Shipping containers for home is usual and I have posted in this site. Now, How about with Shipping Containers for Office? You can find it in Rhode Island, US.
This Simple and Low Cost Shipping Containers Office designed by Distill Studio and constructed from 32 old shipping containers (94 tons of “upcycled” steel put back into productive use), which will house 12 office units. The building’s striking contemporary design, environmental philosophy and inexpensive small units are already attracting small businesses, artists, and start-ups that are powering Providence’s growing creative economy.The Box Office will be a model of a small, green (energy-efficient, sustainable) building, using 25% less energy than a conventional new office building. The main goal of the design team was to engineer a well-insulated building, utilizing high performing windows and implement the most efficient HVAC system feasible for the project.

This building will be “all-electric” with no direct use of fossil fuels. All heating and cooling will be with small, decentralized, high efficiency air-to-air heat pumps. Also, typical lighting densities will be 0.6 watts/sf. One reason for the reduced load is the project’s implementation of dual-source lighting; a combination of overhead lighting with daylight response sensors that measure the natural day light and task lighting.

The site will reduce stormwater run-off into the combined storm sewer by 67% through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phyto-remediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water.

The Box Office will have comfortable indoor air quality due to the use of environmentally-friendly interior finishes (non-petroleum-based insulation, low VOC products and no products with formaldehyde, for example), filtered exterior air, and accessible operable windows.

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