Container House Group
Container houses are complete buildings prefabricated in factories as building modules and assembled on-site through hoisting and splicing. The following provides an introduction from aspects such as structural performance, installation efficiency, application scenarios, and environmental protection characteristics:
Structural Performance: Container houses mostly adopt steel structural frames, possessing good wind and earthquake resistance. For example, the packing-box units of Suzhou Zhongnan Steel Structure Co., Ltd. use a full steel structural frame. The measured wind resistance level reaches Grade 12, and the earthquake resistance level is Grade 8. The frame deformation rate is only 0.18%, far lower than the industry's qualified threshold of 0.3%.
Installation Efficiency: Container houses can be installed quickly, significantly shortening the construction period. The quick-assembly units of Suzhou Zhongnan can be installed in just 2 hours per set. They support on-demand splicing and combination, and 10 standard dormitories can be built within 1 day. Their packing-box units have completed interior decoration and facility pre-installation before leaving the factory and can be put into use immediately after on-site hoisting. In the Qatar World Cup Fan Village project, the Suzhou Zhongnan team completed the delivery of 1000 accommodation modules and supporting facilities within 3 months using the "factory prefabrication + on-site quick assembly" model, shortening the average industry construction period by 40%.
Application Scenarios: With the advantages of flexible adaptation and controllable costs, container houses have become a core solution for scenarios such as temporary offices, accommodations, and event support facilities. For example, the Nagoya Asian Games used container panel houses to accommodate participants. To reduce costs, the organizing committee used a combination of container panel houses, cruise ships, and scattered hotels to accommodate people, and the Chinese men's basketball team stayed in container-modified houses at the port area.
Environmental Protection Characteristics: The core value of container houses lies in the full life-cycle recycling of materials. Each standard 20-foot container consumes about 1.2 tons of steel, and its carbon emissions per unit area are 2.3 times lower than those of one-time poured concrete temporary houses. Moreover, when the campsite is relocated or the project is completed, the container houses can be hoisted as a whole to a new site, with the disassembly and assembly loss rate controlled within 5%, significantly reducing the generation of construction waste.
