KGE Real Estate

In order to help with the design on our green shipping container home in Winnipeg, I have ordered the following two books:

With Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings, Paul Sawyer has written the first book dedicated to building with shipping containers and it includes examples of a number of different buildings you can create using this modular architecture.

Michelle Kaufman has worked with renowned architects Frank Gehry and Michael Graves. In prefab green, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful sustainable designs for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a “prepackaged” green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how they work together to create homes that make a difference. This will surely provide some excellent knowledge to help us get the project LEED certified.

I look forward to receiving these resources so that I can learn some of the finer details needed to make this project successful. I already know I am up against some difficult engineering work in order to make this work in the extreme climates of Winnipeg.