2025 Newsletters

Best Practices Videos for SIP Building Professionals

Nov 25, 2025 - SIPA has released four short videos with a focus on SIPA’s Need to Know brochure and the Best Practices series. Al Cobb, director of SIPschool and Master SIP Builder, provides insights that every SIP building professional should consider or adopt on their next project. Take a look at the latest videos. Open Newsletter

Mighty Hero Homes is Building with SIPs for Veterans. Get Involved.

Nov 13, 2025 - Mighty Hero Homes is a growing nonprofit directly addressing the housing and affordability crisis affecting more than 30,000 homeless veterans. With the help of donated resources, building expertise and tons of heart, this team is breaking ground to ensure that these vital contributors to our country are supported with dignity. Open Newsletter

Two SIP Homes Featured in Green Builder’s Latest Magazine

Oct 30, 2025 - The six grand winners in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s annual Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) Housing Innovation Awards have found ways to promote the benefits of affordability, geothermal energy, passive construction and recycled products – all key elements of sustainable thinking. Open Newsletter

Blog Drop: Solution-Oriented Builders Use SIPs

Oct 16, 2025 - SIPs were made for moments like this—when speed, simplicity, and workforce efficiency matter more than ever.? And also a reminder that smarter construction doesn’t need to be more complicated. Open Newsletter

Elite SIP Craftsmen Bring Experience and Heart to Each Project

Oct 2, 2025 - October is an exciting month for SIPA as we dedicate our communications to promoting the achievements of our Master SIP Builder community. There are 14 certified Master SIP Builders who have completed the Building Education with SIPs Training (BEST) program, have been building for more than 5 years, and have also demonstrated their command of SIPs with energy performance certifications. Open Newsletter

The Most Valuable Guide to Succeed with SIPs

Sep 18, 2025 - There are many resources available to assist with the SIP learning curve and none of them are as thorough and precision-based as the Builder’s Guide to Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) by Joseph Lstiburek. Every building crew needs this book on hand as they’re learning SIP construction. Open Newsletter

SIPA’s Building Excellence Awards Showcase the Exceptional

Sep 4, 2025 - Earlier this year, SIPA announced the Building Excellence Awards for SIP projects completed in 2024. It was a building year full of federal tax credits fueling energy-efficient design, and SIP buildings demonstrated their characteristic affordability, durability and resilience. The SelectSIP newsletter showcases a single SIP project in each issue, and this week’s aim is to highlight the range of this year’s winners and the member-driven awards themselves. Without the dedication of SIPA’s members and their elaborate networks of design professionals and builders on the ground, the superiority of SIP construction and the benefits to SIP occupancy would be difficult to articulate. Open Newsletter

Rural Builder Features Commercial SIPs by Energy Panel Structures

Aug 21, 2025 - This warehouse project in Terril, Iowa, involved the construction of a multifunctional facility to house all agronomy operations for Pro Cooperative, including a service shop, liquid fertilizer storage, a seed warehouse, a 24-hour load bay, and office space. Pro Cooperative has successfully used SIPs in several previous projects. Open Newsletter

EEBA Summit Pre-Event: Free Workshop To Discuss Affordability

Aug 7, 2025 - The housing market is teetering on the edge — the gap between home prices and household incomes has blown past severe financial burden to uncharted territory. “This is just not sustainable,” said Taylor Morrison CEO, Sheryl Palmer. No builder can ignore this existential threat to the industry. Without bold, immediate action, the industry is poised to have an alarming reckoning. Open Newsletter

Fire Testing the SIP Building Envelope

Jul 24, 2025 - Build safe, energy-efficient homes with SIPs in areas experiencing wildfires. Blistering summer heat and drier than normal autumns make this time of year especially susceptible to wildfires. Western North America has improved fire safety, implemented water levy programs and enhanced building codes for new construction to mitigate the degree of devastation left by wildfires. Open Newsletter

Meet Harder Codes with a Smarter Product

Jul 10, 2025 - Open Newsletter

SIPs Eliminate the Complexity of Continuous Insulation

Jun 26, 2025 - When it comes to designing energy-efficient, high-performance building envelopes, simplicity matters. With Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), meeting the 2024 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is straightforward—and smart. SIPs make it simple. Open Newsletter

Insulation Tax Credits Are at Risk

Jun 10, 2025 - The reconciliation bill pending congressional legislation will eliminate critical building energy credits. Open Newsletter

Structural Insulated Panels are a Ready Solution for Evolving Codes

May 29, 2025 - As codes grow more stringent to meet today’s environmental and safety challenges, SIPs have proven themselves reliable and future-ready solutions. Backed by decades of testing and industry adoption, SIPs meet or exceed International Residential Code (IRC) and International Building Code (IBC) standards. Whether you're building in a wildfire-prone region, a high-wind coastal zone, or in freezing mountain climates, SIPs are engineered to meet performance targets across diverse conditions. Open Newsletter

