Tag: retail

  • IKEA reveals plans for its latest solar installation

    Forward-thinking companies aren’t adding solar to their rooftops just for the financial payback — they are doing it to make a statement. (Do you know which retailer came out on top for solar capacity this year?).  IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, is one such company and announced plansRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SOAK in a Pop-Up Spa Repurposed from Reclaimed Shipping Containers

    San Francisco startup, SOAK, inspired by Amsterdam saunas and dubbed, “an urban bathhouse for healthy hedonists,” has turned shipping containers into a spa that can be transported to any urban location. Taking measures to “minimize its hedonistic impact,” the spa can operate entirely off the grid or return excess power to the grid. It bears…

  • Mixed Use Shipping Container Structure to be A First in St. Louis

    Shortly after returning from Italy, where he was project manger on several villa rehabilitations, to St. Louis, Missouri, developer Patrick Barnidge has started  his own firm, Delsa Development, under which he has proposed a mixed-use container structure. To be built on a Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) city-owned lot in the Grove area of Forest Park…