Utilities container

A pre-fabricated utilities apparatus, for use in association with a building, wherein the apparatus includes:

• a room-structure, comprising walls which have the general configuration of a room;
• a potable-water-unit, which is located inside the room-structure;
• a potable-water-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring potable water from the supply of potable water to the building;
• a water-heater-unit, which is located inside the room-structure, for heating a portion of the potable water;
• a hot-potable-water-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring heated potable water from the water-heater-unit to the building;
• a used-potable-water-recycling-unit, which is located inside the room-structure;
• a used-potable-water-return-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring used potable water from the building to the used-potable-water-recycling-unit;
• a recycled-water-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring recycled water from the used-potable-water-recycling-unit to the building;
• a wastewater-treatment-unit, which is located inside the room-structure;
• a wastewater-return-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for returning wastewater (sewage) from the building into the wastewater-treatment-unit;
• a space-heater-unit, which is located inside the room-structure, for heating a space-heater-fluid;
• a space-heater-fluid-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring heated space-heater-fluid from the space-heater-unit into the building;
• an operable electricity-supply-unit, which is located inside the room-structure, and which gives off heat when operated;
• an electricity port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring electricity from the electricity-supply-unit into the building;
• a co-generation plant, which is located inside the room-structure, and which includes a heat-transfer-medium, and the co-generation-plant is so arranged that the heat given off by the electricity-supply-means is effective to heat the heat-transfer-medium, which is effective in supply heat to one of the hot-water-heater-or the space-heater-unit;
• and wherein:
• the walls of the room-structure are well insulated thermally;
• the apparatus includes means for fastening the said units and ports physically in and to the room-structure;
• the room-structure is physically self-supporting, to the extent that the room-structure, and the units and ports fastened physically therein, can be bodily picked up and transported as an integrated whole unit;
• the room-structure is of such size and weight that the room-structure, with the said units and ports fastened therein, can be transported by truck as an integrated whole unit.

A pre-fabricated utilities apparatus, for use in association with a habitable building, wherein:

• the apparatus includes a room-structure, comprising walls which have the general configuration of a room;
• the apparatus includes a first-utility-plant, which is located inside the room-structure;
• the first-utility-plant comprises a means for processing a first-medium;
• the apparatus includes a first-utility-port, which is located in one of the walls of the room-structure, for transferring the first-medium between the first-utility-plant and the building;
• the apparatus includes means for fastening the plant and port physically in and to the room-structure;
• the room-structure is physically self-supporting, to the extent that the room-structure, and the plants and ports fastened physically therein, can be bodily picked up and transported as an integrated whole unit;
• the room-structure is of such size and weight that the room-structure, with the aforesaid plants and ports fastened therein, can be transported by truck as an integrated whole unit;
• the walls of the room-structure include a floor, a roof, and four side-walls;
• the walls are so arranged that the room-structure, when installed in operational association with a building, is substantially enclosed;
• the room-structure includes a false-floor;
• the false-floor lies in the room-structure above the floor, therby creating a space of height h between the floor and the false-floor;
• the apparatus includes a water tank;
• the water tank is of a smaller height than the height h, and the water tank lies in the space of height h between the floor and the false-floor;
• the water tank is structurally integrated into the room-structure, whereby the presence of the water tank between the floor and the false-floor, within the space of height h, serves to enhance the structural strength and rigidity of the room-structure.