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“Pack 'em, rack 'em and stack 'em”: The appropriateness of the use and reuse of shipping containers for prison accommodation

Construction Economics and Building

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Title “Pack 'em, rack 'em and stack 'em”: The appropriateness of the use and reuse of shipping containers for prison accommodation
 
Creator Grant, Elizabeth Maree
 
Subject architecture: Indigenous Studies: Construction: Penal Studies
prison construction, shipping containers, prison architecture, material reuse, building methods.
Prison Architecture
 
Description Shipping containers are gaining increasing recognition for their apparent durability, adaptability, light weight, ‘low cost' and ease of stacking, spurring a  trend that has resulted in shipping container sculpture, homes, housing, hotels, and museums. The use of prefabricated, pre-manufactured and prototype building methods for prison construction has grown considerably as some jurisdictions attempt to deal with the construction of prisons with speed and economy. In the last three years, shipping containers have been used in the prison sector as a way of managing burgeoning prison populations. Recent prison developments in both Australia and New Zealand where shipping containers have been employed for prisoner housing are of considerable interest. In this article, the financial, functional, structural, technical, environmental and architectonic impacts of this approach are discussed.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
Contributor N/A
 
Date 2013-06-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3269
10.5130/AJCEB.v13i2.3269
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 13, No 2 (2013): AJCEB; 35-44
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/3269/3491
 
Coverage Australia
2000 - 2013
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Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Elizabeth Maree Grant
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