Live comfortably and save money. SIPs are designed and built to reduce energy waste, lowering your energy bills and carbon emissions. Energy efficiency is effortlessly achieved with the SIPs, with skins of structural sheathing laminated on either side of a rigid foam core SIPs are strong, light, and incredibly well insulated. Reducing energy consumption means more money in your back pocket.

SIPs can be a lot faster than traditional framing, particularly when you consider prenailed walls and roof sections. Formance prenail panels are assembled into larger sections at the Formance factory and supplied in walls, or sections of roof or ceiling. When delivered to site, these panels cleverer slot into each other quickly and efficiently. 

Look after you and your whanaus health and well-being. A SIP framed house provides a healthier environment than an NZ Building Standard timber home.  A SIP home allows for better control over indoor air quality because the airtight building envelope limits incoming air to controlled ventilation. Controlled ventilation filters out contaminants and allergens, and also allows for incoming air to be dehumidified, reducing the possibility for mold growth

By drastically reducing heating and cooling requirements in a SIPs home, you're reducing your energy consumption. Formance SIPs use Oriented Strand Board sourced from responsibly managed forests. Around 85%-90% of the tree wood can be used to make high-quality structural panels, and the remaining wood (bark, saw trim & sawdust) can be converted into energy. While Formance SIPs do use Expanded Polystyrene (EPS), the Polystyrene is recyclable and it's the only rigid foam product that is. Production of the EPS panel core uses 24% less energy than fiberglass insulation of equivalent R-value. SIPs also have the ability to drastically reduce the waste generated during construction.