The design and the construction of the frame out of a shipping container home.
The framing out of the shipping container is important if you plan on installing wallboard on the interior. If not then you will not need to frame out the container home. The internal framing is what you will be drilling into, through the wallboard, during installation. With out the frame out then you would be drilling directly into and through the shipping container, therefore creating a few thousand holes. Not a good idea.
We have built many units mostly offices and just one container home, where we did not need to frame out the interior. This was because the client did not want wallboard and or insulation in the shipping container home. We framed out our container homes with steel beams. We use a thin type of metal in which we weld to the insides. We use this technique because of the humidity, rain and bugs in Costa Rica. We feel that the tropical climate justifies the use of metal strips between the fibrolite and the steel-shipping container vs. wood.
Remember the following:
The cutouts and removal of steel from the shipping container will need to be re-supported if the size is very large and you plan on using the roof to stack another shipping container or create a roof top deck. The general rule of thumb for the structural engineering on the removal of walls for a shipping container is that the weight of the cut out must be matched with the weight of the support beams/poles.
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