Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

the containers themselves are easily converted, and indeed many are already used as temporary office space and the like

everyone complains about lack of starter homes, so why all the non-existent obstacles when this is a relatively easy option that is certainly worth serious study

Bring back the prefab.
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exactly so .... these are today's equivalent

I have used containers a lot as temporary quarters, offices, canteens etc on project sites. All right for migrant camps but they are not a long term solution for housing. Personally, I would prefer a frame built house as is the norm in much of the US and Scandinavia. The designs possibilities are endless and they should be cheap, if it were not for rip-off Britain.

Too many in UK chasing the same pound coin. Population needs reducing. Quality of life is being eroded in all areas.

Just my thoughts as I see London grind to halt.

OMG! OMG! I do watch some crap!

Anyhow, if you like leggy Brazilian models and gorillas called "Walter", here's the latest:

Container accommodation works very well

http://www.containercity.com

It is used as offices and there are people living there permanently.

I won't try to persuade people who have never been in a container, let alone tried to modify one for permanent accommodation. Others have already written on the subject.

http://markasaurus.com/2015/09/01/whats-wrong-with-shipping-container-housing-everything/

trust me - it works very well!

there are several companies that convert containers to offices and accommodation to a high standard, but it's certainly not something your average joe should try
these are used all over the world including inhospitable places like m/e oilfields

everyone forgets that the original prefabs were only meant to last about 10 years, but a few are still around even now ...... in comparison, a steel container has a life of at least 10 years and, if memory serves me right, there are many still travelling the oceans at 20+ years

I'm with iturama on this, people without the faintest idea of the problems are the only ones who will go for tin sheds as accommodation.

This is a not so novel idea, and it might even work, as long as you ignore the infrastructure requirements: But at the end of the day, they are only well insulated boxes.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3812816/Big-World-Home-s-flat-pack-house-IKEA-steroids-answer-Australian-housing-crisis.html

so is a house!

all the infrastructure problems are a virtual irrelevance for they apply whatever the houses are made from

Q - do we need a lot more affordable housing?
A - assuredly so

Q - do you have any experience of offices and more made from containers?
A - you to answer

Q - as above but specifically to cynic?
A - yes

c, I think you have bin at the lolly water.

Clue: Don't confuse portacabin type accommodation with steel container boxes.


As for built in the factory "houses"..yes, I would live in one, especially if it was to the standard of the type I stayed in in Florida.

You're getting excited again C. As a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of my Institute for more years than I care to remember, I am with Maxk on this. And yes, as I mentioned earlier I have used and lived in containers on project sites. Containers have their applications but there are more practical solutions as far as homes are concerned. IMO.

sorry old bean, but i very much know the difference between portacabins and accommodation of all kinds built from dry freight containers .... and have experience of both

ok IT, so now expound and expand on your "more practical solutions" that are both quick and cheap to construct

Post WW11 type prefabs using modern materials.

Can be factory fabricated, good insulation/ventilation build in, electrics and plumbing can be pre- installed too...all ready to be bolted together onto a prepared pad.



Now for the awkward bit: where do you put them?

Wales

just a small correction - containers are welded not bolted together and (of course) are fitted out to be easily lifted with a forklift

i don't thing the space is so much of a problem insofar as there are (surely) plenty of suitable brownfield sites, and even if only relatively temporary, the building companies and others have large land banks, much with at least outline planning permission

Well you couldn't put them in Liverpool Chris they'd all be stolen before anyone moved in.

But they would blend in nicely with all the cars with no wheels :-)