect has been the one-way shipping of
all the containers bringing the products
from China.
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