Homes are springing up around the world featuring the latest trend in green building: Transforming a shipping container into a home. As a home building material, these containers actually have a lot ...

Every year, tens of millions of shipping containers move via water, rail and road, carrying cargo around the planet. The ubiquitous and nondescript steel boxes are always on the move, but plans are in ...

A Missoula company that turns metal shipping containers into ready-to-move-in homes has begun a limited run of its first model at a production facility at the old Bonner mill site. Montainer, a ...

Shipping containers have become trendy statement homes, sustainable solutions to a need for housing, and durable replacements for traditional homes at risk from climate change. Myriad variables go ...

Container homes are here to stay: they're practical, modular, affordable, and downright stylish. With the right techniques and materials, a container home can provide a truly luxurious living ...

San DiegoSan Diego — The region’s first housing project made from shipping containers could open as soon as April, providing homes for 21 formerly homeless veterans and possibly paving the way for ...

Do you have an inordinate amount of shipping containers? Are you trying to figure out what to do with all them? In the unlikely event that the answer to this question is “yes,” you’ll be pleased to ...

The Austin yard of Bob's Containers echoes with the typical sounds of home construction: drilling, hammering, sawing and more. "Except our medium is a metal box," says co-owner Robert Balderas.