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A steel shipping container becomes a building unit that is cut and fitted for windows and doors.
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Strong, Affordable Storm-Ready Housing Project
Building with Steel Shipping Containers (BV0201)
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Bob is back in storm-threatened Florida to kick off season 2 of Bob Vila with a unique housing project that brings affordable, storm-resistant housing to a neighborhood that needs it most. Bob joins Askia Aquil of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services (SPNHS), who explains the economic decline and blight that once swallowed this neighborhood built in the 1920s and abandoned by its seasonal property owners. Aquil and SPNHS are helping create opportunities for first-time home ownership in this revitalized neighborhood of single-family homes by joining with Bob, Tampa Armature Works (TAW), and Barrow Construction to build fast, affordable, and storm-ready housing out of abandoned steel shipping containers. David Cross of TAW explains how the 700,000 abandoned shipping containers in U.S. ports represent a stockpile of potential intermodal steel building units (ISBU’s) ready to be converted into strong and affordable housing. Cross shows Bob the structural components of these containers, including the 1 1/8-inch thick marine-grade Apitone flooring that comes standard with each one. Cross reviews how the containers are cut and fitted for windows and doors, and sprayed with SuperTherm insulating ceramic coating to prevent heat transfer through the metal surface.
Additional Show Information
• Stem Wall Foundations
• Converting Shipping Containers for Housing
• Building a Container House
• Ceramic Coatings for Increased Insulation
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| Bob kicks off Season 2 of Bob Vila in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he meets with Askia Aquil of St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services to talk about the upcoming project ...
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| Bob meets Buba Barrow of Barrow Construction, the general contractor for the container-built housing project, and Ray Price of SPNHS, the project manager for the job. Barrow, a former engineer ...
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| Bob talks about the vast number of steel shipping containers abandoned in America's ports. Because America is no longer an exporting nation, only an importing nation, it is too expensive ...
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| David Cross from TAW shows Bob how the exterior is finished with heavy-gauge steel to bring any voids out to plane. It is then faced in a sheet-metal wrap to ...
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| Back on site, Bob joins Ray Price for a look at the ISBU's on their foundations. The total footprint of the house is 58 feet from front to back, or ...
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Carpentry, Construction & Materials
• Barrow Construction - home building and general contracting services.
• Tampa Armature Works - converting steel shipping containers into building units.
Painting & Wallpapering
• SuperTherm - insulating ceramic paints and coatings.
Real Estate
• St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services - home ownership services and education for low-income, first-time homebuyers.
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