Thursday 10 October 2013

Shipping Containers Turned Into £75 A Week Studio Flats

Forest Young Man's Christian Association (or YMCA as the Village People would say) in Waltham Forest (north east London) have a project to turn shipping containers into "mYPads" - self contained studio flats complete with on suite bathroom and air condition, according to an article over at the Daily Mail (anyone allergic to the Daily Mail can find an article about the Daily Mail article at TNT Magazine).

They cost £20,000 to build and will be rented out by the YMCA at £75 a week, and it sounds like the YMCA are also are looking at selling them to individuals and organizations.

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Shipping containers could become cottage

From what I can tell, having a cottage as a summer home seems to be a thing in Canada. According to the CBC, Colleen Lashuk from Montreal wants to build a cottage out of used shipping containers in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There's a minor problem - there are local bylaws against turning shipping containers into dwellings. However, all hope is not lost as the council will be holding a meeting next week to possibly change to bylaw.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Coca-Cola turn shipping containers into water purifying community centers for the developing world

Coca-Cola have launched a project to turn shipping containers into "Ekocenters" - solar powered community centers with built in water purifiers.




It's meant to provide clean water, basic supplies, mobile charging and connectivity and Coca-Cola drinks to people living at what Coca-Cola calls "the Bottom of the Pyramid" (the nearly 4 billion people who live on less than US$2 per day).

There's more info on Coke's website and I was first alerted to this on The Verge.

(And in case you haven't noticed, ekoc is coke spelled backwards)