The Eco-Panels Blog

The Insanity of Stick-Framed Construction

The Insanity of Stick-Framed Construction

THE INSANITY OF STICK-FRAMED CONSTRUCTION, or "Why Stick Construction Is Not Green-Building" Going to build or buy a new home?  Odds are it will be made out of "sticks", a simple 2x4 or 2x6 framing method that goes back almost 200 years.  And you will pay tens of...

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Tiny Cabins or Cottages

Tiny Cabins or Cottages

Lots of talk these days about tiny houses, homes, cottages or cabins.  Companies like the very well known Tumbleweed and many others have some very nice looking product on the market - very pretty and quaint.  And I'm amazed at the prices they are charging for these -...

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Lost Power? Get Eco-Panels!

We hear that so many people in the New York and New Jersey area are still without power - even in large city-run affordable housing complexes.  This is a tough situation for many in that region, but having homes made from traditional methods of construction, from...

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Well Hoods and Pump Houses

As a company we see lots of opportunity for, and actually have lots of experience in using our rapidly erected and super-insulated building panels for reasons far beyond traditional construction of homes, apartment buildings, churches or schools.  You may not...

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Renovating Inner-City or Existing Buildings

In answering a number of questions we have had recently regarding retro-fitting or renovating existing buildings, YES!  We can do that.  For example we have provided R40 roof panels to inner-city redevelopment projects where the interior skin of the roof panels was an...

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