Shipping Containers Housing Benefits

Let's see what are the shipping containers housing benefits. Shipping containers can be used to build houses, garages, shelters, offices and almost any type of building you can think of. Why would you wanna use them for such things instead of traditional construction materials?

• they are ready available. There are millions of empty shipping containers cluttering world's seaports. Only in New York there are about a million empty containers that overflow the seaport and jam storage yards.
• such containers are cheap. The average container life is 2-3 years, then they are liquidated to make room for newer leased models. Because of this you can find them at real cheap prices. More on this in our costs section
• they are build to resist in the not so friendly environment of the world's oceans: tough corrugated steel and tubular steel frames, one and a half inch thick marine grade plywood floors, vandal-proof locking steel doors, water-resistant welded seams, and all weather paint. Their rigid steel structure makes it easy to stack up to more building levels high. They can be insulated and provided with windows and sanitary and electrical installations.

These characteristics make the shipping containers great candidates for land based buildings. From the same reasons they can be used for larger projects such us a low cost solution for entire communities: students that can't afford high rents, peoples with low income, homeless people.

Such shipping containers housing projects are already on the move. Searching the net, we found references to some of them. Here they are:

• an article talking about Keetwonen a property developer based in Amsterdam that specialises in converting containers into temporary student homes;
• an article about a project initiated by Fox & Fowle Architects PC for converting the ubiquitous metal boxes into low-cost housing and working space;
• an article about shipping containers housing as a possible solution to Britain's housing crisis.

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