…Containers for Construction Steel shipping containers can be used for affordable individual housing units or as building blocks for larger homes or structures…
…out of rusty steel boxes. Shipping Containers as Building Blocks Containers make structural…
…Housing This model shows how shipping containers are converted for use as building blocks in a modernist design…

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…material, another Florida building is being constructed using discarded shipping containers. In this case, it…
…builders, the use of shipping containers is shaving hundreds of…
…1.8 million dollar building. As we showed in our…
…ago, buildings made of shipping containers are perfect for withstanding…

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…ready housing out of abandoned steel shipping containers. David Cross of TAW explains how the 700,000 abandoned shipping containers in U.S. ports represent a stockpile of potential intermodal steel building units (ISBU s) ready to be converted…

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…Fitting Off-Site When building with ISBUs, the building blocks are ready-made…
…the steel surface of the shipping containers. "It really worked…
…completely finished." Building Strong, Smart, and Fast…
…hallmarks of ISBU building. Homebuilding crews save time, money…

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…continues to develop," explains Head. Building a Better Window Electrochromic windows…
…amount of light and heat that enters the building. "People want skylights, they want…
…project that examines energy efficient building techniques, materials, and methods…

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…decided the time was right to look into building systems that promote increased energy…
…home's basic structure. Instead of building with a traditional "2-by" wood frame…
…expanded polystyrene and stacked like building blocks to form the exterior walls of…

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…affordable homes using abandoned steel shipping containers converted into intermodal steel building units (ISBU's) for safe, quick…
…Petersburg area. Applying Innovative Building Solutions It takes innovative…
…technologies to use converted steel shipping containers as the framework for storm-ready…
…affordable homes. It is not standard building practice, so the project faced…

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…Association of Home Builders green building standard that site-built…
…LivingHomes include sustainable building materials, technologies and…
…ladders things many green building programs ignore, says Roberts…
…all specifications are met. Building homes that are both sustainable…

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…Programs like the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership…
…release its National Green Building Standard that will establish…
…on the NAHB Web site. Building Green When a consumer wants…
…builders are designing and building homes to meet certain green home…

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