[Greenbuilding] Container Prefab buildings

[Stephen Collette]

Hello,

There has been lots of ideas kicking around using shipping containers  
for buildings. Try www.treehugger.com It's a great blog and search  
container prefab, and you will come up with a huge list of  
interesting projects. My favourite is a 6 storey office for a  
container company in Europe. There is a huge glut of these things on  
the seaboards of North America. If you live close, they can work for  
you, however shipping  them inland can be costly.

Stephen

Stephen Collette B.B.E.C
Principal

Your Healthy House
Indoor Environmental Inspections & Building Consulting
www.yourhealthyhouse.ca
stephen at yourhealthyhouse.ca
705.652.5159



>
> My wife and I plan to build a green home in the near future.
> We're now thinking of ways to cut costs on some things so we can
> afford the things we really want.  We originally planned on a
> detached garage, but it became apparent that we really don't
> need one.  I don't think I'd want one now, even if money was no
> object.  We don't keep a car in our garage now, as it is; we use
> it as a workshop and for storage.  I would still like to have
> that capability at our new house.  One option is to buy a new or
> used (greener) shed.
>
> But that got me thinking that there might be other interesting
> green oportunities.  One thing that caught my eye is used
> shipping containers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization).
> Looks like a great opportunity to reuse.  Wonder if you could
> put on a living roof?  And being of the engineering persuasion,
> I can see having fun modding the heck out of it.  Does anyone
> have experience with this sort of thing?
>
> I'd love to hear about any other cool green workshop/storage
> solutions, too.
>
> Thanks,
>     - Ian.
>