LORD NEIL BENJAMIN GIBSON DISCUSSES SHIPPING CONTAINER HOUSING EXAMPLE: OFF SHORE TRAVELER

Since the 1960s, discarded containers have been utilized by the United States military, initially as fully functioning, secure and mobile hospitals. Today, they are used for a variety of functions, from mobile to permanent housing.

Shipping containers are formally identified as Inter Model Steel Building Units (ISBU), and in agreement with Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson’s opinion as the ideal construct for low cost, highly efficient, long term housing. ISBUs are among the strongest stationary structures in the world, composed of corten steel, able to withstand extensive environmental attacks such as hurricanes, tornados, typhoons and even earthquakes, making them uniquely durable, and capable of carrying 30 tons of cargo. The average shipping containers are 40 feet in length by 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet high.

Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson and SFBBL AG through the SEED Foundation have created an approach to using ISBUs, shipping containers, as part of an eco-village design to provide relief to the homeless, and implement extended resolve to what has been an on going issue.

Shipping container housing provides a unique kind of structure that offers a wide assortment of options.

One such option involved a robust, fully mobile accommodation unit that sleeps 2 staff members in a container that is 20 x 8 ft, for a total 160 sqf.

The unit is equipped with a complete bathroom (prefabricated- composite), bunk bed, desk and chair, 2 lockers, separate cabinet that also houses the hot water tank for the shower and the other services. With standard waterproof connections outside the unit for easy connection to the services, the units can be deployed quickly. The window above the desk is also equipped with steel storm shutters for harsh conditions that provides additional security.

The walls have additional reinforcement and insulation for on board conditions on ships: when secured on a deck they can immediately serve as accommodation. A separate A/C unit is provided that can be installed with a special frame on the facade of the container during use as an accommodation for cold and hot air, including ventilation, which can also be easily folded away during transport.

The floor is finished with heavy duty vinyl, for easy cleaning. The sound insulation all around guarantees optimal conditions for undisturbed resting / sleeping. The original container doors are not removed, making this unit ideal for safe storage and protection for stormy conditions. The units can be stacked 6 high as any standard ISO dry freight container, which is the basis for these units. When equipped with separate staircases and walkways, it is simple to put together a complete building in no time.

This is the kind of individual, pre-fabricated, durable unit that can be easily transported and constructed on delivery as an immediate means of shelter.

Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson is currently working with a number of governments to begin the first phase of a housing project that uses shipping containers almost entirely.

LORD NEIL BENJAMIN GIBSON DISCUSSES SHIPPING CONTAINER HOUSING EXAMPLE: FESTIVILLA

Inter Model Steel Building Units (ISBU), as identified by Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, remain an ideal construct for housing options.

One such example of ISBUs, or shipping containers as they are often referred, can be seen through the specially built luxury minihotel unit: 2 rooms in one 20 ft container in Denmark for the Festivilla rock music event that attracts over 50,000 spectators during the 5 days. In order to offer top accommodation on the festival ground, the hotel unit was developed and designed to be portable. It contains a double bed, full bathroom, heating and ventilation and high quality finishes. The entire unit was designed for quick installation and simple storage and removal.

Such an approach, once again, reveals the practical and diverse methods shipping containers can be used in providing shelter, even under mobile, situational scenarios.

ISBUs are among the strongest stationary structures in the world, able to withstand enormous environmental attacks such as hurricanes, tornados, typhoons and even earthquakes. Every shipping container is designed to carry at least 30 tons of cargo and is composed of corten steel making it’s construction very durable, capable of withstanding the rigors of ocean travel. Typically, each shipping container is 40 feet in length by 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet.

Similarly, Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, through SFBBL AG and the SEED Foundation, has been working to arrange shipping containers as low income housing, for the needy and homeless around the world. 

LORD NEIL BENJAMIN GIBSON DISCUSSES SHIPPING CONTAINER HOUSING EXAMPLE: SERVOTEL, HAITI

Inter Model Steel Building Units (ISBU), as identified by Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, remain an ideal construct for housing options and are mong the strongest stationary structures in the world, composed of corten steel, able to withstand extensive environmental attacks such as hurricanes, tornados, typhoons and even earthquakes, making them uniquely durable, and capable of carrying 30 tons of cargo. The average shipping containers are 40 feet in length by 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet high.

Lord Neil Gibson and SFBBL AG through the SEED Foundation have been devising methods and implementation strategies to initiate solutions for resolving growing problems related to the impoverished and the homeless. ISBU structures, also known as shipping containers, continue to prove the most cost efficient, long term solution available today.

Since the 1960s, discarded containers have been used by the United States military as fully functioning, secure and mobile hospitals. Today, they are used for a variety of functions, from mobile to temporary to permanent housing.

Shortly after the earth quake in January 2010 in Haïti, a dire need arose to provide adequate shelters to the victims who lost their homes in the disaster. To assist with this process, a private hotel owner on the island chose to quickly have a 4 star hotel, called Servotel, built close to the national airport near the capital of Haïti, Port-au-Prince. The hotel was intended to house many international guests from the media and from NGO’s that visited the island to survey the disaster. Nearly all hotels on the island were either completely collapsed or unusable

A complete new hotel consisting of prefabricated hotel units was in less than 8 weeks designed and engineered. 72 rooms of each 4,8 x 5 m, complete with all furniture and equipment to the last detail. All rooms were designed and engineered based on European building standards. The large bathrooms fully tiled and provide high standard luxury with a bathtub, toilet, shower and sink. All rooms also have their own A/C system and digital door lock system.

The extra wide (4,8 m) design of the rooms give a very spacious look and feel, quite different from the standard hotel room width. These hotel rooms consist of the shipping container size modules that are transported separately but are connected on site. Travellers that stay in the hotel are unaware of any construction details and consistently surprised to learn the construction of their rooms came from fully finished prefabricated steel modules transformed into the gorgeous hotel building they stayed in.