Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Over in Brazil, a local architecture studio, Plano Livre, ...

An affordable housing project for veterans in Merced was built by Custom Containers 915. Another for Turlock was discussed April 11, 2023. City of Merced Some of Turlock’s homeless residents would ...

Lathrop, California / / September 8, 2025 / Conexwest More than just a steel cube that’s designed to go from A to B and back again, there are various applications of customized refrigerated shipping ...

When the cost of a single-family home hewn from wood and traditional construction materials is out of reach for many low-income Phoenix residents, and hell, some middle-income earners too — the ...

There’s something about shipping container buildings that gets people excited. Perhaps it’s seeing something so mundane and functional become beautiful and personal? Or witnessing Tetris-like blocks ...

Shipping containers may seem like a cheap path to a durable modern home, but costs add up when turning a bare metal box into a functional furnished house.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — After 10 years of ...

A local developer plans to build an eight-unit townhouse project using 32 shipping containers on vacant property on the near-north side of Indianapolis. Custom Container Builders plans to spend about ...

Clark and Stephanie Evans built their custom home, made from upcycled shipping containers, over the course of three years. The couple and their two sons will move into the three-bedroom house before ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

Every studio has a story, Andy Berg likes to say about the spaces he builds out of old shipping containers. On a recent blustery spring day, Berg was on the hunt for a new story. With wife Sarah ...