Tag: Industrial Supply

Shipping container hotels

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This Hotel Is Made Entirely Of Shipping Containers
BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com

Sleeping Around is a traveling boutique lodging that’s so fancy, you won’t even know you’re sleeping in the detritus of the global economy.

When future gen­er­a­tions look back on the archi­tec­ture of the early 21st cen­tu­ry, will our time be…

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Boston natural gas leaks

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Boston has a few thousand gas leaks it shouldn’t worry about
pbgrist, grist.org

Just FYI, Bostonon­i­an­ites, there’s a nat­ur­al gas leak under your city. Not a big deal. It’s a lit­tle one. Lit­tle small lit­tle nat­ur­al gas leak.

And a tiny bit of addi­tion­al bad news — there are also over 3,300 other such leaks.

Fro…

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Tempohousing: container housing products

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English: ISO 20 feet shipping container conver...
English: ISO 20 feet shipping container converted in student housing room. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cool company. Based in Netherlands this place designs houses from shipping containers (something which is increasingly being done in a DIY manner). This means the house is ISO standards compliant, modular and practically bomb proof. Plus for the growing numbers of the world’s poor and resource limited populations, these are recyclable and low cost housing.

container housing products.

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