Shipping container hotel proposed for Bruderheim, Alta.

Bruderheim is looking at an unusual solution to shortage of accommodations for oilfield workers a hotel that can be shipped to the town, east of Edmonton, one container unit at a time.

"There's only one other hotel like this in Canada that I'm aware of and from what I'm hearing it's a trendy, new, kind of funkycool design," said Mayor Karl Hauch.

That hotel, which happens to bethe largest one in North America, is a 60-room Days Innin northern Ontario, built byCalgary-based companyLadacor.

The community is desperately short of hotel spaceto accommodatethe high turnover ofworkers,Hauchsaid.

"There are turnarounds constantly at these big plants. For example, our campground in townfor the last couple of years has been packed with people and we've been actually putting money into our campground to open more full-service sites because of the demand."

The Bruderheimhotel, if approved, would have to be up to code and able to accommodate Alberta's frigid winter weather.

Residents will have a chance to learn more about the proposed hotel at an open house beginningat 6 p.m.