On August 4th, help came to the people of Pader, Uganda, in the form of a steel shipping container. High school students, 150 total, from Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School in New Jersey, worked the entire academic year to transform a recycled high cube box into a medical clinic. New Jersey has a large port where …
A specialized military group has been deployed in Afghanistan with an unusual mission: to locate lost and forgotten standard steel shipping units. This group, the Mobile Container Assessment Team, or MCAT, is composed of dozens of United States soldiers spread throughout Afghanistan.
Storage Container Homes in American and England continue to be built with a bias towards sustainability, spatial efficiency, and contemporary aesthetic architecture. Colorado Home Setting the Bar A wooden paneled refurbished container home is perched off the grid in Nederlands, Colorado.
Field trips are special treats for children of elementary school age, but they aren’t always possible due to lack of school funding or supervision. When children do get a chance to go on a field trip, the experience is often one that leaves a big impression on them.
Imagine if the thousands of tons of food scraps from restaurants, hotels, businesses, and schools could be transformed from waste into energy. This idea is finally becoming more realistic with new technology by the Southampton based company SEaB Energy. The new machine is called a MuckBuster. The MuckBuster looks like an average storage container from …
Young designers, engineers, and nonprofit organizations are cooperating to build an orphanage out of recycled portable storage containers. Many Haitian orphans will get to live in the new dwelling, designed by RPI’s chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World.
Tighter Fuel Standards for Container Vessels will Help Clear Air in Beijing. Container Ships that enter the North Sea and Baltic ports follow regulations to use fuel with less than 1 percent sulfur in order to reduce emissions. The Emission Control Areas will tighten regulations further to allow 0.1 percent sulfur fuel by 2015, and …
Daiken-Met Architects just designed and built a movable office building made from steel storage containers. The company is now using their building, named Sugoroku Office, for their own office headquarters. Daiken-Met Architects found it hard to secure a plot of land permanently in the urban areas of Japan. They purchased the small plot of land …
There is something about the container home that sparks creativity in architects, homeowners and developers alike. It could be the inherent ingenuity of using recycled material of old storage containers that challenges developers to tap into their creative side. Or it could be the limited amount of space that presents a new way of looking …
Dundee is an area of expanding digital companies in the United Kingdom. The digital sector is continuing to grow in both the number of companies and the size of companies in Seabraes, Dundee. Plans have been made Plans for a new office building are underway to accommodate the growing business in the city. Project leaders …