Shenzhen Container Integrated House

Shenzhen container integrated house is a building form that disassembles a complete house into standardized modules, constructs them in a factory, and then transports them to the destination for rapid assembly.

Construction Mode

• Factory Prefabrication: The entire building is divided into individual housing modules. All processes, including the main structure, water and electricity pipelines, bathroom waterproofing, sanitary equipment, cabinets, and wardrobes, are completed inside the factory. This is similar to manufacturing cars on an assembly line, achieving highly integrated production. For example, a structural modular smart factory in Guangdong uses fully automated production lines and robot collaboration to disassemble a house into six components: the bottom, top, and four sides. These components are produced simultaneously on multiple sub-production lines and then assembled into a complete box at the end of the production line, with a daily output of up to 50 modules.
• On-site Assembly: After the prefabricated modules are transported to the project site, they are assembled like building blocks to form a complete building. This parallel operation mode changes the traditional serial construction logic of building brick by brick on-site, allowing multiple processes to proceed simultaneously and significantly shortening the construction period.

Advantages and Characteristics

• Short Construction Period: The construction period is more than 60% shorter than that of traditional construction. For example, a modular elderly care apartment manufactured in China and purchased by British merchants was shipped from the factory to a British port and completed on-site hoisting and construction in just two weeks. The MRDC modular hotel project by China Construction Science and Industry Corporation in Papua New Guinea had a traditional construction delivery cycle of 14 to 18 months, while the modular solution took only about 7 months in total.
• Low Cost: Significant savings in labor and materials are achieved. Skilled construction workers in Europe and the United States have high hourly wages, with labor accounting for up to 40% of the total project cost. In contrast, a modular construction site typically requires only about 45 permanent personnel, while a traditional cast-in-place site requires 80 to 120 multi-skilled workers. The steel waste from standardized CNC cutting in factories is only 3% to 5%, while that on traditional construction sites is 8% to 12%. Lightweight steel structural modules also significantly reduce the consumption of foundation materials, lowering material usage by 60% to 70%.
• High Quality: The manufacturing precision is stably controlled within 1 to 2 millimeters, and production in the factory is less affected by environmental factors, ensuring better quality assurance.

Market Situation

• Export Growth: According to Shenzhen Customs data, in the first four months of 2026, enterprises across the country exported modular buildings worth 1.68 billion yuan through Shenzhen ports, a year-on-year increase of 19.6%, with exports to more than 150 countries and regions.
• Wide Application: It is not only used in residential construction but also in high-end fields such as data centers. For example, in the first half of 2026, CIMC's modular data center business secured new orders for approximately 200MW of cloud computing and AI computing power data centers, with revenue soaring more than fivefold year-on-year.