How Customized Containers Found New Purpose During COVID

COVID negatively impacted most industries creating downward economic trends around the world. However, it has also affected some industries in very surprising ways. For example, the shipping container industry has been turned upside down. As shipments to shut down retailers and manufacturers led to backups at global ports, demand for shipping containers rose. Whether it was for shipping purposes or storage, the container was suddenly a hot commodity.

Adding to the demand was the trend to customize and repurpose containers for different uses from offices to homes, and specialty storage units to classrooms. The concept behind transformed shipping containers demonstrated the potential containers had to resolve many challenges posed by COVID. As a result, the need for new ideas to suit the needs of a world in crisis, several new emergency purposes for shipping containers Calgary have developed. Here’s how.

Hospitals

Shipping containers are perfectly built to provide temporary, or even permanent additions to hospitals. This includes space for more beds in intensive care units, operating rooms, and patient rooms for those recovering from the virus. The containers can be customized and delivered to hospital parking lots or other available spaces. This allows health care workers to manage the growing demand placed on hospitals to find available space for patient care.

Long Term Care

Customized spaces using shipping containers can be delivered to long-term care facilities in crisis situations due to outbreaks. The transformed shipping containers offer scalable, safe, living spaces to help separate contagious residents. Long-term care homes can quickly provide a deployable option for comfortable resident rooms.

Schools

A major challenge for schools is providing safe air filtration. Using shipping containers for classrooms allows schools to provide a comfortable, safe temperature-controlled classroom with HEPA filtered, pressurized rooms where air can be purified at the recommended rates more cost-effectively.

COVID Testing and Vaccination Sites

The demand for mobile health care to respond quickly to hot spots throughout major cities and communities calls for customized units like shipping containers. They are the ideal solution for COVID testing and vaccination sites, not to mention as storage solutions Calgary sites can use for temperature-controlled vaccine storage and transportation.

Correctional Facilities

Outbreaks in correctional facilities can also be contained with safe and secure shipping container isolation units. Inmates can be moved to temporary cells to protect others from the risk of spread.

School Dorms

Universities and colleges can also create additional dorm space for confirmed cases of COVID. Temperature-controlled, comfortable transformed shipping containers can be delivered on campus allowing students to recover from their symptoms and then return to their dorms and classes. This not only protects the school communities but also helps contain the spread caused by students who return home.

The storage containers Calgary can use offer an affordable, mobile space. They can be converted to meet the changing needs of a community trying to manage the spread of the virus. Innovative building techniques in hand with a creative approach to creating scalable spaces have helped find new potential for the humble converted shipping container.