Raising the SIP Panels for High Performance House

Raising the South SIPs Walls in Early January!

Chris Sturbaum and crew of Golden Hands Construction are joined by Porter SIPs consultant, David Suutala, to install the SIP panels for the Gulyas house in Bloomington, Indiana. The walls are 12.38" thick, with wood integrated around the window openings and where structure is necessary. The SIPs are load bearing, comprised of expanded polystyrene (XPS) sandwiched between two layers of oriented strand board. The south elevation shown here, will capture radiant solar energy through the windows, and stored in the floor slab to heat the house in cold weather. The floor slab is thermally decoupled from the perimeter foundation and floating on 10.5" of extruded polystyrene insulation (EPS) reclaimed from decontructed commercial roofs!

Comments

[Heather Reser]

I look forward to following the progress of your home building. I am also building a home using Porter SIPS...they have been installing them this week. Our home is also a passive solar designed home. Thanks for sharing your progress!

Heather Reser
Bristol, Indiana