Talk:Shipping container architecture

message: An R19 value has been ascribed by ASTM C236 testing but the effect is not neccessarily cumulative as the thermal transmission is eliminated to an R-19 equivalency but that doesn't correspond to a cumulative value for the multiple coats. The mechanism is different from traditional insulative materials.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.244.194.42 (talk) 00:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disadvantages - Temperature/Insulation 

message: Not notable? Are you joking? It's a unique interesting concept that is considered to be radical, out-of-the-box thinking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zsmith (talk • contribs) 20 December 2005
:If you think about it, it's rather in the box, since...well...that's what you're living in... Cernen Xanthine Katrena 22:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, after my "Political football" other use was deleated by User:CubBCas "a joke". I will let the community decide whether that is true or not for my project: <a href=http://www.itsogood.com/containerworkshop/tarball/government/index.html>Develeper/Planning Correspodence</a>. User:bwildasi Wed May 28 18:00:32 UTC 2008  —Preceding comment was added at 21:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: older discussion

message: I have seen a few articles mentioning abandoned shipping containers are piling up in U.S. ports; however, I have been unable to find any information to verify this.  I am curious as to exactly what ports these are piling up in, and what is done with abandoned containers?  Are they given away for free?  Who's responsibility is this--the shipping company or the port's management?  Squideshi 16:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I kinda recall something similar. The problem is largely due to the US trade imbalance whereby the US now imports a lot more manufactured products than it exports. Much of it I imagine, comes from China through the Port of Long Beach. In addition, I also recall something about container ships coming from the US having a sizable load of empty containers. - Htra0497 09:49, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandoned Shipping Containers 

message: A pointer to a collection of links, Making Light: Shipping container architecture, via boingboing. Might be useful. --Quiddity 18:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are already plenty of links, examples, and references and such.  A link to a site with only examples by one company is generally considered to be spam here, and is usually added by obvious company shills or anonymous accounts.  (I'm not saying you are one, but it would help if you had a login id and a history of editing beyond just three attempts to 'share' this one company's references.)  Unless there is an obvious or overwhelming reason why we would reference or feature one company's works, it is unlikely that this sort of thing would be added to the article on an ongoing basis. Centerone (talk) 18:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: *Agree. Tmaull (talk) 21:11, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Recently the cost per unit was raised from USD$900 to USD$1200.  That was the best price someone could find in Houston, Texas.  I think that is still low.  When I saw the change I did a local search in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the best price I could find was C$2175 (USD$2129) for a 20 foot.  Of course, 40 foot units are even more expensive.
Can a few people out there, worldwide, who watch this article, look for local prices, so we can have a more accurate unit cost estimate?
CubBC (talk) 07:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Bump?  Anyone with more time than me willing to see if external references can be found?  Being as unit costs are going to be a time dependent thing, would it be better to not quote costs specifically.  Alternatively, remove this section. 174.3.229.241 (talk) 06:35, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this was from 2009, this probably should've been a new section. Wikipedia's talk pages are old software and it shows. Anyway, I've removed the part with specific costs. These are rarely included in article anyway (per WP:PRICES and WP:COST), and sources are going to be especially difficult for this. Sources should always be reliable, which rarely means commercial sites, and commercial sites are the most likely to have prices. It doesn't help that this article gets steady stream of spam (perhaps surprisingly). If an independent source which mentions prices is found, for some reason, it could be included, but it would half to explain why the price was so significant. The time-dependent thing is also important, as you mention. Grayfell (talk) 06:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unit Costs 

message: I've proposed a merger. Please discuss at Talk:SG Blocks. Thanks. Airplaneman (talk) 17:49, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[SG Blocks]] 

message: I think one major aspect is not mentioned. For a lot of big buildings (by example the travelodge hotel in London) with many identical units, only NEW containers are used. For these containers many disadvantages are not valid any more ( Cargo Spillages, Treatment of timber floors, Solvents), because these containers are manufactured under the precondition to be used only as housing containers.  Additionally the special welding and cutting work (closed front plus entrance door hole, windows, additional structural elements) can be done by the specialists of the the container manufacturers. Of course, this is only possible for orders bigger than 100 containers. 
The idea to combine prefabrication and containers to new elements, which allows another type of interesting architecture with low cost is not mentioned.
some companies follow this path (MOD, Agson Engineers, Verbussystems). These prefabricated containers are almost all produced in China, to use the lower salary level, compared to USA and Europe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hjgo (talk • contribs) 11:27, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Remarks 

message: Reference # 4, "Shipping containters could be 'dream' homes for thousands" the link is broken. 198.8.67.3 (talk) 14:24, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 4 

message: One concern I have is that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish modular buildings from buildings crafted from repurposed shipping containers.  Due to the nature of transporting the buildings, modular buildings frequently have to be built out of components of the same general size and shape as shipping containers, because they have to fit on the trailer of a large truck just like shipping containers do.  This makes this something we should watch out for. In a recent edit Wwwwolf added a Finnish language article as a reference that shipping containers are used for a particular temporary prison mentioned in the article.  The google translation of the article doesn't seem to say it is made out of shipping containers, only that it's a modular building.  Wwwwolf is a native speaker of Finnish, and I appreciate him bringing his knowledge and skills to Wikipedia, but in his comments, he didn't say the article translated to shipping containers, but only that "The photo gallery shows that they're clearly interlinked shipping containers", which I'm not sure it does.  Yes, they *look* like they could possibly be shipping containers, as they're the same size and general shape of them, but that could be as I said, due to the nature of shipping the parts, and/or due to the nature of the size of the typical jail cell or holding tank.  While I'm curious if anybody knows more details about this particular building, I mainly thought it important to raise the point that we should be mindful of the fact that not all rectangular modular component buildings are built out of shipping containers. Centerone (talk) 21:15, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modular buildings vs. shipping container buildings..