Our Projects - Belgrave Heights, Victoria
This is a SIPs extension project completed in Belgrave Heights, Victoria. The owners gave us their story.
We are two architects who designed hundreds of thousands of square meters of buildings, but nothing for ourselves. So we embarked on a journey of building a house for us. We bought a piece of land with a tiny house on it, only livable for the time we were building our dream house. Planning put some cold water on our dreams (very cold) and we ended up building an extension to our tiny house.
We have tried to use SIP's in our designs beforen but clients, developers and builders alike refuse to use them. We however believed in the benefits of using SIP's:
1. Easy to transport
2. Easy to install
3. Combined functionality in one single construction element
4. Thermal properties
5. Acoustic properties
6. Fast construction method
Installing floor, wall and roof panels for a 2 story house:
Day 1 - 8 floor panels
Day 2 - 14 floor panels and wall plates installed
Day 3 - 24 wall panels
Day 4 - 10 roof panels
Day 5 - 2 roof panels and 15 wall panels
Three man carpenter crew with no previous experience installing SIPs. The only challenge was the installation of the roof panels. Due to a sloping site with limited access and proximity to the existing house we had to use a crane.
We would like to see our kids bedrooms being used by our grandchildren.
This construction method is different, special, is bespoke and so will your project be.
