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$8,000 lockable building-in-a-box assembles in 11 minutes, sleeps 8
New Atlas ^ | JULY 8, 2024 | Mike Hanlon

Posted on 07/09/2024 5:59:31 AM PDT by Red Badger

CMAX Systems' building-in-a-box before it becomes a building (image widened using AI)CMAX Systems

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You could view it as a solid-floored uber-tent or an easily relocatable temporary building – but you could also call it a super-minimal tiny home for US$8,000. This remarkable building-in-a-box was designed for housing refugees, but it's now on sale. CMAX Systems' building-in-a-box seems almost too good to be true. It offers a solid-floored, robust, habitable structure, 19 ft long by 7.4 ft wide (5.8 x 2.25 m) with a ceiling height of 7.2 ft (2.2 m), so only a handful of pro basketball players would brush their heads on the ceiling.

The CMAX System's most transformative super power though, is its ability to fold into a manageable 330-lb (150-kg) unit that can easily be transported on the back of a pickup or a trailer, then set down more or less anywhere, raised off the ground and leveled out with its adjustable legs and ready to go within about 10 minutes, using two people and no special tools. You could look at it as a super-robust, solid-floor, eight-person tent that won't blow away in a storm, or as an easily relocatable temporary building.

The rigid central structure of the unit enables the CMAX (at additional cost) to mount solar panels, air-conditioning and/or a water treatment unit. It also gives it a lockable door – although to be fair, security-wise it's only really locked until somebody wanders up with a knife and makes a new door of their own.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: buildinginabox; cmax; habitat; housing; mobile
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yeah...there is a reason you do NOT feed bears....idiots!


21 posted on 07/09/2024 7:01:56 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the goo"d times when people starved)
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To: Red Badger

. This remarkable building-in-a-box was designed for housing refugees,


They want a first class hotel with room service.........................


22 posted on 07/09/2024 7:05:00 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Doubles as a casket for 8.


23 posted on 07/09/2024 7:10:07 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Red Badger

It’s a dang tent.


24 posted on 07/09/2024 7:18:37 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: The Louiswu

“Interment” = burial. Perhaps your assistive spelling should have pointed you to “internment” which means to confine, usually for political or military purposes.


25 posted on 07/09/2024 7:25:33 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: Disambiguator
It’s a pop-up tent trailer with no wheels.

Yeah, it's a tent trailer minus the trailer. There's nothing new or innovative here.

26 posted on 07/09/2024 8:14:44 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Red Badger

It’s a folding tent. I don’t really consider a tent a “building.”


27 posted on 07/09/2024 8:59:49 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: The Louiswu

They look barely soda-straw proof.


28 posted on 07/09/2024 10:37:16 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: dljordan

A refugee wouldn’t be caught dead in one of those things. I remember they were complaining about the accommodations and food when they were put in is some NYC hotels.


29 posted on 07/09/2024 10:43:12 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I'd like to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.)
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To: Red Badger

Rounded up in the reeducation camps...


30 posted on 07/09/2024 11:13:56 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Red Badger

Glorified camping tent.


31 posted on 07/09/2024 1:07:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Red Badger

My biggest concern is its ability to handle wind. I hope it has ropes and stakes.


32 posted on 07/09/2024 1:22:32 PM PDT by Doctor Congo
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