Day: mars 4, 2026
Fire safety considerations when insulating and cladding container homes
When you transform a steel shipping container into a dwelling, fire safety quickly stops being une simple case of “add insulation, add cladding, done”. You are creating a layered system: steel + insulation + membranes + lining + cladding, souvent avec beaucoup de vide d’air. C’est précisément dans ces interstices que les incendies deviennent difficiles
Green roofs and living walls on container houses to improve insulation and biodiversity
Can a steel box really become a cool, quiet, biodiverse mini-ecosystem? With a green roof and living walls, a container house gets closer to that ideal than most conventional builds. But unlike the inspirational images on Pinterest, a planted roof or façade on a container is above all une affaire de technique : charges, étanchéité,