Green Building Elements: Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)

Fast becoming staples of the green building industry are pre-assembled structural insulated panels, or SIPs, ... , and quicker construction.  SIPs are polystyrene foam sandwiched between oriented strand boards that provide structural framing, insulation, and exterior sheathing in one piece.  They can be used as floors [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 02:43:25

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Go green: college style

It’s hard to green-up your lifestyle when you live in somebody else’s building ... has an individual heat control, consider investing in some 8×4 foot white rigid foam insulation panels [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 19:41:24

Stimulus can energize Asheville’s green economy

ASHEVILLE – In the green industry of tomorrow, electricians will wire solar panels with the aid of instructions loaded into an iPod. Construction workers will insulate houses with a foam spray made from soybeans. And cars will run on biodiesel made from algae. With people already training for those jobs in the classroom [more...]

Date: 2009-03-18 15:11:47

Honeycomb Panels by Sing Homes

The term “honeycomb” seems to be occurring with greater frequency these days (see the Rassadin Beehouse Lamp and Beijing Cubism) ... and with a better insulation value–than solid wood. Take 100% of the wood fiber out of the solid wood and put back 10% of that wood fiber integrated into vertically structured foam and arranged [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 15:00:28

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