SIP disaster relief housing.

Hi

I'm a Student at Western Washington University and I'm working on a quarter long project designing disaster relief housing for our county.

We have been planning our project around osb panels but I recently found out about cementus SIP's. I'm wondering if designed properly could these panels serve as the exterior surface as well with just a layer of paint? Or would we still have to have some sort of exterior water protection? The design we have now has large over hangs but Western Washington is an excessively wet climate.

Any help in basic design must knows would be great as well. We have a general idea of the way sip's are put together but aside from that not much.

does any one make a sip that uses a very high recycled material content?

Keep in mind these are small temporary structures. Our hopes are that the house could be stored ready to go up and in the event of a  disaster be assembled quickly then be sold off to property owners who would then use the structure as a base to rebuild their house.


Thanks Carson

Carson,

You might try contacting the manufacturer directly.  T Clear Corporation, www.tclear.com, manufactures and distributes ProTech C-SIP panels.  The web site has some great information on installation as well.

Athough I haven't used them, I have a colleague who does and he is very impressed with them.  It saves him the step of installing drywall on the perimeter walls.  He also likes them because he can apply stucco directly to the exterior.

I don't see why your idea of simply painting the exterior wouldn't work.  We've primed, painted and waterproofed concrete and stucco for years.

Shoot me an email and keep me posted, [email protected]

Good luck!

jeff

Carson;

Steel SIPs can be packaged as disaster relief housing with simply caulking the wall joints and taping the roof joints.
In fact we have supplied several utility structures as permanent buildings that way.
Eave overhangs can be as much as 4ft. (unsupported)

walls are much lighter than cement board or OSB, do not require any splines , utilizing T&G friction fit joints and require no joint fasteners

If you want to drop me a private e mail, I would be happy to supply you all that you need for your project  including samples.