We’ve featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK’s container home kit, student housing, and even an entire container city in London. One ...

From Remote Mining Camps to Global Disaster Relief Shelters, the China-Based Prefab Container House Manufacturer Takes Its Rapid-Deployment Housing Global FOSHAN, China, Dec. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

SG Blocks Inc., a Brooklyn-based designer and fabricator innovator of container-based structures, has entered into a strategic partnership with financial services and housing market executives David ...

It wouldn’t be a stretch to call LOT-EK one of the original pioneers of shipping-container prefab. Their Modular Dwelling Unit, a simple yet brilliant design, has now been on the scene since 2002, and ...

Are shipping container homes actually good for the environment? The reality is more complex than it appears on the surface.

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MB Architecture was commissioned to design a vacation home for a family of five on a limited budget. The firm used six shipping containers to create a four bedroom house that it says was significantly ...

Rammed earth, sod, yak wool, reclaimed wood, oriented-strand board, straw ... nowadays, the smorgasbord of offerings in alternative building methods and materials is staggeringly abundant, if not a ...