The ICC Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), a member of the International Code Council Family of Companies, recently issued three evaluation reports that help expand use of shipping containers as building ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

The International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute struck a deal to collaborate on new guidelines for using shipping containers as buildings or as building components. The two ...

Cargo containers, long a staple of international trade, are designed to be affordable, sturdy and watertight. So it's no surprise that for decades they've been used by the military, the needy — or ...

Those who live in Yakima might remember Mark Needham, a Yakima resident who drove around the city last year and collected pictures of 240 shipping containers that “violated” city building code because ...

Millions — perhaps tens of millions — of shipping containers are sitting empty at ports all over the world. And they've been a treasure trove for architects Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. "We found ...

Code enforcement and permitting should be a straight-forward, cut-and-dried process in Yakima, or any municipality. In most cases, if you want to cut — or, more likely, add — something, assume you’ll ...

The Eagle’s Dare, a nightclub on Third Street, is one step closer to keeping its cargo container functional as a secondary bar to serve drinks from during large events. On April ...