SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Part video chat, part sci-fi fantasy, the Portals art project uses tech and shipping containers to connect strangers across the world, selfies and all. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and ...

A development team is building a 52-unit multifamily project out of 130 used shipping containers in West Palm Beach, Florida. When complete, it will be the largest shipping container housing project ...

WASHINGTON — The four-story, 24-unit apartment building made of repurposed shipping containers in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood is complete. D.C. is home to two other notable buildings made from sea ...

CHESAPEAKE — City Council deferred a vote Tuesday on a proposed shipping container storage facility and warehouse in the Deep Creek area after hearing three hours of public comments — with residents ...

Apr. 2—ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Village of Los Ranchos is testing out a new infrastructure project that may have the ability to ease agricultural production for farmers across the state. The project, ...

Retailers today are being forced to innovate, and the ever-present battle between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar for sales is opening doors to some unique concepts. Take Co-Working In A Box’s new ...

Mining operations in South Africa require major investment in valuable equipment. Purchasing permanent storage facilities can ...

ALAMEDA — The Planning Board has greenlighted a proposal to use former shipping containers to house offices, a cafe and an apartment on a former used car lot across from the Park Street Bridge. Two ...

Two shipping containers were dropped off this week on a grassy lot on the Near East Side that a builder hopes to turn into one of Columbus' first single-family homes built from a steel box. A ...

More than 30,000 apartments are being built in Dallas-Fort Worth. But a small Fort Worth project may be the most unique rental community on the way in North Texas. The 34-unit apartment project south ...

Detroit — Cardboard, markers and utility knives in hand, a mix of high school and college students formed an assembly line inside a 30,000-foot industrial space in Corktown. As two students traced ...