West Coast Green, the home show dedicated to sustainable home construction and design, kicks off its three-day run Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center with a logical centerpiece: a house made ...

Shipping container buildings have gained incredible popularity over the last year. And now here is another one to add to the list – the 2+ Weekend House byJure Kotnik Arhitekt. This mini housing unit ...

Shipping containers are known for their inherent strength, wide availability and relatively low cost — making them a practical and sustainable option for affordable housing. Last year, South ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Shrink-wrap coverings, prefab bathrooms and portable shipping containers — these are all part of the new normal as the construction industry adapts to safety protocols in a COVID-19 world. Builders ...

At the intersection of tiny houses and container homes are prefab homes: technically mobile houses that promise to be the sum of all the great things from either category, and zero minuses. This one ...

Palisades and Eaton fire victims are getting some unique temporary housing thanks to some local prefab construction companies. Firms like Plant Prefab, Azure Printed Homes and Ark Container Homes have ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

Adam Kalkin isn’t the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction ...