The wave of companies fabricating used shipping containers into modern eco-friendly houses seems likely to build for many years before cresting.

We’ve previously highlighted various ways these re-purposed steel boxes are being touted as portable affordable prefab housing in Shipping Out, Ship Shape, Talk About A Revolution, Modular Cities, Venezia, and Contained Excitement.

Now a design build firm from California called IC Green is joining in.

IC Green’s containers are similarly transported by truck to the site and craned (or forked) into place. But all of their homes come fitted with green roofs to improve sound insulation, reduce heating and cooling needs, and cutback storm water runoff.

The homes from IC Green also come fitted with a radiant floor system, use FSC certified wood, and VOC free paint. As an option, geo thermal and solar systems can be integrated for domestic warm water and electricity.

As we’ve mentioned before, if modified correctly the end-use product you live in will only faintly resemble the common unmodified shipping container. Read post in Inhabitat.