The Rosneath-based arts center, Cove Park, overlooks the
stunning Loch Long in Scotland, and, since 2002, has had a
set of container buildings, known as The Cubes.
featured by many news programs because
his company built the first conventional
looking home for a government project
in St. Petersburg, Florida, and also
made headlines because he used a new
Ceramic Insulation Paint technology from
NASA as the insulation.
Building conventional looking homes, but
with new Eco-Green technologies. David
Cross and others have shown how easy it
is to create conventional homes by using
multiple ISBU shipping containers.
With the establishment of the ISBU
Association in early 2007, the growth
of quality ISBU shipping container
construction has exploded.
ISBU’s are now more easily adapted
to conventional housing and office
structures, both on-site and with a growth
of new ISBU shipping container Prefabs
and Modular companies cropping up
across the US and globally.
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Commercial Uses of
Shipping Containers
Most people only think ISBU shipping
containers are used for simple home
construction, emergency housing and
maybe secure storage units.
In reality, the use of shipping containers
for the base of commercial construction
is hot or even hotter than residential
home construction.
In 2007 some big players were in the
news for their use of ISBU shipping
containers commercially.
SG Block constructed a very conventional
looking prefab office building for the US
Army, Travelodge became the first of many
new Travelodge Hotels to build with prefab
ISBU shipping containers, and even Sun
Microsystems jarred the business and
technology sector with it’s BlackBox
Data-center that is self contained and can
be shipped anywhere globally in hours.
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