Accessory dwelling units (ADU)
Are shipping container houses environmentally friendly & good or bad to live in?
...recycled one way or another.
Metal is highly polluting and energy-intensive to extract and manufacture, so once we have it we are best to put it to good use. When used to form a structure, the carbon footprint and embodied energy of metal is far worse than that of wood.
From a green building materials standpoint, mater...
