A couple of weeks ago we reported on companies using recycled shipping containers to develop homes. Travelodge has taken it a step further by building an entire hotel in Uxbridge, England out of recycled shipping containers. Not only is Travelodge doing the environment a favor by reducing their material usage by 70%, but they are reducing their construction costs by almost 20 million dollars per hotel. The hotel construction time is reduced by 40-60% and the construction crew doesn’t require nearly as much specialized skilled labor which greatly reduces overall construction costs. Verbus Sytems is the construction company behind Travelodge’s environmentaly friendly new concept. The amazing part is that the interior and exterior of the hotel look identical to other conventional Travelodge hotels.
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on Sep 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I saw this about a month ago. I really love seeing innovative construction techniques and I don’t think this trend is going away.
on Sep 26th, 2008 at 10:27 am
It still floors me that houses and building can be built out of containers and look and feel good on the interiors…I mean, the containers are all the same size it would seem that creating unusual spaces would be a problem.