Client:
The Power Of Green Housing Development, LLC
Project Description:
Innovative and environmentally friendly 4-level
multi-family building, using retired shipping
containers as the primary framing for the structure.
Unit Description:
Seventeen condominium units located over a resident
parking area. Studio, 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom units,
ranging from 960-to-1,920 square feet in size.
Green and Sustainable Design:
Wood is the primary material…contribution to our
atmosphere. Instead of wood, the project will use
retired shipping containers and, in the process, do
a good deed for the globe.
There are hundreds of thousands of used shipping
containers in stockyards across the country without
a use or purpose; and no one has a good idea of what
or how to dispose of them. Most have originated in
China, then used once to carry manufactured items
across the ocean—ending up as permanent residents in
this country because it’s cheaper to build a new
container, rather than shipping it back for re-use.
It is estimated that 21,000 of these containers
arrive in the United States in this fashion every
day.
The project will also use manufactured green
building materials and finished in the build-out of
the units.