Talk about container house, you may have a image of old rusty shipping container expose in a scrapyard. ‘Those are for the home less people’ you may even think. But as technology revolutions, especially material science, container house are no-longer stayed as you imagined. Instead of modify discard, old, rusty shipping containers, people turned to sandwich panels. Manufacturers combined steel frame with sandwich panels to assemble a container house. Even the new container houses uses all fresh manufactured parts it still more affordable than a real shipping container house due to the price raise of shipping containers.

Compare to modified container house what are the advantages of new container house?

There are mainly three types of container houses: foldable container house, flat packed container house and quick assemble container house. Foldable container house provide the most convenience since it requires the least human power and time to setup for use. All walls, windows and door are pre-installed before shipping. Two to three person is more than enough for the set up. They only need to lift up all walls and put on screws to stable the structure.

Flat packed container house provides more room for customization than foldable container houses. It packs all required parts in between the pre-assembled base and ceiling. The pre-assembled base and ceiling ensure better quality of final product and require less labour for the assembly.

Quick assemble container house requires most labour out of the three type of container houses. But it cost less for shipping, since it comes in parts and can be packed more compact. This property makes it the best choice for staff dormitory.

These new container house can even be stacked for less field area. With a maximum of 3 level stacking, further shines its affordability.

I mentioned the material different between ship container house and new container house. The new material utilize sandwich panels for wall and ceiling, they are lighter than pure steel and provides properties unobtainable for steel product. Sandwich panels are made of two sheet metal with insulating material in between them. Most common insulation used is mineral wool. Mineral wool also known as rock wool, provides the best fire proof property out of all insulation material. It also provide sound proof ability. For a ship container, rainy day could be a nightmare, because of the noise produced when rain drop sticks the ceiling. New container house are different, the insulation material provides sound absorption, reduce the noise level. Furthermore, new container house even provides option for slope roofing, makes it even suitable for areas where rain more common. It also provides better thermal insulation than ship container, since ship container was never designed for temperature insulate.

Pricing of container house

Three base type container houses are more affordable than modified ship container, because of few reasons. First of all it requires less material to build. Instead of thick and heavy facade steel plate, we are now using materials that are lighter, but provide the same structural support.