Shipping Container Conversions are varied. We have got used to seeing Shipping Containers as houses, shops and even surfing tanks. We forget that often they are used for more straightforward and industrial uses. For example, we have just completed a container conversion cutting down a 40ft new high cube container into a 25ft plant room.
25ft shipping container conversion
Extra set of doors added to Conversion
The high cube container needed an additional personnel door as well as another set of container doors at the front end of the container. It also had to have three apertures cut into the container to allow for the pipework. Steel C sections were added to take the spread the weight of the generator over the floor of the container. The container was then sprayed in the company colours before being delivered to the client for them to put in the plant.
This is only one type of plant room conversion. Other conversions have involved putting in extensive steel work to support plant for a torque conversion. Lighting and basic electrics were also required. Often soundproofing is needed so that the noise from the plant is container within the container.
- 30ft steel work for
torque container
But why use shipping containers to house plant? The fact that shipping containers make plant easily transportable as well as being infinitely adaptable may provide the answer. These shipping container conversions may not be as glamorous as some others but all are as essential.