Many container houses are available as prefabricated modular homes, making construction time shorter. Most of the building code inspections are done at the factory, which makes things simpler and quicker. Or if you are designing a custom house or building a do-it-yourself project, the container gives you a fun prebuilt structure to work with.

A worldwide system exists for moving containers around. Once they reach your site, they are relatively simple to set in place on a prepared foundation.

Most of the work is completed on a factory floor for a fixed price. Delivery to the site, site preparation, foundation, assembly and utility connections are the only variable costs. That said, container houses are not always less expensive. Estimates vary, and some put the savings at 5-10%, depending on what you’re comparing against.

The environmental appeal of a container house is the idea that you are re-using a leftover product of the shipping industry to make a home. This can be a good thing, but as we will see, it’s not always true or the best thing.

Some of the advantages, like short construction time and predictable pricing, are the same for all prefabricated and modular houses, not just those made with shipping containers. But container houses benefit uniquely from the worldwide infrastructure built to move shipping containers. Even container house skeptics admit they can be useful where local building expertise is lacking or for emergency shelters that can be moved easily. In these scenarios, the versatility of container transport is a huge advantage.

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