Cardinal Building Systems, Inc. will be hosting a builders class on Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)
The class will be held on January 19th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. There is no fee for the class and is open to anyone interested in learning about SIPs. The class will be held at the Hampton Inn in Winchester, VA then we will go to the manufacturing plant to see how the panels are made.
This class covers:
The definition of SIPS, Building with SIPs, SIPs vs. Stick building, R-Control: Control not Comprimise, SIP's role in the Emerging Green Market, a Question and Answer Session and will be finished up with a plant tour.
Please RSVP by Friday the 11th as seating is limited. If you are unable to attend this class we will be having another in February and one in March. We can also schedule individual meetings with anyone interested who is unable to make it to the classes.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
Contact: Summer Berry
Phone: 540-535-7282
Fax: 540-535-0992
e-mail: summer@cardinalbuildings.com
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so how did it turn out? Did the snow scare people off? - maxmsf
good luck Summer! Take some
good luck Summer! Take some photos and make sure to tell us how it was!
Check this out!
You have to come check out the builders class for Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). Not only for builders this class will educate anyone who is interested in working with or using SIPs.
Cardinal Building Systems, Inc.
Building Efficiently for Energy Savings
All we need is some more framers...
Right now I am having a hard time finding framers that have experience with SIPs. Some framers I talked to have very little or no experience, and they want to charge a premium just to learn it! It's a little frustrating, but I really hope we can train up more framing crews (I just need a framing sub, since I'm owner building). Should I just hire you and pay for you to come to Austin, TX and train up a framing crew? :-)
I even contacted SIPA and they said they here a lot of complaints about not enough SIP Framing Crews.... hmmm... a business idea?
Regards,
Myleen
http://sjodindreamhome.blogspot.com
The Side That's Always Greener....
The class went great!
Thanks guys for checking in on us. As usual there was not a huge turnout. We had about 15 people. Thankfully the snow melted on Friday and we only had one person cancel. I wish that I could have pictures of the plant but they have a privacy policy and cameras are strickly forbidden. I will see if I can get permission sometime and get some on the site.
Now as for Myleen's comment. Did your distributor have a tech rep that they'd be willing to send out? Some distributors will give one free day of a Tech Reps service and then a fee for the additional days requested. Also if the builder that you have subcontracted is smart they will eat the cost of the tech rep because this will benefit them in the future. They should look at it as continuing education.
If you need me or one of my guys to come out there I'm sure we'd be more than happy to. (My one tech rep will loves to fly so he would jump on the opportunity to come help) Feel free to e-mail or call me if there are any questions that your subs have. What kind of panels did you guys end up with? Most are similar but some are better than others.
I will post again soon about next months class (We have about 3 a year all free of charge). We believe that once people are educated about the benefits of SIPs they won't go with anything else.
Summer Berry
Cardinal Building Systems, Inc.
Building Efficiently for Energy Savings