"erect containers" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe containers that have been assembled or set up in an upright position. It can be used in various contexts, such as in gardening, construction, or storage. Example: The workers spent the morning erecting containers to hold the newly delivered rocks for the garden landscaping project.
While the tower was repaired, the controllers worked out of makeshift quarters erected atop cargo containers on a hill overlooking the runways.
Candidates with her profile routinely ended up in makeshift offices erected inside cargo containers in the countryside, where the Chinese government was building highways, railway tracks, refineries, and power plants.
At Fort Hood, the Army erected walls of gray containers around the headquarters of III Corps in advance of a memorial service Tuesday for the 13 people killed when, the authorities say, Major Hasan opened fire in a center where soldiers get vaccinated before being sent abroad.
That aim seemed to be strengthening Saturday as Serbs in northern Kosovo erected a metal container and hung Serbian flags on electrical posts on a main road between Zubin Potok, a Serbian town, and Mitrovica, a city divided between ethnic Albanians and Serbs.
The artist has erected a glass-walled container in the center of a popular Berlin square and will live in this 2.5 by 14-meter space for 15 days.
Rima and her family were thrilled to hear that a man named Fadi Chamieh, who runs a local NGO called the Humanitarian Association Collaboration, had found them some land on which he was erecting a caravan-style camp made of bricks, plastic containers, and corrugated metal.
Considering the paucity of time that the team had to unpack the 85 container loads of equipment, set up the stage and erect the lighting rigs and screen towers, there were remarkably few glitches.
In Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, pro-Aristide forces were trying on Wednesday to shore up control, erecting burning barricades and blocking main traffic routes with concrete tank traps and shipping containers.
A cement block wall was in the process of being erected around the compound as a defense against a car bomb; a ring of shipping containers surrounded the parking lot to protect the building and its staff.
She erected double fences in other fields, ran an electric fence around buildings and paid for tall water containers for cattle to drink out of reach of badgers to try to avoid bovine TB spreading to their cattle.
