Container houses are in many ways ideal building materials
widely used in China. The relatively cheap China container house is a good
foundation for a well-built, mobile, and post-apocalyptic house. They have been
designed to carry heavy loads besides being stacked in high columns. In
addition, they are designed to resist harsh environments, like on homes close
to the ocean or sprayed with road-salt while transported on roads. Because of
their high strength, China container house may be adapted for secure storage.
Much cheaper as compared to conventional construction methods of timber framed
buildings, as well as brick and mortar properties, containers are rather
modular, flexible with regards to design (and can be made to appear absolutely
beautiful!), eco-friendly, durable, and just-an all-round winner whenever it
comes to constructing your own home.
These container houses are designed to be supported by means
of their 4 corners making it possible to have a very simple foundation. Also,
the top 4 corners are quite strong as they're intended to support a stack of
other China containers. All containers are generally the same width and most
have 2 standard height and length measurements. As such, they offer modular
elements which can be combined into bigger structures. This simplifies the
entire design, planning and transport of pre-fabricated materials. As they are
already conformed to standard shipping sizes, pre-fabricated modules can be
easily transported by rail, ship, or truck. The China container house is
already designed to interlock for ease of-mobility during transportation, and
so structural construction is completed through simply emplacing them. Because
of the modular design of the container, additional construction is as simple as
stacking more containers. They could be stacked up to 12 storey high when
empty.
Containers are in many ways ideal building materials as they
are strong, stackable, cuttable, movable, modular, durable, plentiful and
relatively cheap. The abundance and relative affordability of these China
container houses during the last decade comes from the shortfall in manufactured
goods that come from North America in the past two decades. The manufactured
goods come from Asia to North America and, to a lesser extent, Europe, inside
containers that oftentimes have to be shipped back empty, or
"dead-head", at considerable expense. It's often very cheap to buy
new containers in China than to ship old ones back. New applications are
therefore sought for the used containers that have arrived at their North
American destination.
There are a number of benefits to staying in homes built from
shipping containers, and an increasing number of individuals are starting to
realize that and taking action. If you're already lucky enough to-have
constructed your own and are already living in one, you will know these
benefits first-hand and will yourself have experienced them. Made of pre-fab
steel and welded together, the containers are made to be strong and rigid, and
very hard wearing. This makes them highly practical in places of high
geological activities, such as hurricane hotspots and earthquake zones.
Consider the mere fact that China container houses have been built to withstand
the most callous weather conditions, travel hundreds of thousands-of miles
aboard open top trans-oceanic shipping container ships. They are built to-have
a minimum working lifespan of 20-years before being de-commissioned. After
that, the containers, placed inside a fixed-position and maintained, have
a-virtually infinite lifespan.
In the last 2 decades, architects have been incorporating
containers houses into everything from houses to schools for aesthetic
purposes, but for out of economic necessity as well Architects and laypeople
alike have used them to build several types of buildings like homes, offices,
apartments, dormitories, artists' studios, schools, and emergency shelters;
they've also been used as swimming pools. A China container house is also used
to offer temporary secure spaces on construction sites as well as in other
venues on an "as-is" basis in place of building shelters. The low
cost re-locatable or disposable house is being provided to a depressed
residential market. Container houses sell for around $95,000 to $125,000 for
3-bedrooms, with fully-built houses costing less than $100,000, and can arrive
on the shores in 6 containers, nearly completely built from a factory in China.
All window and door joinery can be double glazed and the
houses clad in uPVC. The china container house are made up of modules will get
assembled in a factory and then shipped out to on-site in order to be joined.
The cladding and mono-pitch roof structure can be retrofitted and is a
secondary weather tightness barrier: double the guarantee against water ingress
at only half the price. You may need extra money to buy paint and wallpaper,
appliances, air conditioning, bathroom fittings, home theatre, security
systems, lighting and interior design.
Steel conducts heat very well; and so containers used for
human occupancy in environments with extreme temperature variations normally
have to be better insulated compared to most wood, brick, or block structures.
Describing the areas as "re-purposed containers", a single fan heater
can warm the steel homes which were previously ideal for remote beach spots or
camp grounds where access was a problem. With this in place, the home is extremely
well-insulated, warm and dry. You may need certification and appraisal of your
Chinese-made places, made of shipping-container structural steel. Testing and
certification is done in accordance to what is needed by the Building Code and
local councils. The China container house units are earthquake proof to a
magnitude 8, and structurally superior, surpassing the insulation requirements
of H1. At the same time, the houses can be designed cyclone and hurricane-safe,
been tested up to 290km/h winds.
China container-shipped built up houses could revolutionize
the building sector since the trend is growing at a gradual rate, with
thousands of Chinese-built container style houses having been sold. This has
potentially changed the landscape for entry level buyers in a move which could
redress the affordability crisis of national housing. Inside its containers,
the house can be trucked to sites where a concrete floor-pad has already been
laid. Some customers may have a loathing to the container approach. A number of
businesses are also promoting Chinese-made container houses with frames derived
from the same structural steel employed to make shipping containers, and with
rooms divided into modules.
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