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.

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.