How Corpus Christi approaches a proposal to use shipping containers for affordable housing may set a precedent citywide. The concept proposed by developer Bryan Johnson would employ steel shipping ...

Even if you’re not a neat freak, digging through a bunch of half-eaten chip bags in search of the snack you’re looking for can be a frustrating experience. If this sounds like your life every time you ...

While living in a box isn’t typically desirable, a Tempe company sees a future in the concept. Using recycled, retrofitted shipping containers, Upcycle Living, a Tempe architectural firm, has ...

SG Blocks CEO & Chairman Paul Galvin talks about how using shipping containers as a primary building material can accelerate much-needed affordable housing construction. Constantly rising construction ...

As developers in Orange County and Los Angeles convert shipping containers into livable housing, a USC professor discusses their viability. Cargo containers are no longer just for cargo. They're part ...

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Shipping containers are being transformed to provide housing. Can they be affordable? We are used to seeing shipping containers as a mode of transporting goods by land or sea. We see them on the backs ...

Inside a chilly warehouse on Salt Lake City’s west side, work is underway on what might be called the bleeding edge of less-conventional affordable housing. Owner Rod Newman and his company Eco Box ...