廢舊集裝箱變身星巴克得來速

????星巴克（Starbucks）正在美國一些城市積極推廣由廢舊海運集裝箱改造而成的“得來速”門店，而最新的一站則是鹽湖城。上圖這個面積386平方英尺的零售店計劃于周一開業。

????據《財富》雜志（Fortune）5月份報道，這種集裝箱咖啡店模式源于星巴克進一步推廣得來速門店的計劃。這家咖啡連鎖店公司未來5年計劃新開1,500家店鋪，其中大約900家（60%）將是這種“駕車駛入”咖啡店。預計這些店有相當一部分將由海運集裝箱改造而成。

????建筑中使用海運集裝箱并不新奇，但星巴克投身其中，表明使用集裝箱作為建筑單元已經發展到了一個新的層面。

????“集裝箱不再是一時的流行，”SG Blocks董事長兼CEO保羅?高爾文表示?！八殉蔀橐环N主流建筑材料?！?/p>

????高爾文的公司是星巴克這一計劃的合作伙伴之一，它的全部業務就是改造舊集裝箱用于建筑。高爾文表示，他正在聽到越來越多像星巴克這樣的藍籌公司對使用海運集裝箱感興趣。此舉的環保意義很具吸引力，把這些退役集裝箱用于建筑，能將它們從廢棄物中拯救出來。

????另外，SG Blocks正在紐約57號碼頭實施一個項目，計劃將456個海運集裝箱放在這個具有歷史意義的碼頭上，為零售店入駐提供場地。（財富中文網）

????Salt Lake City is the latest addition to the growing list of cities with a Starbucks drive-through constructed out of old shipping containers. The 386-square-foot store pictured here is scheduled to open today.

????As Fortune reported in May, the container-as-coffee shop model is part of Starbucks' push further into drive-throughs. About 900, or 60%, of the 1,500 new U.S. stores that the coffee company has planned for the next five years will be drive-throughs. Expect a good portion of those to be made from shipping containers.

????There's nothing new about using shipping containers in construction, but the fact that Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) has gotten into the game signals that the use of the container as a building block has reached a new level.

????"The container is no longer a fad," says SG Blocks (SGBX) chairman and CEO Paul Galvin. "It's a mainstream instrument of construction."

????Galvin's company is one of Starbucks' partners on the endeavor and has made a whole business out of repurposing old containers for construction. Galvin says he's hearing more and more from blue-chip companies like Starbucks who are interested in using shipping containers. The fact that they're green is a big draw—using the retired containers for construction takes them out of the waste stream.

????SG Blocks also is working on a project at Pier 57 in New York, where it will slide 456 shipping containers into the historic pier to house retail outlets.