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    This document discusses using intermodal steel building units (ISBUs), also known as shipping containers, for construction. Some key points: 1) ISBUs/shipping containers can be used to build housing and other structures, providing an estimated 40% cost savings over traditional construction. 2) ISBUs range in price from $900 used to $6,000 new, and can be assembled into structures in as little as 90 days. 3) Proper insulation is required, but ceramic paint can provide insulation allowing an R-28 rating. Cranes are usually needed for construction.

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    This document discusses using intermodal steel building units (ISBUs), also known as shipping containers, for construction. Some key points: 1) ISBUs/shipping containers can be used to build housing and other structures, providing an estimated 40% cost savings over traditional construction. 2) ISBUs range in price from $900 used to $6,000 new, and can be assembled into structures in as little as 90 days. 3) Proper insulation is required, but ceramic paint can provide insulation allowing an R-28 rating. Cranes are usually needed for construction.

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    PAS - Containers

    Uploaded by

    Matthew Leaper
    This document discusses using intermodal steel building units (ISBUs), also known as shipping containers, for construction. Some key points: 1) ISBUs/shipping containers can be used to build housing and other structures, providing an estimated 40% cost savings over traditional construction. 2) ISBUs range in price from $900 used to $6,000 new, and can be assembled into structures in as little as 90 days. 3) Proper insulation is required, but ceramic paint can provide insulation allowing an R-28 rating. Cranes are usually needed for construction.

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    Omaha Social Capital, LLC

    Park Avenue Square


    Concept Slides: Container Village

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    Inter-modal Steel Building Units
    (ISBUs) [Container Houses]
    Facts:

    – Roughly $900 each used, $6000 brand new


    – In the US it makes sense to buy used, they get
    shipped back to Asia empty
    – Can be stacked up to 12 high when empty
    – Provisions for insulation must be made; ceramic
    paint can get them to R-28
    – A crane is almost always required during
    construction
    – Have been made two story and Uniform Building
    Code (UBC) compliant
    Inter-modal Steel Building Units
    (ISBUs) [Container Houses]
    Facts:

    – Estimated cost savings of 40% compared to


    traditional construction
    – Can be assembled in as little as 90 days
    – Can utilize typical concrete block foundations, or
    other more creative measures
    – Can buy prefab container houses for $76,000
    (12 Containers)
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    FIRST COST SAVINGS OF 40%

    There's a method to MSFT's modular


    approach. Rather than spend hundreds of
    hours opening server boxes, and
    connecting them with cables and loading
    roll in
    them with software, MSFT can
    a container in just a
    couple of days.
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    OPERATIONAL SAVINGS

    “The hope is to run the facility with


    half as many people as at its
    previous sites. Even better, it's
    easier to monitor and whisk away
    heat generated in these confined modules
    than cooling an entire building.”
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    INGENUITY WELCOME

    “One source says Microsoft hopes the


    design will help cut by one-third
    the power bills that typically take up
    some 40% of a site's operating cost.”
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    OPPORTUNITY

    • Immediate development opportunity at


    www.ParkAveSquare.com – est. 40 units.
    • $78k unit cost vs. $600/mo. rent equals
    sub 10 year payback @ 5% escalation w/
    15 year public funding; 20 year design life.
    • Long term contracting opportunity
    leveraging capabilities of design-build
    project team.
    RESOURCES
    – www.urbanspace.com – they built the Container
    City in Europe. Great pictures, looks sweet.
    – http://www.bobvila.com/HowTo_Library/Building_
    a_Container_House-Building_Systems-
    A2413.html
    – http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/01/shipping
    _contai.php
    – http://www.lot-ek.com/
    – http://www.shipping-container-housing.com/
    ML@MatthewLeaper.com

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