With millions of shipping containers lying empty at ports around the world, it may seem like repurposing them to construct buildings would be a clear environmental winner. The reality of building with ...

Steve Taylor spent a year and a half building a treehouse in Ladonia, Texas, using four shipping containers. The 50-foot structure has a cantilevered design, where one end is supported by steel ...

A company in Minnesota has created a home using shipping containers. The three-bedroom, 2-bath house is constructed of five shipping containers.

Closing thoughts Building your home from shipping containers is indeed a possibility. However, there’s a lot of work and sweat that’ll take place behind the scenes.

In the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles, a new affordable multifamily housing project using shipping containers resulted in 24 micro-units for formerly unhoused residents, according to Fast Company. ...

A Texas couple spent $60k building their dream home in a charming rural area near their big city hometown — using just two 40 ft. shipping containers. Lexi Newkirk, 24, and her husband, Diego ...

Developers are also using shipping containers to build new apartment complexes, student housing and hotels. In Williamsburg, a home made of stacked shipping containers sold for $5 million in 2021.

Construction crews are developing a multi-story building aimed to house people experiencing homelessness and they are using shipping containers to get it done.

This project would use steel shipping containers to hold clients’ belongings rather than erecting a building to house the storage units.

A company in Minnesota has created a home using shipping containers. The three-bedroom, 2-bath house is constructed of five shipping containers.