Container Home Building

... the hardest part about helping a family BUILD their own HOME... is teaching them how to PLAN their own HOME BUILD.
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Hi Campers, As we try to regroup after some recent Tropical  Storm Lee cleanup/mitigation/work… Here’s what’s in store for you in the next exciting episodes of “I want an ISBU and I want it NOW!” While we begin building our own ISBU prototype… Our Corganix Hybrid ISBU-Earthbag Home (developed in cooperation with Dr. Owen Geiger,  Director of the...
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By really thinking thru HOW you interact with each other, you can not only plan and build sustainable communities, you can actually enhance your everyday “face to face” lives. Efficient, affordable, sustainable improvements will lead to the achievement and fulfillment of a higher standard to measure your existing “quality of life” against.
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I have three projects all running full-tilt right now. That means that I’m stretched from San Antonio to Tampa Bay. So, as I work at a fever pitch, I’m going to reach into my mail bag and pull out a lucky winner. Because knowing how things work means that… um… you know how things work!...
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Container Home Building… (OH yeah!) If you “drank the koolaid” or have at least TASTED it, you know we’re all about empowering the “little guy” to build an awesome Shipping Container Home with no debt, or as little as possible. Well sports fans, we’re aiming to start something of a peaceful DIY Home Building REVOLUTION!...
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As I work and toil away in the “Secret Fortress of Steel”… on my new book, entitled: “Container Home Building” (I mean, what else would I call it? ) Here’s what we  are we working on today: I’m talking to a couple of artists, that want to build a “Corten Cabin” in a rural area, to live...
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In this exciting chapter of: “What the heck are those CHC guys working on, now?” Recently… … I was contacted by a  guy in the Florida Panhandle, (down Perry way…) who lives in one of those cottages that sit way up in the air on pilings. And, he’s getting married… So there goes his “bachelor pad.” I don’t usually talk...
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I’ve shown you how you can build 4 small homes into one 48′ Shipping Container… I’ve demonstrated how they can be assembled to form a small home for a family: But, what if I showed you how to assemble (3) 48′ High Cube ISBUs to form a home big enough for a pair of adults, and...
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I was recently approached (yet again) to tender a view on how Emergency Shipping Container Housing (Medium to Long Term) could be provided to places that already had shipping ports in their immediate vicinity. Remember that there are many situations beyond the: “Oh My Gawd, Martha… RUN! A Twister is coming!” Our forefathers moved out into the...
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