SIPs Let You Build Green

Thinking about adding a room addition onto your home? Add more living space to your home the eco‑friendly way. We will help you build a “greener” room addition with SIPs. Building green is not only good for the environment, it's good for your lifestyle. Building green means planning and using structural systems that increase energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and converse natural resources. The selection of Premier Building System SIPs for your room addition construction lets you build with a product that is one of the most environmentally‑responsible, green building products in the industry today.

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Reducing the Impact on the Environment with SIPs

When choosing Premier Building System SIPs you are getting a product with built‑in features that provide environmental benefits. Premier Building System SIPs reduce their impact on the environment by using component materials that are earth friendly:

• Premieor SIPs save 60% on heating/cooling costs
  
  
• SIP room additions and buildings have better indoor air quality and exceptional comfort
  
  
• Pollutants adn energy consumption are greatly reduced by building with SIPs
  
  
• Premier Building System SIPs provide valuable points towards building initiatives (LEED, nahb gbg, article 24, etc.)
  
  
• Thick EPS foam cores sandwiched between OSB (Oriented Strand Board) panel faces EPS are made of partially‑recycled material.
  
  
• The OSB is made from fast‑growing trees, and produced in a way that yields a large percentage of every tree.
  
  
• Premier's products emit no HCFCs or CFCs and their mastics are available with zero VOC compounds
  
  
• Premier Building System SIPs minimize the use of traditional lumber
  
  
• Waste is also minimized by providing factory fabrication of complete building packages
  
  

Building materials and their impact on the environment should be considered over the full life of the building structure. This is considered the “life cycle” of the building or structure. This includes inventoring the cost to the environment from material production, transportation, installation, use, and end of life reuse, recycling, or disposal. Research has shown that for both residential buildings and commercial buildings that operations contribute to over 90% of the building's impact on global warming. Reducing energy use is the best way to reduce our impact on the environment. Choosing the correct building materials can help conserve natural resources, energy and indoor air quality.

That's why Premier Building System SIPs are considered one of the most environmentally responsible building materials on the market. Room additions and buildings framed with Premier SIPs waste about 60% less material than buildings constructed out of traditional stick frame lumber.

Breathe Better Air Inside a SIP Room Addition

The EPA says that 19% (or about 1 in every 5) of all American households have at least one member with asthma. They go on to say taht four out of ten (40%) of children born in America today will develop some type of respiratory ailment. This is a reason enough to look at SIPs as a room addition building system. SIPs dramatically improve indoor air quality, keeping harmful airborne pollutants out and keeping clean air in.

Rapidly Renewable Resources Contribute to Eco‑Friendly Construction

The skins of Premier Building System SIPs are made from OSB (oriented strand board), a known and proven “rapidly renewable” wood resource where the trees that are used grow incredibly fast and are harvested only from crops planted for this specific use. Virtually the entire tree is used in panel prodcution with little waste.

SIPs Provide Superior Energy Conservation

Structural Insulated Panels provide superior energy savings. While builders gain from using fewer natural resources in the construction process, it’s the homeowner who really benefits. Studies have been conducted in both hot and cold climates and have shown that homeowners living in homes constructed of SIPs save between 40% and 60% on their heating/cooling costs. Paired with solar energy options, a Premier SIPs home may get very close to a zero energy home.

Reducing CO2 Emissions with SIPs

With up to 60% in energy savings, building room additions, homes and buildings with SIPs reduces tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year resulting in a positive impact on the environment.

SIPs Get High Environmental Credentialing

The U.S. Green Building Council developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ to promote green buildings. The LEED system provides a yardstick for measuring the environmental impact of buildings. “Certified”, “Bronze”, “Silver”, and “Platinum” levels can be achieved based upon a point system. Very few products can help you achieve a large number of points like Premier SIPs can ‑ up to 23 points per product on LEED alone. SIPs have also been recognized as an ultimate high performance building system. Energy Star waived the blower door testing requirement for all SIPs constuction and the APA said that zero energy construction (not to mention high environmentally credentialing) is virtually impossible to gain without including SIPs systems.

Building Construction Waste Reduction

When SIPs are used in the construction of room additions, home and commerical buildings, there is approximately 30% less jobsite waste compared to traditional framing methods. How? SIPs arrive at a jobsite already precut and installation ready, very much like the pieces of a puzzle. As more and more room additions and buildings are constructed with SIPs, a huge dent can be made into our nationwide lumber waste which is estimated by the EPA to be large enough to build 62,000 average size new homes each year!

Premier Building System Practices Responsible Manufacturing

Premier's OSB and lumber scrap is resed and or sent to wood recycling facilities. Foam scrap from the middle of PBS's SIPs is also reground so that it can be reformed into new foam production. Their process creates very little waste for landfill. And their foam is produced from a physical reation simply by adding heat and water rather than harsh chemicals like those used in other insulations. Premier's products emit no HCFCs or CFCs and their mastics are available with zero VOC compounds.

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