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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

SIPs are a high performance building system where the interior structural portion of the wall is assembled like an ice cream sandwich using a 7/16″ layer of oriented strand board (OSB) as the outside of the sandwich, and in our case, a 5 1/2″ interior cavity filled with styrofoam, which would be the ice cream. R value of 27.48

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