According to the Modular Building Institute in 2018, the offsite market was valued at USD 8.9 billion and is projected to reach USD 157.19 billion by 2023. Check out their 11 top tips after the break. What Is Offsite Shipping Container Construction and Why Is It Important Offsite construction is a rapidly growing industry that has turned the construction world on its head. That's why the folks over at Container Home Plans reached out to 23 experts from around the world - designers and owners who have overcome the challenges to build their own container houses - to ask them what they wish they'd known before taking on this challenge. Basically, you modify, and re-purpose used shipping containers and stick them together to build a house Architects, designers, and builders have actually found a way to transform big boxes of steel into beautiful and fully functional homes. Due to their convenient size, shipping containers are well-suited for use in houses and their appeal lies in their apparent simplicity: you get a room delivered in one piece, and you can stack them together to make multiple rooms or join them up to make larger rooms.īut of course, things are never so simple, and using shipping containers to make a house is still fraught with challenges - particularly as the idea is still relatively new, so there are few people with the expertise required to build one without a hitch. There is a hot new trend: shipping container homes. One of the more niche trends in sustainable design of the past few years has been the re-use of shipping containers in order to create the structure of a building.

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