Sea Box, Inc. welder Ivan Montalban grinds a steel container being produced in East Riverton.
Building a home out of a metal box may seem like a peculiar idea to some, but to Kent Pipes it's a vision in green.
Pipes, president and CEO of The Affordable Homes Group in Mount Holly, plans to build homes and homeless shelters out of the 8-by-40-foot ISO heavy-gauge steel shipping containers that can be frequently seen stacked up at American ports. The cost would be around $20,000 and they would come with everything a normal home comes with -- separate rooms, working plumbing, deck space and more.
Pipes attended a Mount Holly planning board meeting on Monday to obtain final approval for a house ...