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Last week I was on a ferry on the Brisbane River and felt like seafood. So I did a web search for a restaurant near the next terminal,  Nort...

Purpose built Quarantine Centers are being constructed in Australia. I suggest that these be, in the main, low tech, self serve facilities. ...

At the Canberra Innovation Network tonight an executive from a local renewable power start-up mentioned that there was a proposal to export...

The ‘ Westside @ Acton Park ’ is a shipping container building in Canberra's Acton Park, designed by Cox Architecture and Murtagh Bond E...

In " Don't abandon ship! How to salvage a mega-vessel " (New Scientist, 26 November 2013), Will Gray describes the problems w...

One of the mailing lists I am on was asked about using ISO Shipping Containers for storing paper records. This sounded unlikely, but a web ...

The Canberra Lab , a collective of Canberra architects, has built a transoportable Cocktail Bar in a shipping container . The unit is chee...

The USA's two designs of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) look very different. The Freedom class is a monohull ship, whereas the Independenc...

Greetings from Brindabella Business Park next to Canberra Airport, where Rittal are showing their " Rittal Data Centre Container ...

Flat-pack furniture company also sells prefabricated homes. Ikea is building "Strand East" with 1,200 new homes on 10.5 hectare si...

French hotel chain Accor have equipped a Noveltel hotel room with Micrsoft Kinect to create the " Hotel Room of the Future " until...

According to Defence Technology International, one solution to the Australian military's lack of transport ships is a 102 meter trimara...

Greetings from Data Centre Strategics in Sydney. I am speaking at the conference on Green ICT along with Young Choon Lee from University ...

The Australian National University has announced it will build 1023 new units for students over the next two years, with funding from the N...

With the " Tactical Expandable Maritime Platform " (TEMP) the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is researching ...

New Zealand Department of Corrections is building prison cells from modified shipping containers . A photograph of the first unit made from...

Modularised shipping container apartments will be delivered to the Australian National University in Canberra, 24 and 31 May 2010.These are...

The standard shipping container might prove to be the key technology for defence in the next few decades. Shipping containers are being used...

Architects tamassociati have designed Salam Centre from shipping containers in Soba, Khartoum, Sudan. This uses 90 20 foot containers and ...

The OfficePod looks an appealing design. This is a small prefabricated transportable office, intended to be placed in the backyard of a fam...