Structural Insulated Panels

Structural Insulated Panels by R-Control

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• Structural
• Insulated
• Panels
• SIPs
• R-Control

[DjShiverProjekt2008]

@luarkas Thx for the advice :D

[luarkas]

@DjShiverProjekt2008 : just google: polystyrene HBCD. HBCD is a flame retardant added to polystyrene, toxic, in high quantity (3% weight)

[DjShiverProjekt2008]

@luarkas yes it`s toxic,but inside the panel will do any harm?:D just asking i dont know :D

[luarkas]

polystyrene is toxic

[Bigrignohio]

@sash99zz

1: Unlike everything else a house is made of?

2: A fire needs air, how is it supposed to spread "quietly" inside a filled panel?

3: Any studies to back that up?

4: I'm sure we have ALL heard about 40-year old SIP buildings falling down from this, right? Would you mind posting links to a few articles talking about it, I can't seem to find them.

Fact is that these panels contain NOTHING that isn't already used in everyday construction (foam, OSB). Just in a better package.

[sash99zz]

very dangerous in if you have a fire in the house..

1: the they emit poisonous gas.

2: a fire can spread quietly through out the entire structure and pop out any where..

3; like engineer trusts they are structural strong under normal circumstances. but in case of fire your likely hood of surviving after a few minutes drops to 0

4: life span is another concern ( the same as engineered trust) the adhesive separation after 10 - 20 years can cause sever structural weakness in the building

[MrChrizznit]

No termites in Maine....yet, so no pest problems to worry about for now. SIPS looks like the real deal.

[Bigrignohio]

To caboverdecreole: Yes, nothing says sustainability like using minerals strip-mined from the earth rather than from a renewable wood source. Have you even looked at what it takes to be FSC certified? Plus in LEED construction you get points if it is harvested and processed within a few hundred miles of where you are using it. And I deal with structural engineers all the time. If it it is not steel or concrete the average one has no interest in it.

[trishtd]

Again, I am rather surprised at the assumptions made. I do not live in the US, have travelled the world extensively and live in a country of extreme condiitions, where remote building and expansive distances, high temperatures and lack of human resources make SIPs the logical material to be used. Many thousand of homes are due to be built, quickly and SIPs can meet that need perfectly whilst being totally green.

[trishtd]

If you check ALL factors of sustainability, embodied energy, carbon footprint, reduction in energy, waste reduction, land fill, SIPs certainly, by independent calculations are green to the nth degree. The greenest documented building was built from SIPS.