Container House Basics

Container houses are habitable or office buildings transformed from containers as their basic structural modules. They are environmentally friendly, flexible, and cost-effective, widely used in temporary housing, creative spaces, and other fields.

Features
Container houses adopt a modular design and are prefabricated in factories. Using the container body as the basic unit, they can be used individually or combined horizontally and vertically to form spacious spaces, with a maximum of 3 layers stacked vertically. Their structure is stable, with container units welded from special steel sections as standard components and connected between containers with bolts, making installation convenient and quick. The houses are highly integrated, requiring no secondary decoration on-site. They can be occupied immediately after being hoisted into place and can be moved as a whole, reducing the cost of secondary utilization. Additionally, to adapt to long-distance sea transport, the house body is divided into parts such as the roof, floor, columns, and panels. Multiple houses can be packaged into independent units for transport, significantly saving costs.

Application Scenarios

1. Temporary Housing: Commonly used as workers' dormitories on construction sites or as rental housing.
2. Creative Spaces: For example, Shandong Zaozhuang Shanting District uses container houses to create characteristic homestay scenic spots, and in the commercial sector, they are transformed into 24-hour self-service fitness pods.
3. Post-Disaster Emergency Buildings: Quickly deployed in the construction of emergency medical facilities to meet urgent needs.
4. Special Industries: In harsh construction environments such as mining and the oil industry, the houses can be used immediately upon arrival without installation and can be moved as a whole with the progress of the project.

Specifications and Parameters (Taking Modular Box-Type Houses as an Example)
The单体 (individual unit) dimensions are 6055mm in length (5845mm net indoor length), 2990/2435mm in width (2780/2220mm net indoor width), and 2896mm in height (2500mm net indoor height). Design parameters include a roof live load of 1.0KN/㎡, a floor live load of 2.0KN/㎡, and a wind load of 0.6KN/m. The frame is prefabricated in factories using hot-dip galvanized sections. The insulation layer consists of 100mm glass wool for the roof and floor (optional for the floor), and the walls can be made of 75mm rock wool color-steel composite panels. The ceiling is made of color-steel corrugated panels, the floor is made of 1.8mm thick rubber-plastic flooring, and the doors and windows are steel doors and plastic-steel sliding windows, respectively. The electrical system is prefabricated on the roof, with water supply laid along the walls and drainage handled on the wall sides.

Construction Method
It does not rely on a concrete foundation and adopts screw pile technology: A specialized machine screws steel piles into the ground, continuously monitoring pressure and torque to verify stability. Once the piles reach the stable soil layer, they support the weight. The containers are welded into an integral structure, with the welding plates coated with anti-rust paint and the edge joints sealed with nitrile rubber-based aluminum foil tape to prevent corrosion.