Posts by George Runkle
Foundation Failure – The Nightmare of Your Dreamhouse on the Hill
In this video I talk about how that wonderful house on the hill can be your worst nightmare. That house that overlooks a nice wooded valley and has a wonderful walk out basement can bring you a lot of problems in the future. To illustrate, I discuss a little bit of the geology concerned when…
Read MoreLeveling Up and Stiffening a Sagging Floor
In this video, we are leveling up and stiffening a sagging floor. The floor sagged over time because the builder didn’t provide properly designed trusses. We stiffened the trusses and jacked up the floor to fix the problem, and this is how we did it. The contractor is David Moore with Structures, Inc. I found…
Read MorePressurized Waste Plumbing In A Shipping Container Building
Most of the time the waste lines in a container building work by gravity – basically on the principle that water and…well other stuff go downhill. It presents a lot of challenges in shipping containers to keep all the waste pipes at a decent slope. In this earlier video I talk about the challenges. On…
Read MorePlumbing in Shipping Containers
In this video, I go over the issues with putting plumbing systems in a shipping container building.
Read MoreShipping Container Homes – The Pain and How It’s Done
This morning a good question came in to me by e-mail. It was: Can you give me the ins and outs of purchasing a container home and having it built and buying land? Can you give me the ins and outs of purchasing a container home and having it built and buying land? How long is the…
Read MoreVacation Home in West Virginia Made From Repurposed Intermodal Containers
This is one of our latest designs. It’s an existing cabin that the owner is putting an addtion around it made from shipping containers. In this design, I’m not touching the existing structure for the most part. The only modification I am doing to the existing structure is adding a beam in the basement. The…
Read MoreHow We Design Buildings from Repurposed Shipping Containers
In this video I cover the procedure we use to design shipping container buildings. It really doesn’t matter how big or small the building is, the way it’s designed is still the same.
Read MoreHow US Building Codes Work
In college professors never explained how building codes work. Supervisors never explained Codes to me anyplace I worked. I’m going to save you trouble and layout how Building Codes work here in the US. This is of crucial importance to us as designers. This should help if you are working from another country, or just…
Read MoreArt2Park Intermodal Container and Steel Structure in Tampa, Florida
This is a project we are wrapping up on. It should begin construction around October 2021. It’s a combination container structure and structural steel, with a concrete deck for the second floor. It’s a creative combination of different types of structure (concrete, masonry, steel, containers) to provide an attractive design. The containers from my standpoint…
Read MoreBetter Travel for the Road Warrior – Easing the Agony
In the past year, many of us have had to restrict our travel, but it still is a fact of life for many of us. It’s hard to accomplish everything over Zoom, so I found business travel to be a necessity. Even in the worst of the epidemic, I did have to make one trip…
Read More