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
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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