The Eco-Panels Blog
New Time-Lapse Video Featuring Wide Variety of Panel Types
Please take a look at our latest posted video titled "Western NC Home - First Floor" featured in the video section on the left side of our home page. This time-lapse video shows a nice wide variety of panel types and an ease of construction simply not possible with...
Start with the Building Envelope
I was talking with a LEED professional the other day and was glad to hear him say that when speaking with builders that talk about wanting to put PV panels on the roof, or digging up the front yard for a geo-thermal heating system, or solar thermal water heating, he...
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...