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Entrepreneur Creates Low Cost Housing Alternative
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An entrepreneur from New Mexico has a creative idea for low-cost housing.Albuquerque home builder, Brian McCarthy, and three partners, have built a prototype house out of a standard 320-square-foot shipping container. Each small home would contain a kitchen, a bathroom with a toilet, and a sleeping area.
The partners plan to convert about 3,000 containers into homes, next year, and sell them for about $8,000 apiece.
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moladi on September 29th, 2008 8:56 am
I do not see the shipping container as a solution.
1. No thermal qualities
2.Cold in winter
3.Hot in summer
4.Transmits sounds
5.Continious increase in steel price
6.Rust
7.High maintanance cost
8. Narrow only 2,300 meters- confined living space
9.Ceiling height to low – 2.400
10.Cost to retrofit
11.Cost to transport
12.Cost to position
A solution http://www.moladi.com
Dane on September 29th, 2008 9:23 am
Moladi: Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out.
jaeda on September 30th, 2008 1:23 am
that’s very true moladi, it’s just good to have but pretty sure it does cause headache some time when it will start to rust.
kuumat on October 31st, 2008 9:05 am
Containers can be used in cold too if build properly. Of course you shouldn’t use shipping containers as they are.
One example: http://www.morehouse.fi/eng/cfmldocs/
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