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Schools often have  a tight budget and shipping containers can prove to be an economic solution.  The fact that shipping containers are made from strong, weather resistant corten steel make them ideal for a number of purposes.   Add to this that they are by their very construction extremely strong and secure, as well as easily transportable they are ideally suited for the school environment.

The eight most popular uses for shipping containers in Schools are:-

1. Providing additional storage for items such as chairs, sports equipment etc in all sizes from 10ft to 40ft
2. Shipping Container Conversions can make great classrooms at about a third of the cost of traditional buiding methods
3. Changing rooms can be made from 20ft containers and sited next to the sports field
4. Cycle stores made from used containers
5. Insulated shipping containers are often used to house musical instruments and additional computer equipment
6. Recycling/rubbish collection areas
7. After school clubs/common rooms can be made as a shipping container conversion and are frequently sited in the school car parking area
8. Chemical stores made from 10ft shipping containers

There are, of course, special considerations to be taken into account when buying and siting a shipping container in school grounds.   Not least of these is the need for health and safety which is why it is often worth asking the supplier of the container to deliver it at a time to suit the school timetable.   Most will be able to offer time slots early in the morning before the students arrive or whilst lessons are going on.  

20ft shipping container conversion

Shipping Storage Containers are shipping containers that are being used for static storage rather than shipping. Mind you the fact that the containers are extremely transportable is not to be disregarded. Even if the containers are to be used for storage they need to be delivered to site as easily and economically as possible. The fact that shipping containers were designed for easy “intermodal” transportation means that they are easily delivered by lorries fitted with a hi-ab crane and can be offloaded on site without any additional costs.

Shipping storage containers are used not only by individuals but by businesses. Just as the fact that these shipping containers can be placed easily on site appeals to the home storage market as much as it does to companies. The fact that stock or file archiving can be stored securely near to the office or clients without the need for taking more expensive commercial space appeals to the business user. Add to that the fact that these shipping storage containers are made of corten steel constrction of these iso containers makes them extremely strong and weather proof. Add to that that the lock boxes and heavy duty security padlocks make the container extremely secure then it is easy to see why shipping containers are so often used for storage containers.

Recently, however, shipping storage containers have been used as storage for more unusual items. A great deal has been written about companies like Dell and Hewlett Packard being used to house servers for computers. The flexibility of the container to be fitted out with racking and climatic control makes them extremely versatile and easily adaptable to give a variety of solutions to the different conditions that computer servers are being asked to withstand. Some of the containers that are even decked out with servers and situated off shore.

Heavy industry has not been left behind as far as the use of shipping storage containers is concerned. Generators are built into shipping containers that have been sound proofed and insulated. Industry also uses the containers to provide workshops or convert them for chemical storage.

The adaptation of shipping containers to storage containers is becoming more and more commonplace. The phrase shipping storage containers looks here to stay.