Few, if any factory built structure designs offer the flexibility of the SIPS of America, Inc. system. We can take your existing plans and convert them to panel plans if you'd like. If you don't have house plans drawn up yet, we offer engineering services with Professional, licensed engineers who can help you design your dream home. SIPS of America also offers fully designed "quiet floor systems" and beams sized to meet your building needs. Most designs and floor plans can be constructed on a slab, crawl space or basement. Interior partitions can be located to accomodate personal preferences and not to meet structural requirements - making a SIPS home design even more flexible. The placement and types of windows are also highly flexible. If you like, you can even erect your walls before deciding where you'd like your windows. Windows and even doors can be cut out after the home is dried in, a particularly desirable feature in rural homes or areas where security during the construction phase is a concern. With most SIPS home fully errected in a week or so, that's less time vandals, weather or animals have to impact your site.

"L" or "U" shaped floor plans can be utilized to make the best use of smaller and less costly lots. And - the building's exterior can be anything from a cabin to a castle. Exterior finishes can range from bricks to any finish that will meet local building codes. Jumbo sized panels are available as well. The 8' x 24' long panels allows for two story structures to go up almost as fast as a single story home.

Compared with a one-inch section of foam insulation in a typical ice chest that will hold ice for five days at 80 degrees F, the SIPS wall and roof sections are 3 1/2" to 12 1/2" of foam insulation. Consider this - a coffee cup is merely 1/16" thick and yet can insulate 210 degree F coffee so your fingers are not burned. It takes less energy to heat and/or cool a SIPS home because of the insulation and the low air infiltration in a SIPS home. Because SIPS homes are so well-insulated they require a special and smaller heating and air system. The HVAC system is 60% smaller, resulting in even more energy savings!

Builder and home owner benefit from the speed and efficiency with which a SIPS home goes up. SIPS panels are components which are constructed with dimensional accuracy in a manufacuted setting then transported to the job or home site. Construction time at the site is spend errecting walls, not correcting mistakes. Each panel is numbered and labeled and assembled on-site. The walls of smaller homes (under 1,200 square feet for instance) may go up in under an hour and the entire home is often "dried in" in a matter of days. Not only does this save the homeowner thousands of dollars in labor costs, most SIPS construction crews consist of less than half-a-dozen workers, including the crane operator. Depending on the size and configuration of the house, the panels can be assembled in a matter of days or weeks as well. It's not unheard of to have a home ready to move into in 30-to-45 days.