How would you go about putting dormers on 2nd story of a sip house assuming I am using sips for roofs. Do dormers make it harder to have a energy tight home? Thanks!

No, it's done all of the time(OSB SIPS). If it can be stick framed, it can be done with OSB SIPS. Less efficient? Not than Stick framed.

It's done all the time with steel SIPs too, as shown below, the octagon roofs at each end of the front porch are also steel SIPs as well as the green colored panels used as beams


or how about a hip with 4 foot overhangs!

Thanks for the replies. Does anyone have a link to drawings, pics or videos of a dormer going onto a sip house as it is under construction?

Crash;

I'll e mail the entire set of the plans shown to you in that previous picture, they show all connection details, panel layout plans, they are the actual permit set......-----  they are in PDF format 18 pages, just drop me a line to the email address below.

offer goes to you OSB guys too if you would like to take a peek?

Thanks for sending those my way. The detail is perfect for what I needed. In this example there are panels about 23' tall with a window at bottom and one up at top for the dormer. Being new to sips I didn't know they could be that tall (would it be ok in OSB as well?)