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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.

Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) Homes Open for Display

For more than 17 years, Sustainable House Day has provided a great opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people to visit some of Australia’s leading green homes – ones that are not only environmentally friendly, but cheaper to run and more comfortable to live in.

Sustainable House Day gives visitors a chance to inspect first-hand houses that have been designed, built or renovated with sustainability in mind as well as the opportunity to talk to the owners and receive unbiased advice.

 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).

There is an important need for an air-tight external building envelope construction on Australian homes, and a well built and well considered building envelope will not only save you money, but your health too. This article will explain the problems of air leakage from houses and moisture within the structure due to current temperatures within the homes.

 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 . . .