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Have you heard about shipping container homes? There are approximately 250 million shipping containers, at any one time, up to 10% of that figure are actually not being used, sitting idle at docks. What if those empty shipping containers could be converted into temporary housing for disaster victims, or even for people in transition?

Shipping containers can be rapidly deployed and can withhold just about any natural disaster Mother Nature can throw at them. The planned shipping container homes are 'green' and are made of 85% re-manufactured/recycled materials. They can be shipped in a variety of ways, including railroad, 18-wheelers, air cargo transports, ships and even airlifted by helicopter. Each 40' shipping container costs about 3K and another 15K to make liveable.

More and more is appearing regarding homes made of shipping containers. It is a great idea and while it has been around for a long time in many other countries, it is a relatively new thing here in Australia.

Shipping container homes are just that. Homes that look like homes, but the bones are shipping containers. There is currently a huge surplus of shipping containers in this country and this is a great opportunity to reuse them and save our natural resources.

Not just for resourceful squatters, shipping container conversions are taking the world by storm. Shipping container engineering bring efficiency, flexibility and affordability to innovative green buildings, from small vacation cabins to movable cafes, schools and skyscrapers.

So, what's involved in buying, designing and building shipping container homes that are more than just art projects? Shipping container homes are a perfect example of thinking outside the box while living inside one, but thinking is one thing and doing is another. Careful planning is required before building and moving in. There are several fun and practical reasons to live in a shipping container home. First of all, it's cheaper for a shipping container company to buy new shipping containers than to transport empty ones back to the origin, creating a stockpile of shipping containers in port areas that shipping container home builders in the right place at the right time can obtain for the right price.

Shipping containers are looking more and more viable for the small house and small living movement. Yearly, millions of shipping containers arrive in Australian ports, but only a portion of these containers ever leave our consumptive shores. For many companies, the cost of shipping empty containers back across seas for reuse exceeds that of purchasing new ones. Add to that our negative balance of trade, and empty shipping containers start piling up. Although the problem remains formidable, out of the box thinkers are coming up with great ways to make use of the hundreds of thousands of shipping containers that are literally stacking up around the world. As it turns out, with a little spiffing-up, used shipping containers are ideal building blocks for prefab homes, and their reuse can provide answers to environmental and social problems alike.

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This article was written by Port Container Services - specialising in shipping container conversions

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