Now this is thinking outside the box!

[Wildfire]

As the saying goes, home is where the heart is, and for a growing number of people in the U.S. and beyond its
borders, that special place is a stack of shipping containers.

With the demand for affordable housing on the rise across the country, some developers in cities like Detroit and
Seattle have been using a truly outside-the-box thinking to come up with a solution to the problem: building
condominiums out of discarded shipping containers.

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View all :- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...bster-shack-entirely-shipping-containers.html

 

[Char_Azn]

US of A got natural disaster issues. Those container can tahan natural disasters or not.

 

[jubilee1919]

We often use old cargo containers for offices here. A good way to recycle them.

 

[Alamaking]

How much per container?

 

[looneytan]

How much per container?

I bought 40 foot one about $1900, used one

 

[jubilee1919]

I bought 40 foot one about $1900, used one

Anyone in the market for old containers?

 

[looneytan]

Anyone in the market for old containers?

can source from those guys in shipping company

in fact can get cheaper if go direct to container yard , pandan loop etc.

 

[neddy]

I still prefer yesterday kampong than tomorrow's containers.

So, people are getting poorer.

 

[Never]

I'm beginning to get tired looking at it never mind living inside one.

 

[watchman8]

Nothing innovative. Sinkieland contractors have been using this concept for their foreign talents for ages, until govt clampdown.

 

[Extremist]

Imagine the heat inside these container, Sinkies will die of heat strokes

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Not doable here....
It's not the building cost that's expensive....it's the cost of the land the container house sits on.

 

[po2wq]

Imagine the heat inside these container, Sinkies will die of heat strokes

u can air cond it 1 la ...

 

[moolightaffairs]

I'm beginning to get tired looking at it never mind living inside one.

u staying at tanjong pagar?

 

[Extremist]

u can air cond it 1 la ...

Heat will move through metal a lot faster than through than cement/wood

 

[moolightaffairs]

Heat will move through metal a lot faster than through than cement/wood

i think gotta add insulation and planks before tuning it into office.

 

[jubilee1919]

Heat will move through metal a lot faster than through than cement/wood

Cover with insulation and it will not be so bad. As a mobile and temporary shelter it is ideal as a site office being easily transportable.

 

[OppaGANGNAMStyle]

When the air-con gets turned off, one will fry inside a container.