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Panel Built Introduces New Line of Converted Shipping Containers
The world of modular building is characterized by constructing quality buildings as swiftly as possible. Now, Panel Built, Inc. is looking to push these modular benefits even further with their new line of converted shipping containers. Shipping containers offer an...
100 SHIPPING CONTAINERS IN INDIA TO BECOME MINI TEMPEH FACTORIES
Tempeh Today aims to produce 10,000 metric tons of tempeh each year to help reduce India’s protein deficit. Dutch vegan meat company Schouten Europe recently launched Tempeh Today in Bangalore, India. The company produces tempeh locally in small, high-tech shipping...
Shipping containers could become low-cost apartments in St. Pete
A St. Petersburg start-up plans to turn shipping containers into workforce and affordable housing. Path Communities wants to build 31 small apartments, 320 square feet each, using 40-foot shipping containers made from recyclable materials. The development would be...
Corktown Project Turns Shipping Containers Into Three Lofts And Shops
An imaginative form of 21st century recycling will convert 11 steel shipping containers into high-ceiling rental spaces on Michigan Avenue in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood. It's a way to reuse 40 foot-tall cargo cubes, priced to move amid a global glut and one-way...
Shipping containers meet fashion with Louis Vuitton
With the pandemic bringing most normal promotional activities to a standstill Louis Vuitton hit upon the idea of a roving exhibition of bright red LV branded containers to promote Men’s Spring Summer 2021 collection. The distinctive containers, which are on “world...
New Jersey Man Transforms Unused Shipping Containers Into COVID Testing Sites
The response to COVID-19 has required some creativity, and a local man is making use of unused shipping containers. CBS2’s Meg Baker got a look inside a 20-foot by 8-foot shipping container repurposed as a testing facility. It is located in the commuter parking lot at...
Restaurants and Shops in Converted Shipping Containers in Coral Springs? Redevelopment Officials Considering The Idea
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - In up-and-coming neighborhoods in Orlando, Tampa, Paris, London, and other big cities, shipping containers converted into spaces for trendy restaurants and shops are popular with tourists and local hipsters. So why not create similar places in...
Police investigate shipping container fire in Great George Street
An investigation is under way after shipping containers and a heap of tyres were set alight in Great George Street, Preston yesterday (Sunday, December 6). Nearby shipping containers used for storage had also caught fire, leading the fire service to suspect foul-play....
Shipping containers go adrift in Pentland Firth
Shipping containers have gone adrift in the Pentland Firth after being lost from a container ship on Saturday as gales swept the north of Scotland. The incident involved 10 empty 40ft containers and two of them have been reported ashore in south Hoy, Orkney. HM...
Six-bedroom house made from shipping containers hides stunning interiors within
A house made from shipping containers has rightly wowed people with its stunning six bedrooms and snazzy living area, all inside 6,221 square metres. Based in the Waikato region in New Zealand, the property was created using 12 shipping containers, transforming them...
Shipping Containers Can Be a Quick Storage and Office Space for Your Construction Site!
As we know, construction sites are of course temporary and shipping containers are the very best use for when a workplace requires something portable with plenty of storage space. Security and durability are required also on sites and this is exactly what a shipping...
Canada Operating Containers
Canada has come up with an excellent idea that may just help out with the current Coronavirus pandemic happening. A company named TORONTO has decided to try and help limit the coronavirus’s strain on the healthcare system by using old shipping containers as operating...
Second shipping container village planned for Northumberland
An application for another shipping container village has been submitted - in plans that shipping containers provide retail and leisure facilities. The plans are for the shipping containers to open on the site of a recently closed food business, Laider’s yard on...
The Top Surprising Benefits Of Shipping Containers
It is no surprise that exports and imports remain a big contributor to the revenue percentage of most of the world’s economies. Most think of shipping containers as just importing and exporting many goods this is certainly not the case as you will find. Below we have...
Plans for shipping container village for south shields town centre
There are plans to construct an entertainment and business hub in South Shields - creating 35 jobs, the plans have now been given the go ahead from council bosses. The project will redevelop the outdoor drinking terrace of the Clover and Wolf, off Brigham Place. The...
Shipping Container office Block Plan For Cardiff
Womanby street located in Cardiff is set for a four storey shipping container office block on the site of the street’s car park - well known for its hub of live music and entertainment in the city centre. The plans highlight that the box office development will be...
A Covid-19 Laboratory for Jersey in a shipping container
In the UK small mobile testing facilities could become a useful tool in the pandemic response and are currently being trialled. The island of Jersey has sparked an excellent idea in building a laboratory inside of a shipping container. The container can process 2000...
Southampton Car Park Shipping Container Scheme
There are plans to transform a Southampton car park into a development of converted shipping containers for retailers, food outlets, bars and offices which is set to be approved. The application is seeking a five-year temporary permission for the project on College...