SIP – Integrated Building System
Internationally, SIP is an acronym for Structural Insulated Panel.
SIP by Green Panel represents the 21st Century's Building System;
SIP System is a complete build up solution translated into an Integrated Building System, which provides strength, stiffness, high thermal insulation and noise protection.
The result is a building product that is predictable, resource and cost efficient.
Structural Insulated Panels are one-piece pre-engineered wall, floor or roof segments that arrive to the construction site ready to install.
SIP panels are made up of rigid PIR Foam core sandwiched between two sheets of 15 mm OSB bonded together.
SIP – The RIGHT system at the RIGHT time!
SIP History
Some of the earliest examples of SIP can be found in the houses designed by the well-known architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Due to the lack of insulation, his prototype failed to achieve widespread popularity and they were never produced on a large scale.
Alden B. Dow - an architecture student of Frank Lloyd Wright - experimented further with the concept of structural panels and in 1950 he created a structural panel with an insulated core. Alden B. Dow is considered by many to be the first practitioner of SIPs.
SIP Method only came to practice in the 1970’s and was under patent until recently. As a result it was introduced in Europe only ten years ago.
Lately, it was proven that SIP is a great alternative building option, universally accepted by all building codes. Increased energy costs, heightened environmental concerns, negative anti-oil industry sentiment, and more globally conscious communities, have made SIP a powerful alternative to conventional stick framing.