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Over the past few years, the hotel industry has upped their creativity game and started to use uncommon materials during hotel construction. Hotels across the world have been created from ice, salt, and even chocolate! However, the newest trend is converting shipping containers into hip, yet practical hotel rooms. Why Shipping Containers? There are a…

Gone are the days when shipping containers only had one purpose. There are many innovative ways that shipping containers can be used for commercial purposes, with only imagination limiting the possibilities. Businesses are quickly transforming containers into growing spaces, mobile offices, and more. Storefronts Shipping containers are rapidly showing up as kiosks and storefronts across…

You may have noticed an unusual rise in the number of shipping-container homes and spaces around the world. Studies have estimated that there are around 24 million shipping containers in the world that are unused. Thankfully, these sitting boxes have become popularly repurposed as an alternative building material for homes and other buildings.

Steel boxes are quietly changing how businesses grow. Right now, thousands of shipping containers sit unused while business owners search for affordable space, faster expansion, and smarter ways to operate. We see this every day. You might need room to sell, build, serve, or grow without signing a long lease or pouring money into construction.

Shipping container hospitals have been springing up all over the world in recent years. Called “Clinic in a Can,” they cost significantly less to set up and maintain than a traditional hospital or emergency clinic, and they can be flown to any location in the world.

Flipping shipping containers into homes is happening around the country at an incredible rate. In Louisville, KY’s Smoketown neighborhood, a man is busy constructing a shipping container home that he hopes will be the first of many. “They are air tight, water tight,” Richard Ronald of RJ Ronald Creative Design and Construction said. 

Have you been intrigued by the thought of living in a shipping container home? Maybe you are getting ready to be an empty nester and are looking for a way to downsize. Or perhaps you’re single and wanting to have your space without going into too much debt.

Businesses around the globe are using shipping containers to help them meet their needs while also taking advantage of all the benefits shipping containers offer. They are durable, flexible, cost-effective, as well as eco-friendly. Let’s see how you can use shipping containers to help your business grow. Shipping Container Storage Have you ever found the…

What Commercial real estate developer Related Midwest calls a “pop-up retail market” made of refurbished shipping containers is opening this month in Chicago, Illinois. Starting their venture on Randolph Street, Related Midwest plans a trial run of a concept that could expand to other areas of Chicago if successful.

It is well documented that shipping containers are durable, weather resistant, and transportable, giving them impressive versatility. However, did you know that shipping containers are being utilized by different groups to help the environment?

Container One can help make these portable secure shipping container garages a reality. Conex containers make great storage units when extra storage is needed for that excess inventory, and it saves you a lot of money.  Buying a container instead of renting them from other companies is the best method to save your company money.

With Urban rentals on the rise and low-income earner's wages remaining mostly sluggish, Wanona Satcher - an urban designer, landscape architect, and city planner - has been working for years to find a reasonable, realistic solution to the affordable housing challenge troubling cities across the country.