The Safety in SIPs – Building Safety Month Part II

May 12, 2025 - Building Safety Month continues and themes for weeks 3-5 include how to mitigate disasters, become a safety professional and ensure the safety of a home. Structural insulated panels (SIPs) are an especially high-performing material; however, they also outshine the competition as a continuous insulation. SIPs are a healthier choice for occupants because of optimized ventilation and an airtight structure. They have undergone rigorous testing and Open Newsletter

Safe, Sound and Sustainable SIPs May is Building Safety Month

Apr 28, 2025 - Building Safety Month is an international campaign that takes place in May to raise awareness about building safety. This campaign reinforces the need for the adoption of modern, regularly updated building codes, and helps individuals, families and businesses understand what it takes to create safe and sustainable structures. Open Newsletter

Four Compelling Reasons. One Proven System. SIPs.

Apr 14, 2025 - SIPs satisfy code requirements in areas as stringent as Los Angeles, California and Florida’s Miami/Dade County. Open Newsletter

SIPA 2024 EPD: Data-Backed Proof of Sustainability & Savings

Mar 31, 2025 - In late 2024, The Structural Insulated Panel Association (SIPA) and itsmembers finalized the first industry-wide Environmental ProductDeclaration (EPD) for Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs),providing clear, third-party verified data that allows SIPs to competealongside traditional building methods. This EPD offers a transparentassessment of SIPs’ environmental impact, covering the entire lifecycle from raw material extraction to manufacturing, transportation,use and disposal. Open Newsletter

Don’t Miss Out on Tax Credits Earned in 2024

Mar 20, 2025 - Whether it’s an efficiency improvement to a multifamily housing complex, a new singlefamily build meeting ENERGY STAR requirements, a commercial retrofit, or a property owner installing new insulation, Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) make it easy to build sustainably and benefit from the latest tax credits. SIPs can help you qualify for incentives and rebates for efficiency upgrades to new and existing commercial buildings, homes, multifamily and public buildings through sections 45L, 25C, and 179D of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Open Newsletter

The SIP True Cost Bidding Tool Demonstrates the Savings

Mar 6, 2025 - SIPs enthusiasts know that SIPs are better and faster than conventional construction methods but proving reduced cost has been challenging until recently. In 2023, SIPA launched the SIP True Cost Bidding Tool (STCBT) — a free online calculator developed in partnership with Sam Rashkin, retired Chief Architect of the U.S. Department of Energy and author of Housing 2.0: A Disruption Survival Guide. Open Newsletter

The 2025 Green Builder Awards Recognize a Large SIP Complex

Feb 20, 2025 - Zero energy 2-and-3-bedroom SIP apartments for the urban dwelling Kansans - Green Builder Media recently announced their 2025 Green Home of the Year Awards. Structural Insulated Panels are featured annually in the lineup of winners, and this year’s honorable mention is a 115-unit SIP apartment complex in Kansas City. Open Newsletter

SIPA Announces the 2025 Building Excellence Award Winners

Feb 6, 2025 - SIPA announced the winners of the 2025 Building Excellence Awards at its annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 28. Now in its 23rd year, the trade association’s offsite construction award program recognizes standout residential and commercial projects that illustrate the thermal performance, design flexibility and resiliency of structural insulated panels (SIPs). To meet increasingly tough building and energy codes in all climate zones, a growing number of industry professionals are choosing SIPs to deliver a nearly impermeable building envelope that prioritizes the comfort, health and safety of the homeowner or future building occupant. Open Newsletter

How SIPA Concentrated on Affordability and Sustainability in 2024

Jan 23, 2025 - While SIPs have been setting the tone as an energy-efficient and durable product for decades, consumers are now driven towards green-conscious building materials at unprecedented levels. SIPA has always been transparent about promoting SIP building science and environmental data, and 2024 was no exception. Looking back at the year, SIPA assisted in key showcases, panels and industry verification processes to situate SIPs as the sustainable, proven and established building insulation material for the coming year. Open Newsletter

This Year Brings the Same SIP Content in a Fresh Newsletter Format

Jan 13, 2025 - The Structural Insulated Panel Association has migrated publication services for our high-traffic SelectSIPs Newsletter. With an audience of more than 60,000 individuals, this newsletter hones in on SIP-related news as well as industry innovations that trickle into SIP territory. Expect the same caliber of content in 2025 to be delivered with a fresh look in a format that’s easy to navigate and share with peers. Open Newsletter

24 issues.