22-08-2003, 23:46
The Department of Resource and the various shipping companies of Sierra Pampa have started a new program to convert used cargo containers in to low cost housing for the poor and needy.
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These robust, non-toxic containers have out lived their usefulness, and rather that just recycle them for their material (steel, aluminum, etc), the Module Housing Project was started. The containers have many virtues: interlock allows for them to be constructed 10 high and our structurally sound with or without their walls and roofskins (allowing for endless modifications without loss of structural integrity).
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The Module Housing Project is planning to construct a showcase development of converted containers house and buildings. The cornerstone of this development will be a retooled factory that continues the projects conversions, while providing employment to those that had neither home nor jobs before.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/containercolony2.jpg
The cost of the containers is projected at $3000 per container and the conversion process to add another $1500 for simple single unit. With multiple units, multiple story and specialty structures to cost more, but still affordable and durable.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/container2.jpg
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/container1.jpg
These robust, non-toxic containers have out lived their usefulness, and rather that just recycle them for their material (steel, aluminum, etc), the Module Housing Project was started. The containers have many virtues: interlock allows for them to be constructed 10 high and our structurally sound with or without their walls and roofskins (allowing for endless modifications without loss of structural integrity).
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/containervillage.jpg
The Module Housing Project is planning to construct a showcase development of converted containers house and buildings. The cornerstone of this development will be a retooled factory that continues the projects conversions, while providing employment to those that had neither home nor jobs before.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/images/Gallery/containercolony2.jpg
The cost of the containers is projected at $3000 per container and the conversion process to add another $1500 for simple single unit. With multiple units, multiple story and specialty structures to cost more, but still affordable and durable.