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Structural insulating panels (also known as SIPs, stress skin panels, or foam core panels) are used for exterior wall, roof, and floor applications in residential and light commercial construction.


Stress-skin panels provide a fast efficient system for enclosing your timber frame. Foam-core panels wrap the entire frame with a continuous blanket of insulation, creating an extremely energy-efficient wall and roof system. Panels eliminate the need for time-consuming cutting and fitting of drywall or exterior walls. Roof panel joints are typically concealed behind rafters or purlins, eliminating the need for taping the ceiling.

In a panelized structure the load or weight of the structure is carried in the OSB skins, which is why structural insulated panels are also called "stress-skin" panels. This type of construction is much stronger than frame construction. Stress skin panels can be thought of as I-beam construction, with the foam acting as the webbing in an I-beam. Comprehensive engineering tests confirm the structural strength of panelized construction as much stronger than frame construction.

For this reason, no studs or framing members are necessary in a structural insulated panel home. Wood has a much lower R value than any type of insulation. Studs in a frame home are thermal breaks; places where heat and cold can transfer through the structure more easily.

Studs are not necessary in our panel homes, which means the walls and roof have a solid band of insulation without thermal breaks. This increases the "effective" R-value of our homes.

Once your design is completed and plans are drawn, the panels are custom fabricated for your home. Window and door openings are cut during fabrication with computer precision. The panels are then numbered for easy assembly and trucked to your new home site anywhere in the continental US or Canada.