This is one of the designs from a new  series which is intended to offer many tools for our readers. The concept is not only used for education in the "Container Transformation", but will soon be used to provide accurate life like designsand plans for shipping container design, modification and construction.

The concept is not just the photos you see, but they are part of a very simple and easy-to-use software program that is very inexpensive and does not require a professional. The 3D program has templates that the user simply modifies with a click including simple changes to the interior and exterior. ...decorating, remodeling, furnishing and even landscaping. It automatically generates the 360° view 3D photos, but also the 2D architectural plans.

For further information regarding our storage containers for rental or sales and other intriguing ideas of uses of storage containers, Contact AZ Containers at 877-292-6937 to see how the most basic steel box to a customized, climate controlled storage or workspace with windows, they’ll have your solution on it’s way to you fast.

We aim to provide our customers with a personal, fast and efficient service, which will offer a hassle free solution to any storage problem. More importantly, there are no hidden costs when purchasing  or leasing storage containers from us.

Be sure to see the progress of our container home under construction on the home page.

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By Robyn Lawrence

For green cred and innovation, this prototype kit house is hard to beat.

Made from repurposed shipping containers and pre-engineered recycled steel building components, based on Prius engineering, with a gray water system and a living roof, the Tim Palen Studio at Shadow Mountain is a pre-fab residence and workplace in one of the country’s harshest desert climates. Developed by ecotechdesign in conjunction with ecotechbuild, the hybrid house prototype is the first permitted shipping container house in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, California. The kit-like housing product is being offered to the public for the first time, and its designer claims it costs about half of what locally available prefab alternatives run. It can be erected at the site, often in less than an hour.

“By combining high-efficiency and mass-produced modular construction methods with innovative design in one of the harshest climate zones in North America, we have developed a low-cost, sustainable, housing system that can be transported and quickly erected anywhere in the world,” says architect Walter Scott Perry, principal of ecotechdesign. 

Some notable features:

-Hybrid House Design: Based on the efficient Prius automobile engineering concept, the hybrid house concept combines diverse pre-engineered building and energy conservation features to maximize efficiency and cost savings while offering design...

Portable buildings are ideal for temporary homes, offices, work sites or emergency housing and are manufactured from new, ISO standard steel containers, 8'x 20' and 8' x 40' in size, and carry a 10 year structural warranty. Converted by experienced cargo container manufacturers, our buildings can be transported via standard cargo container ships, cargo planes, helicopters, trucks or rail.

Steel Storage Containers do not require foundations or structural assembly, and they are ideal for emergency shelters, temporary housing, portable offices or studios, mining camps, construction housing or field offices, worker housing, portable emergency clinics, storm shelters, military or police posts, forest or mountain cabins, etc. Steel Storage Containers are ideal for many (uses) and we can even provide complete worker "man camps."

Rugged and durable, Steel Storage Containers are ideal for disaster recovery, emergency housing, and harsh conditions. They can withstand natural disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. Without anchoring, our units can resist winds up to 100 mph; and with anchoring, our steel portable buildings can resist winds up to 175 mph.

There are a wide range of models, options, and configurations available with our portable steel containers. We offer containers (with windows, entrance doors, AC 110v/220v electrical wiring, telephone...

By Cecily Burt / Oakland Tribune

It's been four weeks since dockworkers at the Port of Oakland shut down two marine terminals because the workers refused to handle potentially explosive refrigerated shipping containers that had been serviced overseas.

And though goods are now moving in and out of the port without delay this busy Black Friday week, it's only because of a new, labor-intensive effort going on behind the scenes -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

A handful of clerks from ILWU Local 34 and two mechanics have been working practically nonstop inside a second-floor room at the Pacific Marine Association training facility on Fallon Street to identify and isolate containers that had motors serviced during stops in Vietnam.

And they will continue poring over the lists until they can be sure the danger no longer exists.

"These reefers are still moving all over the world," said Richard Mead, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10.

The problem with refrigerated containers, more commonly called "reefers," came to light this fall when...