Posted by admin on Jan 14, 2012

Craning 3Twenty Container Camp

This is a video taken of a unit we structurally designed for 3twenty Solutions in Saskatchewan, Canada for a container camp.  It is being loaded onto a truck for hauling to the mining camp.  Note the stiffening along the top rail – that allows us to put the openings in the container without it flexing. [...]

Posted by admin on Dec 9, 2011

Here’s a Challenge!

With the trouble Jodie Foster’s father is in for making unrealistic claims in container construction, I’m going to throw down the gauntlet to some of you guys out there on the Internet that claim container construction is a much cheaper way to build houses.

Posted by admin on Dec 2, 2011

View From Atlanta Container House (video)

This is a video which shows the view from our container house in Atlanta.  It’s a really awesome view of downtown Atlanta.

Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2011

Shipping Container House, Connecticut Update

Here’s some pictures taken by the client for the house in New Haven, CT:                                                

Posted by admin on Nov 15, 2011

Continued Informaton on the Connecticut Container House

Most of the two- and three-family houses lining Vernon Street in New Haven were built in the early 1900s and look like those constructed during the same era in any other city in Connecticut: spacious front porches, flat or pitched roofs and bay windows.

So architecturally, the house now going up on a vacant lot at 56 Vernon will have plenty of curb appeal, blending perfectly into the neighborhood — with one notable exception: It is about as far as a builder can get from traditional wood frame construction.

Posted by admin on Nov 11, 2011

Floor Slab Settlement

This house looked like it was OK, but a closer examination and some experience shows a severe problem.

Posted by admin on Oct 1, 2011

3d for Residential Structural Design

This is one of my more recent projects, the architect was dencity Design in Atlanta.  It’s a very difficult house – look at the cantilevers:                             This kind of strucutre is difficult to engineer because you have to visualize a very complex [...]

Posted by admin on Sep 20, 2011

Using Technology Effectively

Here’s a project I’m working on right now, a hotel in Florida.  It’s a 4 story hotel, and we are building the upper stories out of modules made from Cold Formed Steel.  I drew the structural concept in Softplan and showed it to the client today through GoToMeeting.  This can save a lot of trouble [...]