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I've looked at most of these postings on "how to change a steel box into a house" and frankly... why ? They aren't *that* cheap to leave lying around the world and a fair amount of work goes into mining the ores and making the steel.
So, proposal for a portable steel-(re)mill: a couple of... oh,
alright *shipping container* railcars, filled with the necessary equipment to clean, strip and rework cargo containers into more useful stuff.
The cars travel by train and are dropped off at sidings where shipping containers congregate and remill them into generically useful items like rebar, trusses, bridging components, etc. Heck, remake them into houses if you want; you could probably get a couple good-sized houses out of the 32,000 pounds of steel that goes into each shipping container.
they already make houses and offices with them
http://weburbanist....-homes-and-offices/
[xandram, Oct 14 2008]
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Being, what seems to be, the "world's repository of lost containers", we have a plethora of container uses. From mushroom farms, to internet and cell-phone kiosks, to site-offices. Low cost housing hasn't been one of them because they have value! |
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I haven't gone overboard on the other ideas, because they are not pallet-able. |
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Just seems a terrible waste of effort to use a box built to be stacked 10-15 high on a rolling ship for a one-storey anything. I suppose that's part of the "charm": 16 tons of steel isn't getting stolen or broken into, but still... salvage rights should apply after a couple years. |
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Mushroom farms are about five containers high, two deep, per isle. Site offices can be three storeys high. Internet and cell-phone kiosks are one storey but are mobile (can connect to regular articulated vehicle). |
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