SIPs News

Structural Insulated Panels, or SIPs, are specialised building panels used for constructing floors, ceilings and walls. Builders and designers use them widely because of their durability and high energy efficient design, and are available from SIPs Industries in various lengths, widths and thickness options.

What are the benefits of using SIPs?

SIPs offer many substantial benefits to designers, architects, builders, and the residents and can be used as a roof surface, for flooring and external walls.

 What's it like to live in a SIPs home? We get asked this all the time.

So SIPs Industries asked the 17-year-old daughter, Abby, of parents who built with SIPs to give us her take on what it's like, from a teen's perspective, to live in a SIPs home.

Take a read of the article below to see what Abby had to say.

My Experience Living in a SIPs Home

17 years and of the 7 homes we have lived in, 6 were brick.

Living in a SIPs home is easy. In small ways, the way we live and act in our home has changed almost without thought. There are habits that have changed due to the effects of using SIPs, (and Chalk Build as a building company).

 SIPs Industries is proud to announce that all 3 of our nominations for the 2018 HIA GreenSmart Awards won in their respective categories.

• GreenSmart Renovation/Addition Project of the Year for Hensman Street South Perth
• GreenSmart Project Home of the Year for Oxley Road Darlington
• GreenSmart Spec Home of the Year for Mill Point Road South Perth

Passivhaus is a rigorous, voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. It results in ultra-low energy buildings that require little energy for space heating or cooling.

We spoke with Roger Joyner, the building designer and Passivhaus Consultant who was responsible for designing and achieving passivhaus certification for the SIPS built home in Cottesloe . . .

Mulberry Homes offers a full design service from planning your home renovation project to engineering and architecture. Mulberry specialises in renovating older homes, usually working from Subiaco to Fremantle and more recently, Mount Lawley.

Proprietor Charles has tried a few alternatives to brick work, but has settled on using Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) for most home renovation work. Charles is happy to work from a home-owner's own renovation plans. The rough process of home renovation (or new build) goes from ;

• scheme drawings
• planning approval
• working drawings
• renovating / building the home

We spoke with Charles and asked him why he prefers to use SIPs panels over brick or other pre-built panel products . . .

Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)

A Builder's take with Andrew Abercromby (Consortium Builders)

Andrew Abercromby qualified as a Civil / Environmental Engineer at UWA. He worked on engineering construction projects in Belgium and New Guinea and completed an MBA in France. Andrew was appointed Project Coordinator for an expansion to Sydney’s International Airport Terminal Building and then transferred to the UK and Switzerland to help integrate three European businesses. He now works in Perth, specialising in building homes with environmentally friendly products.

He recently completed WA’s first PassivHaus using our own structural insulated panels. Building a home in Cottesloe to international standards regarding energy efficiency and comfort was a great experience for Andrew.