The reasons for building shipping container homes are diverse and include the fact that these containers are globally available, affordable, sturdy, water-tight and versatile, not to mention that they ...

Engineers build a massive mobile thermal sanitation unit using off-the-shelf parts. Improvising fast solutions with ingenuity and at scale is becoming de rigueur as engineers step up efforts to help ...

CLEMSON, S.C. — Resources to solve the housing crisis in Haiti may already be on hand. Some Clemson University researchers have been experimenting with ways to convert shipping containers into ...

Shipping containers aren’t just for transport - they can become tough, reliable storage with a little DIY work. In this video, I show how I renovated an old container step by step to make it useful ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — An effort is underway ...