Container Houses

This video of shipping container house construction in Atlanta. It was the second one we designed in the City. It’s located in Old Fourth Ward, and is a very simple house, but it looks good. It was built in 2008. These videos show its construction when it was fairly close to completion. This is a…

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When we do structural investigations of old buildings, we find surprises.  However, I have never seen anything like this.  We have here an unusual find in an old house. This was an old “shotgun” type house in West Atlanta that was being renovated.  We went to the site to make structural recommendations.  The house looked…

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University Lofts was a project located in downtown Binghamton, NY. Originally, a department store was on the site, and the facade was left in place. There was a serious fire inside of the building, so the owner tore out the interior. To rebuild it, the owner decided to use cold formed steel construction. The contractor…

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SeaCon Container Apartments, Washington DC

The Architect on this project was Travis Price Architects, and we (Runkle Consulting, Inc) were the Structural Engineers. The project is a three story apartment building built for student housing near Catholic University. It was challenging for us because it was such a short time frame. We started design in March, and the project was…

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