The Life Cycle Benefits of SIPS

Structural Insulated Panels (SIPS) Reduce Global Warming   Life Cycle Benefits of SIPS The basic design concept for SIPS is elegant in its simplicity, and offers several advantages for constructing walls and roofs. There is general agreement that SIPS provide better overall air tightness and practical thermal performance than conventionally framed walls. – NAHB Research [...]

SIPs could be the future of home construction

By ROBERT KOOPMANS Daily News Staff Reporter An untrained eye would have a hard time seeing what’s different about the house being built at the corner of Linfield Drive and Aberdeen Way. To those in the know, however, the level-entry rancher is the cutting edge of a new wave of high-tech home construction, using new [...]

Wrong Turn Taken: Embodied Energy & LCA

Have you seen the claims of cellulose insulating materials to be the “Greenest of the Green”? Embodied Energy is used as a basis for the claim. Cellulose has many noteworthey Green attributes, but if you look to the footnotes on the embodied energy tables for insulating materials you will see that the numbers include the “caloric [...]

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