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What about Shipping Container Housing Guide?


Shipping Container Housing Guide is a site that came up after we searched the net for shipping containers information and saw that a lot of people and websites are talking about how can you build a house using shipping containers.

Who are we? We're not container specialists, engineers or architects. We're a bunch of young people who love to surf the net and thought that this will be an in interesting idea.

We plan to update periodically the information on this site with articles written by real specialists and with our own thoughts and opinions. We want this site to be your primary source of information regarding shipping container housing.

Now, let's get to the point.

shipping containers The shipping containers industry produces a lot of these containers each and every year. We're talking mainly about ISO containers. They are used to transport goods all over the world. It's estimated that 90 percent of the world's trade today moves in containers. One hundred million container loads crisscross the world's oceans each year in over 5,000 container ships. There is a very big chance that a lot of the stuff you own or buy came to you in a shipping container. Malcolm McLean invented them and they represented a real revolution in the transportation industry back in the mid 1950s.

These shipping containers create problems too. After they are used a few times they become used shipping containers and nobody wants them. Used shipping containers take a lot of space and represent a potential source of pollution. Then some people thought "why not use these containers for something else?". Why not build a house, a shelter, even a whole neighbourhood? We really don't know who were the first that had this idea. If you know, please tell us.

Right now, this phenomenon grows up because shipping container housing can represent a real solution to social and ecological problems.



Shipping Container House Blog
Shipping container homes and more

Shipping Containers Housing Benefits
Why would you wanna use shipping containers instead of traditional construction materials? Find out about shipping containers housing benefits.

Shipping Container Costs
Shipping Container Costs – one of the variable costs of shipping container house building

Building with shipping containers
Starting with the major aspects of building with shipping containers.

Container Housing Companies
Interested in buying a ready-made container house? Find out some things about container housing companies.

Projects for shipping container houses and community buildings
Projects for shipping container houses and community buildings, projects that make use of the advantages of corrugated shipping containers to build sustainable buildings.

Container living: Some Villain Thoughts About a Container Village
Container living could become a solution for current housing crisis. But shipping containers have yet nothing to do with housing in Romania.

Shipping Containers Industry Overview
Shipping Containers role in transportation and trade globalization history.

Container Liability Transfer between buyer, seller and container carriers
Agreements and contracts governing the container liability transfer between buyer, seller and container carriers.

Shipping container standard dimensions
Shipping container standard dimensions

Shipping Container Transportation & Handling
Things you should consider for transportation and handling of the shipping container when you are about to buy them for building a shipping container house.

Web searching for used shipping container
As you can buy an used shipping container, first you should know how to find it. Let’s do a short foray in the used shipping container web searching process.

Modern Day Building Blocks: Shipping Containers Used for Sale
With hundreds of thousands of abandoned shipping containers, is now common to see the sign: “ Shipping Containers Used for Sale ”

Standardized Shipping Containers History
The history of standardized shipping containers

Shipping Container House
Build A Green Shipping Container House

The 20 Foot Shipping Container
Details on the the 20 foot shipping container

Shipping Container Specification: The Story of Standardization
The Story of Standardization related to shipping container specification:

Shipping Container Manufacturer
Tips on how to find a shipping container manufacturer

Container Overseas Shipping: The Heart of Modern Day Commerce
Container Overseas Shipping developed after World War II, when America’s shipping industry was in a shambles.

Finding Shipping Container House Plans
If you’re into saving money in materials, and saving in construction time, then you should consider using shipping container house plans to create your perfect home.

Contact us - 'Shipping Container Housing Guide'
If you want to ask or tell us anything regarding 'Shipping Container Housing Guide', then click on this link.

Submit Your Site to Shipping Container Housing Guide
Submit Your Site to Shipping Container Housing Guide, the guide that provides information on building shipping container houses, advantages, projects and shipping containers themselves.

Suggestions for New Shipping Container Housing Topics
Are there things related to Shipping Container Housing you would like to know? Tell us exactly what and we’ll do our job and search for you.

Shipping Container Construction: Variation Within Standardization
. In the end form met function in every aspect of shipping container construction.

Shipping Container Design for Intermodal Shipping
The computer was important to shipping container design even in the 1950s at the beginning of the containerization revolution.

Shipping Container Drawing Examples Are Readily Available
One section of the site is devoted to a shipping container drawing collection.

Refrigerated Containers (Reefers)
Refrigerated containers are able to control temperatures, allowing every type of product (meat, fruits, vegetables, pharmaceuticals etc) to travel across the world.

Container cranes
Container cranes, also known as a ship-to-shore cranes (StS crane) or handling gantry crane, represents an assemblage of cranes used to load and unload intermodal containers from container vessels.

Open top containers
Open top containers were designed for easy loading and unloading of the cargo.

Intermodal containers
Intermodal containers are useful if one needs a container that can be reused for different multiple purposes (transporting freight, stacking various types of cargo).

Insulated Shipping Containers
While some insulated shipping containers can be used just once, others are reusable.