Construction has begun!

FAS is partnering with the Citizen League for Environmental Action NOW (CLEAN), an environmentally conscious community organization in Houston, Texas, to build a home to demonstrate the use of structural insulated panel construction. The home uses fiber cement board faced SIP panels with expanded polystyrene cores. These panels passed rigorous test requirements established by the International Code Council (ICC), which dictates standards for building in the United States, as well as additional tests conducted by FAS that looked at structural and fire safety under extreme conditions.

And now, after extensive designing and planning, construction has started!

I’ll be posting pictures here periodically and providing a running commentary on the construction process as the house takes shape. Photos of foundation prep and the first walls going up can be found after the jump…

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Panels on the site prior to construction. Photo by Rocky Bambino Perez (CLEAN).

Panels on the site prior to construction. Photo by Rocky Bambino Perez (CLEAN).

The first panels are set in the corner. Typically SIP construction begins at one
corner and works out in both directions. Photo by Rocky Bambino Perez (CLEAN).

Installing splines to connect the panels. Photo by DT Construction.

Moving the steel trusses onto the site. Photo by DT Construction.

Steel trusses set on the site. Photo by DT Construction.

View from the South. Photo by DT Construction.

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