NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – About 20 million freight containers are used to transport cargo around the world. Now, a company based in Brooklyn Heights is giving new life to old steel across the country.

What is completely constructed of steel, reinforced with corrugated steel walls, able to withstand winds up to 140 mph, and can make a comfortable living space for the survivors of the Haitian ...

CALDWELL — In a warehouse just outside downtown Caldwell, old, rusted shipping containers are being converted into one possible solution to today's affordable housing crisis — modular homes. The ...

A North Charleston-based company that makes steel shipping containers for the military has changed hands. Gichner Systems Group Inc. of Dallastown, Pa., said Monday that it acquired Charleston Marine ...

Around 9 a.m. Thursday, Allix Ice, 22, a senior dietetics and nutrition major, stepped into a steel shipping container and began her duties. She confirmed that the thermostat was at 60 degrees and ...

Houses and offices made from shipping containers are being manufactured in South Mississippi. Brittany Kahler is the chief executive officer of a company that is selling and manufacturing containers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For the past year, residents around Zuni Park in northwest Denver have watched a curious building go up, something that looks like it should be sitting in a ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian design duo has begun re-purposing old steel shipping containers, transforming them into living spaces, shops and restaurants in an effort to introduce residents of ...

Ah, the unassuming shipping container. It's really nothing more than a big steel box with a couple of doors. At any given time, millions of containers are piled on ships plying the world's waterways.

Taco Bell is an unintentional architectural icon. The fast-food chain’s aging white brick buildings from the 1970s and ’80s are unmistakable, even decades later, when so many have been inhabited by ...