SIPs and Post Frame

Written By Patrick Sughrue

Post-Frame Construction is an engineered wood building system that features large solid sawn or Glulam columns and beams instead of studs or light gauge steel studs.
In Post-Frame construction wood Columns (Posts) function as support columns. for integrated wood framing components. Wood columns can buried in the ground like a traditional Pole Barn or mounted to steel connectors in the foundation.
Wood timber rafters or steel plate trusses and purlins make up a roof support system.

With the frame up it is quick, cost effective, energy efficient to cover both the walls and roof with large SIPs.
Post Frame can be used for both larger Accessory Structures and Artisan Dwelling Units.
We have developed plans for a few Shouses / Shomes. Combing both function into one building.

Patrick Sughrue

Patrick Sughrue has been involved with Energy Efficiency building since 1980 when he installed renewable energy products including Passive solar, thermal Solar and biomass furnaces. Sughrue was also a prime contractor on The Hood River Conservation Project (HRCP) was a major residential conservation project, intended to test the upper limits of a utility retrofit program. It was proposed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) and operated by Pacific Power & Light Company (Pacific) in Hood River, Oregon. Homes were retrofitted with R-38 floors, R-48 Ceilings, Heat recovery ventilation and night setback thermostats.

Sughrue has worked on both sides of the energy equation. Energy efficient building envelopes, (now called High Performance Envelopes)as well as the efficient use of renewables including solar thermal wind, Solar PV, and geothermal heat pumps.

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