Sea Box Inc. Provides Instant Shelters for Use in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster, War or Refugee Situation
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 (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) February 8, 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.
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.
For further information and photos, please
contact:
Bob Welsch
Senior Sales Manager
Sea Box Inc.
Tel: (856)
303-1101
Email: e-mail protected from spam bots
www.seabox.com
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prweb206819.htm