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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Eco-Pak: the house with shipping included ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ireland]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Last I was in Co. Galway, a couple of my favorite pubs had them for separate smoking areas - worked great..oddly enough, there was no one in the pub proper - all of my freinds were in the container rooms - complete with Liverpool football on the tele.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[GregGold]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:27:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Great idea]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[We built a home out of a 20 foot shipping container for a show in Georgia. It would sleep four, a kitchen, shower and living room/dining room. It had solar PV and thermal and was totally self sufficient. It was a model built soon after the last earth quake in Haiti to show that these types of homes can be built not only for emergencies but for daily use at a very low cost.There are more than 35 MILLION such containers which are almost new lying near a port in the USA. It will make sense to assemble such homes for emergencies instead of using conventional mobile homes with Formaldehyde.One of my friend built a home in Arizona similar to the very first photo seen in this attachment.http://designcrave.com/2009-06-22/10-brilliant-boxy-and-sustainable-shipping-container-homes/. This was not only large, quiet, bug fire proof, but was very elegant.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[usdoc1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:51:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I like this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are tons of shipping containers that are nearing retirement age (seen better days) that could be used as part of a home... I can see a lot of uses for these all over the world. I would love to see some designs for some of these homes on stilts for waterfront areas. Perhaps some ways to coat the container to make them rust and corrosion proof for costal conditions (spray foam insulation perhaps).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[i8thecat4]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:30:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Different priorities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Vehicles, from trailers up through very large ships, are designed to to transport standardized shipping containers.  Equipment to load &amp; unload those vehicles are also designed to handle containers of standard sizes.  The Eco Pak &quot;...can be shipped in large quantities...has potential for disaster and emergency housing applications.&quot;  Coates and Green have other designs for ordinary situations where time isn't critical]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[theotherwill]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:21:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are better solutions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are already modular house construction designs where the materials shipping container is used in the construction of the house - but unlike the standard shipping container discussed herein, this other housing shipping container concept doesn't limit the house design because of it's manufactured dimensions. Instead the walls of the container are removable at site and can be incorporated in the house design in such a way that it doesn't limit shape or most dimensions of the house. Changing standard shipping container designs to allow wall relocation would rapidly solve the problem container build up around high import ports.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dduggerbiocepts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:58:17 -0700</pubDate>
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