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The new X-WING facility is a new approach to helping homeless residents get off the street and into somewhere safe and cool.
Inside a shipping container currently en route to a school in Puerto Rico, a solar microgrid is ready for deployment: As soon as the container arrives, the system, from a startup called BoxPower ...
On the inside of the dorms at Roanoke College, bright interiors open to suite-style rooms, where students have standard bunk ...
From tiny houses to student housing, we continue to be impressed at what architects can make from the humble shipping container. Colo Crossings, from Australian studio Benn + Penna, is definitely ...
To operate its fleet of 9 UBCO 2X2 electric motorbikes on the Island, Motubikes has set up a solar-powered base station inside of a repurposed shipping container. With 16 solar panels on the roof ...
Inside a shipping container in the U.K. city of Sheffield, new technology uses water and renewable electricity to pull CO2 out of the air. Other companies are already using “direct air capture ...
Architect Brian Stark wants to tackle the country's affordable housing crisis — one shipping container at a time.
Low, heavy clouds pressed over the sky threatening to turn the already damp red earth from previous downpours in the mega ...
In partnership with Steel + Spark and the City of Phoenix, Stark has introduced a unique housing design dubbed the “X-WING” ...
There’s something about shipping container buildings that gets people excited. Perhaps it’s seeing something so mundane and functional become beautiful and personal? Or witnessing Tetris-like ...
The solar industry will face elevated shipping costs and supply disruptions for at least another year until the global ocean freight system starts to normalize.