Dive summary:
- Coming on the heels of recent stories about reusing shipping containers for housing and about the desirability of modular construction in urban projects, a new division of container-reuse specialist Boxman Studios is all about putting containers into the built environment.
- Boxman is pitching reuse of the metal boxes as a sustainability strategy.
- Boxman has been working with containers as products for the events and trade-show businesses since its founding in 1998 and says its expertise is understanding containers' "unique design, modularity, flexibility and value."
From the article:
"In the right hands, these big metal boxes are extremely pliable," says [Sales Director Jim] Curtis. ...