On 9/13/2017 5:25 AM, William Ahern wrote:


There's an outfit around here using them as the basis for tornado
shelters and folks use them all over as storage and occasionally
repurpose for small barns, etc., and yes, rarely for dwelling space but
they're simply not particularly well-suited for the purpose at hand.

For permanent homes, no, I don't think anyone is proposing that
they're a good idea.

Many architects seem enamored of them. Here's an interesting point (among
many) made by an architect pushing back against the fad:

An empty 40' shipping container weighs 8380 pounds. A galvanized steel
stud weighs a pound per linear foot. These two containers, melted down and
rolled and formed, could have been upcycled into 2,095 8' long steel
studs. Framing the walls instead of using shipping containers would have
used about 144 of them. Using shipping containers as structural elements
for a one storey building is downcycling and wasting of a resource.

According to this guy the container can be better used making 2095
studs. What is the total impact once those studs are made into walls
with drywall, nails, energy for recycling, etc.? Doubt he did the right
research before commenting