Shipping Container Homes

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A local company is set to launch a new series of garage suites made out of shipping containers that could make a rental investment feasible for the typical homeowner.

Honomobo builds the units in a factory just west of Stony Plain, installing them on top of a new garage in under a week. The first suite will be displayed in Churchill Square from June 3-5, before it’s installed in the Ritchie neighbourhood backyard of co-founder Daniel Engelman.

“It’s faster, easier and has way higher performance,” Engelman said.

Because they’re built in a factory with closed-cell, spray foam insulation, the units have higher efficiency than regular construction. They need only an electrical hook-up and can be so-called net positive, producing energy for the main house if the customer adds solar panels.

Full Story (Edmonton Journal)

 

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David Staples: How a local builder came up with Edmonton's hottest business idea
Daniel Engelman, the man with the hottest business idea in Edmonton — building homes out of used shipping containers — has the construction business in his blood.

Engelman’s grandparents, Stan and Ursula, started a local construction company, Engelman Homes, in 1953. Engelman’s father Terry took over the company and ran it until 2004.

As teenagers, Engelman and his older brother Chris spent their summers doing grunt work and landscaping. Their dad was a perfectionist. If work wasn’t done right, it was ripped out and done again. “That quality and attention to detail was definitely drilled into us,” Daniel Engelman says.

Full Story (Edmonton Journal)

 

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Edmonton company Novhäus shows off new shipping container homes
They are homes like you've never seen before — bright, modern, liveable and constructed from the hull of an old shipping container.

It was this element of eccentricity that brought Tracy and Kevin Bennett to an open house of shipping container homes on Thursday.

Tracy Bennett said the couple was looking at the home because it's environmentally conscious and, perhaps more importantly, it's unique.

"It's different, it's kind of modern and unique. We've been researching [shipping container] homes for the last few months just to see what's out there and this is the way we want to go."

Full Story (CBC Edmonton)

 

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Edmonton to jump aboard the shipping container home revolution
Edmonton is getting its first multi-storey, affordable housing complex made entirely from repurposed shipping containers.

Step Ahead Properties, a local property management company, has enlisted Calgary-based Ladacor to make 20 units made entirely out of non-combustible steel at its Westgate Manor site in the west-end Edmonton neighbourhood of Glenwood.

A mixture of one and two-bedroom units should be ready for move-in by next summer.

While there are existing laneway properties made out of shipping containers in Edmonton, this will be the city's first apartment building of this size to make use of the material, said AJ Slivinski, owner of Step Ahead Properties.

Full Story (Metro Edmonton)

 

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A new hotel in Bruderheim, Alta., is thinking outside the box by inviting guests to sleep inside refurbished shipping containers.

The $6-million structure is almost entirely built out of containers — making it the largest structure of its kind in North America.

The new hotel offers 63 rooms, all with kitchenettes. It has a lounge area, fitness room and large meeting room. Room rates range from $119 to $139 per night.


The Studio 6 Extended Stay Hotel, located beside a vacant Shell lot off Highway 45, illuminated its vacancy sign for the first time Dec. 2.

"You can't tell that it's built out of Sea Cans," said Edmonton entrepreneur Boris Javorski, who owns the hotel.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...pen-for-business-in-bruderheim-alta-1.3915218

 

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This is the start of the Green Violin SeaCan Cabin! The construction is actually progressed beyond when we took this photo and the interior is finished now! We are moving the unit to a vacant lot in Parkdale and it will be Green Violin's onsite office. Keep your eyes open for the Ribbon Cutting announcement!