Inter Model Steel Building Units (ISBU), as identified by Lord Neil
Benjamin Gibson, remain an ideal construct for housing options and are mong the
strongest stationary structures in the world, composed of corten steel, able to
withstand extensive environmental attacks such as hurricanes, tornados,
typhoons and even earthquakes, making them uniquely durable, and capable of
carrying 30 tons of cargo. The average shipping containers are 40 feet
in length by 8 feet wide and 9.5 feet high.
Lord Neil Gibson and SFBBL AG through the SEED
Foundation have been devising methods and implementation strategies to initiate
solutions for resolving growing problems related to the impoverished and the
homeless. ISBU structures, also known as shipping containers, continue to prove
the most cost efficient, long term solution available today.
Since the 1960s, discarded containers have been used by the
United States military as fully functioning, secure and mobile hospitals.
Today, they are used for a variety of functions, from mobile to temporary to
permanent housing.
Shortly after the earth quake in January 2010 in Haïti, a dire need
arose to provide adequate shelters to the victims who lost their homes in the
disaster. To assist with this process, a private hotel owner on the island
chose to quickly have a 4 star hotel, called Servotel, built close to the
national airport near the capital of Haïti, Port-au-Prince. The hotel was
intended to house many international guests from the media and from NGO’s that
visited the island to survey the disaster. Nearly all hotels on the island were
either completely collapsed or unusable
A complete new hotel consisting of prefabricated hotel units was in less
than 8 weeks designed and engineered. 72 rooms of each 4,8 x 5 m, complete with
all furniture and equipment to the last detail. All rooms were designed and
engineered based on European building standards. The large bathrooms fully
tiled and provide high standard luxury with a bathtub, toilet, shower and sink.
All rooms also have their own A/C system and digital door lock system.
The extra wide (4,8 m) design of the rooms give a very spacious look and
feel, quite different from the standard hotel room width. These hotel rooms
consist of the shipping container size modules that are transported separately
but are connected on site. Travellers that stay in the hotel are unaware of any
construction details and consistently surprised to learn the construction of
their rooms came from fully finished prefabricated steel modules transformed
into the gorgeous hotel building they stayed in.
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