Container Design & Construction
We – you and I — can turn old rusted shipping containers that have outlived their useful lives at sea into custom designed ultra-green homes.
You provide the initial vision, and I do the rest. (What results looks nothing like a shipping container. I thought you would want to know that.)
Shipping containers are some of the strongest building blocks man has ever constructed. They are designed to withstand horrible weather conditions and incredible stresses at sea. After their useful lives are through, however, they tend to become environmental eyesores, literally piling up in shipping yards.
We take these old hulks and turn them into something useful that does not harm the environment or waste the resources it took to make them. All it takes is a little imagination and a little vision.
I designed my first container home in Silver Spring, MD. The 3,436-square-foot home is an LEED-certified green, passive home made from used shipping containers and designed to have the smallest impact on the environment from construction through occupancy. When built, it will be the only passive and platinum LEED home and one of only 15 passive homes in the U.S.
LEED-certified homes are designed and constructed to the strict specifications of the LEED for Homes green building certification program. Our modular homes meet the guidelines of passive homes as well. A passive house is a well-insulated, virtually air-tight building that is primarily heated by passive solar gain. Energy loses are minimized, resulting in savings of up to 90% of energy consumption.
