Posted by Brian Quick on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 @ 08:29 AM
It's coming close to Spring time and we wanted to put an offer out on our blog to see if there is any response from the blog alone.
If you are reading this, and you are interested in renting a storage container, mention the Blog promotion and get one month free rental. Minimum 3 month rental term. Delivery and tax not included.
Rent for 2 months and get the 3rd free.
This promotion will run for March only.
Thanks for reading the Mini Warehousing blog!
Posted by Brian Quick on Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 08:10 AM
Mini Warehousing is proud to announce a charity project called Containers 2 Clinics. The project involves the use of storage containers being retrofit into a clinic where 3rd would nations can deploy them in remote areas to accomodate women and children getting quality healthcare in their community.
The link to their website: http://www.containers2clinics.org/
Containers to Clinics (C2C) is a non-profit, charitable initiative that seeks to improve the health of women and children by providing access to primary healthcare through networks of converted shipping container clinics.
Clinics are staffed by local health professionals in-country. C2C's approach to rural medical care is designed to strengthen the entire healthcare system of a country from the bottom up by building capacity to treat illness locally. C2C clinics focus on improving the lives of women and children through vaccinations, safe pregnancy and delivery, and health education. C2C's model allows for standard design and operations and for replication across regions.
The project is headed up by the founder Elizabeth Sheehan who has worked around the world in humanitarian efforts to increase the availability of healthcare to developing nations.
Mini Warehousing is proud to have been a part of this project. The clinics will be used to help some of the many people who are dying due to easily preventable diseases.
Recent WHO statistics were released which exposed the human cost to this lack of Medical care:
"Every day 1500 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications and just under twenty-five thousand children under the age of five die from diarrhea, pneumonia, and other preventable diseases."
We wish Containers 2 Clinics the best possible future as they tackle this great humanitarian effort.
Posted by Brian Quick on Thu, Oct 01, 2009 @ 08:30 AM
Containers for houses or offices have been quite the hot topic at Mini Warehousing. Recently, we have partnered with Stack Design Build, http://www.stackdb.com/harris.html in a project named Box Office 460. http://www.boxoffice460.com/
It's quite a great design that incorporates over 32 storage containers made into an environmentally friendly, energy efficient office building. There will be approximately 12 office/studio spaces available for lease.
Watch the timelaps video here:
This project and others like it have begun gaining ground speed. The change in thought needed to think with buildable modules is drastic from standard "stick built" structures. Stack Design Build and Mini Warehousing worked for months on issues that would or could come up with different methods of design ideas.
As in a lot of "Green" projects and practices, the costs savings aren't dramatic if any at all. Yet the gain is realized in natural resource savings and our earth's conservation.
Keep an Eye on Mini Warehousing, Inc.....More exciting projects coming!
See below:
By building The Box Office, 94 tons of upcycled steel will be put back into productive use.
This project will be a model of a small, green (energy-efficient, sustainable) building, using 25% less energy than a conventional new office building. The main goal of the design team was to engineer a well-insulated building, utilizing high performing windows and implement the most efficient HVAC system feasible for the project.
This building will be all-electric with no direct use of fossil fuels. All heating and cooling will be with small, decentralized, high efficiency air-to-air heat pumps. Also, typical lighting densities will be 0.6 watts/sf. One reason for the reduced load is the projects implementation of dual-source lighting; a combination of overhead lighting with daylight response sensors that measure the natural day light and task lighting. The site will reduce stormwater run-off into the combined storm sewer by 67% through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phyto-remediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water. The Box Office will have comfortable indoor air quality due to the use of environmentally-friendly interior finishes (non-petroleum-based insulation, low VOC products and no products with formaldehyde, for example), filtered exterior air, and accessible operable windows.
Tenants will be able to take advantage of green lease conditions that will provide economic incentives to tenants to maximize energy performance of the green building.
Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 @ 07:24 PM
Mini Warehousing has partnered with Smart Pack Solutions to help our customers with their boxes and packaging supplies.
Click on our link Click here for boxes, to get your boxes, tape and bubble wrap shipped in one day to your home. No shipping charges and overnight shipping.
We help with kits for rooms that will help you figure out your needs for moving supplies. We also sell specialty boxes for garments and markers for labeling the boxes.
Packing your contents carefully and in an organized fashion will help with the packing and unpacking process. Hopefully, making the operation as pain free as possible. (We know that is not possible)
Please feel free to contact us by calling us at 800-548-5408 should you have any questions.
Click here to email us for more information
Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, Jul 08, 2009 @ 07:19 PM
Mini Warehousing has updated our website to help our customers with finding the information that they need most. Most important was to make the site easy to navigate, while being easy to load for any speed internet connection.
We aren't perfect, so if there is something about the site that isn't working, or you don't like, can you please send us an email to info@miniwarehousing.com so we can correct this problem.
Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to making your experience with Mini Warehousing as easy as possible.