SIPs are as well made in extended sizes up to 8 ft by 24 ft so assembly on-site is faster, framing crews are more successful, and the project is “dried-in” sooner. That means different subcontractors can get a head start on their sandwich panel custom tasks they need to do. Sips are customizable creatures that reflect your own style. Build yours and play with your friends? SIPs are pre-formed building components that are assembled into structures on building sites. The panels consist of rigid insulating foam laminated ‘tween two sheets of Oriented Strand Board.

SIPs are engineered laminated panels with solid foam cores and structural sheathing on each side. The most common types of sheathing or skins materials are oriented strand board (OSB) and plywood. SIPS are fundamentally a structural sandwich composed of two layers of OSB with insulating foam on the inside and can be used for clean room panel. The wood used for manufacturing OSB comes from fast growth trees that can be planted and reaped in just a few years.

SIPs are a revolutionary material that can help resolve numerous of the new issues we face in designing and creating today’s built environment. Fresh thinking must come along with this new material. SIPs are used as floors, elevator ceiling panels, walls and roofs on all types of building across North America and are sent around the globe for use on the widest variety of buildings thinkable. SIPs are most commonly used as exterior wall panels. Still, SIPs are also used as an entire building system, for creating vaulted or cathedral roofs.

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One Comment to “Using creative materials for SIP construction”

  1. cmkavala | August 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 am

    Steel Sips are actually available in 53 ft lengths with many benefits over OSB
    Look at this 6 videow series about steel sip construction
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&channelID=468602158

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