The Eco-Panels Blog
More Extreme Weather – Tornadoes in NYC
This weekend we saw more extreme weather, this time spawning multiple tornadoes in New York City. As this article states, tornadoes used to be a very rare event in the NYC area, but now not uncommon. Because of our superior strength building envelope, Eco-Panels has...
Affordable Housing? NO! Affordable Living!
I cringe when I see affordable housing developments going up using virtually the same building materials used in the 1960s. We see the same cheap stick-built (wood or steel) methods of construction used in almost all parts of our country. The builders have a pretty...
The Truth About “Ballistic SIPs”
I noticed in passing over another website the other day a company hyping their "proprietary" or "unique" ballistic sips, or structural insulated panels. As you may or may not know, a "sip" is a building panel that contains the properties of being both a STRUCTURAL...
Actual Energy Cost Data For Comparison Between Eco-Panels SIPs and Stick Construction
It is not often that we obtain energy consumption data for two identical model homes, one built with our unique polyurethane injected Eco-Panels sips and one built out of stick construction. Actually the 2x4 stick construction home was built using advanced stick...
And Now For Something Completely Different
Eco-Panels manufactures the most advanced SIPs on the market today. Yet a love of science and technology - eventually leading to my degree in applied physics - started way back before I ever knew about building science. I remember Mr. Wizard well - and perhaps he...