Educational Presentations
The Housing Affordability Imperative: The Power to Build Better for Lower Cost
At EEBA's High Performance Home Summit in 2025, Sam Rashkin - author of Housing 2.0 - delivered the Optimization Workshop to attendees. Looking at housing affordability and the crisis at hand, this presentation helps identify opportunities to optimize user experience at a lower cost for immediate action.
Use this presentation to find information on:
• Housing 2.0 Background
• Housing Affordability Beyond Crisis
• Seven Cost Optimization Strategies
• SIPs Resources
High-Performance Enclosures: Faster, Better, Greater Value
by Sam Rashkin
Are you getting passed by innovative builders achieving net-zero easier and faster than you are at a lower overall cost? Been afraid of off-site construction and what it means to your trades and incorporating them into your operations?
Learn to illustrate proven examples of how structural insulated panels (SIPs) are used in a wide variety of project types, from residential (single and multifamily) to light commercial (hotels, schools, churches, retail and restaurants) to retrofit - all to provide faster, less complicated, building envelopes while providing many cost synergies. This will be illustrated and proven via a newly developed True Cost Bidding Tool, which easily allows for on-the-fly data input comparing your building methods against SIPs.
High-Performance Enclosures: Faster, Better and Greater Value
Why Smart Builders Use SIPs – What You Need to Know
by Joe Pasma & Lee Bergum
Structural insulated panels (SIPs) are high-performance building systems for residential and light commercial construction. SIPs are manufactured under factory-controlled conditions and can be fabricated to fit nearly any building design. The result is a powerful, energy-efficient, and cost-effective building system.
Building With Structural Insulated Panels Without Adding Cost
Don't miss this presentation by Gwen Bertolami, civil engineer and SIP expert out of California, from the Arizona State Engineers Convention the first of June, 2025. This comprehensive presentation specifically covers:
- how engineers can design for SIPs
- An introduction to the best resources for design professionals
- How SIPs enhance a project/structure
- 10 Common SIP Structural Engineering Mistakes
- SIPs and Energy, plus more!
Closed Wall Systems: Building with SIPs
by Al Cobb & Jack Armstrong
The Building Systems Housing Summit offers a unique opportunity to learn more about offsite construction and network with key players in the field. This one-of-a-kind event connects builders with insights, leaders and decision makers to help them successfully identify, apply and adopt offsite construction as part of their business model.
Closed Wall Systems: Building with Structural Insulated Panels with Al Cobb and Jack Armstrong
Building with SIPs - Part 1
Building with SIPs - Part 2
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