Abstract

A container home offers a fast, green, and sustainable approach to building because of its standardized and reliable factory-controlled manufacturing. In this regards, this report investigates the data available in the literature and the strength assessment of ISO shipping container and then goes into the application evaluation of ISO container for temporary and permanent housing options. Real project as a case study has been investigated and all the detailing sheets have been performed. Finally, the conclusion chapter highlights the overall opinion of the author, some suggestions for the ISO container designers and the design challenges which any designer could be faced with.

Highlights

  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO) container house is not so common here in Canada but it is going to develop further as it provides the customers with relatively affordable design and quick set up procedure

  • The cutout process and retrofitting could be executed in the shop prior to transformation into the site to minimize the possible mistakes considerably

  • Architects do not like to be restricted to predominated sizes as we have in ISO container building because it makes it more difficult to add their own architectural signature into the building

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Summary

Introduction

Countries’ trade globally uses shipping containers for a worldwide transportation network which produces lots of empty containers at the destination ports. There are tons of empty containers out there waiting to be reused or recycled. Due to recent development of technological innovation, reuse of shipping containers for home building usage might deserve further investigation between its other usages. Promising cases of transforming containers to youth center, classroom, emergency shelter, office, house and hotel are emerging around the world each year. This would be a kind of offset in a way, which could result in greener and healthier coastlines without creating another issue in landfill. The matter is how to transform those containers sustainably for homebuilding purposes in a way that makes our society greener and healthier

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