What do you need to know about SIP framing? In this video, Matt Risinger, master builder shows us how to use structural insulated panels. The panels are pre-built and have insulation installed. There are three important advantages of SIPS, including cycle time—the ability to frame a house 50% faster compared with traditional framing, insulation—panels are made from two sheets of OSB and in between is EPS foam for an R-value of 3.6/inch and since it's all glued together, it's a structural panel and able to be used in all the right places. Finally, the insulation is air tight. This type of house is tighter because. After they tape the joint between the concrete and the SIP panels and run a continuous concrete housewrap up the walls, over the roof and back down with no breaks using DELTA VENT SA. It provides a great water barrier and air barrier. If you are building a SIPs house, have the HVAC designed for that house—having someone familiar with SIPs to do it. This will need much less load than a traditional house.