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Guide informing architects and engineers about designing buildings to be constructed with structural insulated panels.

Guide informing builders and developers about efficient building practice for constructing homes with structural insulated panels.

A structural insulated panel (SIP) roof has no embedded lumber in the structure, and therefore nothing substantial for attaching PV array and solar hot water mounts. Single or double lumber splines could be put into the panels, or I-joists at 4-foot intervals could be added.

Website providing information about INSULSPAN structurally insulated panels.

Presentation describing details for installing structural insulated panels (SIPs).

A book about structurally insulated panels.

Test results used by multiple structural insulated panel manufacturers confirming a one-hour fire rating for specific SIP assemblies.

Article in the SIPA Technical Bulletin (No. 11) comparing the earthquake resistance of light-frame wood shear wall construction to residential construction with structural insulated panels (SIPS).

Article describing quality of life and economic benefit from trees.

Document with information about the most practical methods to achieve whole-wall performance of R-30 or above.

Report considers a number of promising wall systems that can meet the requirement for better thermal control.

Report about the Advanced Envelope Research effort will provide factory homebuilders with urgently-needed, cost effective methods for meeting emerging energy code requirements.

Fact sheet providing guidance on alternative building materials and techniques in coastal environments, including Engineered Wood Products, SIPs, ICFs, Prefabricated Shear Walls and Moment Frames, Sprayed Closed-Cell Foam Insulation, Advanced Wall Framing, and Modular Houses; also published in FEMA...