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7 cool examples of shipping container homes, stores and jails

A research programme that’s looking at how to recycle used shipping containers into emergency housing in disaster areas isn’t so outlandish. In fact, ISBU (for “Intermodal Steel Building Unit”) construction has taken off big-time in recent years, due in part to a global glut of used shipping containers

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Shipping containers could be turned into quake-proof housing

Surplus shipping containers could not only be turned into emergency housing for earthquake-stricken Haiti, but would also provide sturdy, aftershock-proof shelter, researchers in the US say. Clemson University researchers Pernille Christensen, Doug Hecker and Martha Skinner say the SEED Project was inspired by the housing crises that following devastating hurricanes