Instant Shelters
Insulated accommodation units, easily prepared for quick installation
and use in crisis locations, are now available from US container specialists
Sea Box, Inc
East Riverton, NJ (February 8th, 2005) -- A solution to the urgent need
for habitable shelters – especially in the immediate aftermath of
a natural disaster and in war or refugee situations – has been developed
by container specials supplier Sea Box, Inc, of East Riverton, NJ.
By utilizing ISO shipping containers to build the shelters, they can be
transported quickly and efficiently - by land or sea - to the required destination.
Once on-site, the shelters can be rapidly fitted out using unskilled labor
and connected to local power supplies. In addition to being easily handled
and transported, they offer high insulation values and require minimal modification
to the container.
Two types of shelter are available from Sea Box - one based on an existing
insulated container; and a second, using its ShelterPAK kit, which is based
on a standard dry freight container.
By using an already insulated container, the only modification required
is to fit an entrance panel in the door-frame. This panel is supplied by
Sea Box ready for installation, and comes complete with a screen/exterior
door combination already fitted. The entry panel is fitted with a Utility
Panel for electrical connections and other services such as air-conditioning,
ventilation and communications. During normal use, the outer door of the
container is tied back to permit easy entrance, but the container door can
be closed and locked when it is not being used. Sea Box has several hundred
insulated containers available for immediate delivery.
The second shelter system solution offered by Sea Box involves the use of
its ShelterPAK Kit, which enables a standard dry freight intermodal container
to be transformed into an insulated, habitable, shelter at very low cost.
The kit consists of light weight, interlocking, insulated panels that “snap-in”
to the container walls and roof forming an almost “instant”
shelter. The panels consist of pre-finished metal “skins” (aluminum
or steel) sandwiching an insulated “core”. As with the insulated
containers, a ready-made entrance panel is then fitted into the door frame
of the container, and the shelter can be secured by closing the container’s
cargo doors.
Apart from a few small wood screw-holes in the timber floor of the container,
no other container modification is required. Sea Box explains that two people
with cordless screwdrivers can convert a 20ft container into an insulated
shelter in about two hours. Up to 8 ShelterPAKs can be transported inside
a single 20ft container or 16 in a 40ft box. Where necessary, the ShelterPAK
can be pre-packaged for dropping in by air.
For further information and photos, please contact:
Bob Welsch,
Senior Sales Manager,
Sea Box Inc.
Tel: (856) 303-1101
Email: sales@seabox.com
www.seabox.com
Sea Box manufactures and custom modifies all types of ISO cargo containers
and flatracks. These containers are modified into personnel shelters, shelters
for disaster victims, and shelters to support homeland security projects.
The company also designs new ISO containers for military requirements such
as the Container Roll-In/Out Platform (CROP), advanced aircraft pallets
and the TACOM container project.
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Office:
802 Industrial Highway, East Riverton, NJ 08077-1910
Phone (856) 303-1101, Fax (856) 303-1501
E-mail: sales@seabox.com
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