If you are building outside of the city’s zoning code or in an unregulated zone then you’re in luck.
This stage is predominantly focused on finalizing your design and getting your building permit approved, and is the longest stage of your build.Īs you can see, the two longest activities here are gaining local structural engineering approval and acquiring building permits.
Local structural engineering approval (10-15 days)įor the second stage of the shipping container home construction timetable, we’ve allocated 9-12 weeks. Finalize home design and plans (10 days). Finalize Design and Construction Approval In doing so, you can significantly increase the cost and complexity of the build. One quick point to consider when designing your home: try not to make too many cuts and modifications to your shipping containers. The choice will almost certainly depend on whether or not you need a building permit. You can either design the home yourself or with an architect and structural engineer. Once you’ve figured out how much money you have to spend on your home, you can start designing it. You need to have a clear idea of your budget before you move forward. You can see in the schedule that designing your home comes after you’ve established your finances. The largest piece of the planning stage is developing your home design. It’s difficult for us to give you guidance on this, as it could take days or months depending on both your personal criteria and the laws for transferring property in your area. If you don’t, you need to add this to your timeline. This is because we’re assuming you already have land. If you take a closer look at the planning phase, you will also notice that we haven’t included a stage to find and purchase land. You can see that in the construction timeline, we’ve outlined approximately six weeks for the planning stage.Īs you already know, planning is the most important phase of the project and if you get this stage wrong it can cost you a significant amount of money in the later stages of your build. Assemble site-specific information and ordinances (3 days). Develop initial home plan/design (20 days). So use our examples but tailor them to your own build. It’s important to state that while not every shipping container home will be the same, they will all share similar characteristics. 
Many readers have asked us for this, so we’re excited to share the outline for a shipping container home project timeline. While there are many generic construction timelines available online, to our knowledge, there aren’t any specifically created for shipping container homes. A construction timeline or schedule is used to visualize all of the activities which need to take place throughout the process of building a home.
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