Garage Builders

Dad was a foreman of the old school, known for its quality of craftsmanship. When his team has built a house, is solid, square and built to last. Before I can follow in his footsteps, the credit crunch hit in 1960, closed the shop and we have agriculture, but I was always interested in developments in the construction industry.

Traditional structures are constructed with frames of wood or steel, and with materials as diverse as they were, Wooden structures isquality of their past. I still have friends in the building game and one is a fixer patch. These days one of his greatest frustrations of trying to hang plaster cornices that are not square, and bends in the woods. If the underlying structure is not flat and square, it can end well as it should. He is often late in its work, while the writers are back to square their work, to be called.

See also the time and materials used inconstruction of the frame, foundation and finish it, all of which increase the cost of its structure. Consider also the basis of many traditional structure of the stumps to stabilize the plane of the slab. Then there are the parasites of correction, modification and drop to add to the cost.

Use the containers for the transport of freight of 20 tons across oceans without distortion or corrosion. They are built to exact measurements, so that they can be stackedthe other, loaded on trucks, trains and ships, and just click into place so that will be in transit is not. They are designed so they can support their cargo of 20 tonnes, only the four corners of the container without any trouble, and I repeat, can be fired at the top of every other form of support. Proves once again be sealed and protected to prevent burglary and theft.

Course, are used for warehouses and offices on construction sites for some time because they caneasily moved without them, are designed to be lifted and moved by cranes and forklifts. In places such as Papua New Guinea is used as corner shops for the security that they offer as proof of thief, robber-proof structures. They are built to be safe.

Mining companies have seen the advantages of using containers as housing for their workers in the mines for a long time, because it can be mounted in a workshop, transported to a mine and quickly installedinhabited.

Recently there has been discussion that the use of containers such as housing can be a useful alternative container for the poor and homeless, but the criticism is that it will be found substandard housing ghetto took place, creating more problems than it solved .

I can imagine that the humble container revolution, the largest in the construction industry for some time represented. If other materials are less available and the issuesabove will continue and grow, the containers, the original, and reservoirs to survive in the world. E 'finished blocks, waiting for the discovery and use. This is an economic, stronger and more durable than traditional materials and methods that can be installed faster and more accurate our current style of housing.

When set on a solid foundation, are cyclone / hurricane proof, would have survived earthquakes and landslidesbetter and can be used both above and below ground.

There are obviously some limitations. The modules are primarily of 8 feet and widths of 10 or 40 feet in length. Lower size would detract from the strength of design. Have come to the height of the ceiling of housing standards. But open the pages of major residential areas, but the project must be in multiples of standard sizes of containers. And, of course, appear as containersunless, of course, with a little 'imagination, it is like you would any other form of accommodation. And there will be a construction authority for which is beyond their ability to see the benefits and approval.

Realistic limits is only our lack of imagination in the use of this beautiful building blocks for a safer, greener, cheaper shipping container homes. Accepted as authorities added a number of residential andaround the world, and any change requires some effort to achieve.

For those who can not take the view here is an opportunity waiting to be explored further.