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Green Building Specialists

At House & Sun, Inc., we've specialized in energy-efficient green buildings for over 35 years. We've supplied and installed super-insulated Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) for residential, commercial, and institutional projects. We also specialize in top-quality sunrooms and conservatories.

Our Maine Camps & Cottages division offers affordable smaller homes to our design or yours built of SIPs for superior strength, comfort, and energy savings.

Examples of our projects include:

  • Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument Visitors Center

  • University of Maine Hutchinson Center

  • Portland International Marine Transportation Center

  • Southern Maine Community College Art Center

  • Lincolnville Central School

  • Coastal Kids School

  • Avesta Homeless Veterans Apartment Building

  • Pediatric Associates of Lewiston

  • Bar Harbor Bank & Trust

  • Franklin Savings Bank

  • Acadia National Park Schoodic Education and Research Center

  • Twin Pines Camps and Resort

  • Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding

  • Brooklin Boat Yard

  • and the Waynflete Lower School (certified super-energy efficient by the PassiveHouse standard)

Our SIP projects have included:

  • fine homes

  • camps

  • cottages

  • barns

  • studios

  • banks

  • churches

  • yacht construction buildings

  • a factory

  • schools

  • a performing arts center

  • offices

  • apartments

  • and resorts

 

Homes and commercial buildings built with SIPs are not just top performers in terms of energy efficiency, they are also significantly more comfortable places to live and work than conventionally framed buildings.

 

Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)

SIPs are composed of a continuous core of rigid foam insulation, which is laminated between two layers of structural board (usually oriented strand board) to form a single, solid structural panel. Department of Energy testing shows free-standing, self-supporting SIPs out-perform wood frame construction hands down: they are more than twice as strong as stick framing, have ten times the racking resistance, and substantially reduce heat transfer, air infiltration, and outside noise. We have several different foam core types, in a variety of thicknesses and R-factors, for walls, roofs, and floors. House & Sun ships pre-cut engineered SIPs throughout the lower 48 states.

House & Sun, Inc. also provides nail base panels, which are non-structural, for deep-energy retro-fits on existing buildings. They can also be used for new construction and come in solid foam and vented versions for both walls and roofs.

 
 
 

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