From the ground up

SipForm gives greater design freedom when building to sloping sites, variable bearing conditions, or where additions to an existing home might require more than one type of sub-floor construction.

Our floor panels are the best choice for sloping or sensitive sites, where costly earthworks and retaining walls or loss of established shade trees may result from traditional slab on-ground construction. SipForm panels can be adapted to all common methods of construction, from the ground, or from the floor up.

From the ground up

SipForm panels can be adapted to all common methods of construction, from the ground, or from the floor up.

SipForm gives greater design freedom when building to sloping sites, variable bearing conditions, or where additions to an existing home might require more than one type of sub-floor construction.

SipFloor is the best choice for sloping or sensitive sites, where costly earthworks and retaining walls or loss of established shade trees may result from traditional slab on-ground construction.

SIPS allow greater customisation than kit homes, offering a fully design led solution for the owner builder looking to get to lock up fast.

Slab on Ground

On level sites or within inner urban areas, where slab on ground may be a preference, SipForm wall panels can be utilised to speed construction and increase the overall thermal performance and living comfort of any home.

SipForm significantly reduces build time and costs, and can be used seamlessly with traditional trussed roofs where the established housing typology adopts a common hip and valley tiled or steel sheet roof forms.

Elevated Systems

Our system lends itself to all housing types and methods of construction. The system is however without parallel on sites with even moderate slope, those subject to flooding or elevated groundwater, varied bearing or where landscape features are intended to be left undisturbed.

Our integrated and insulated flooring system can be installed upon any site fast! Use of an innovative footing system reduces excavation, site disturbance and the need for concrete.

Upper Construction

In two storey homes or second floor additions, structure may dictate the use of a conventional flooring system. SipForm floor panels can be utilised to achieve greater clear spans and reduce the flooring depth, or SipForm Quiet floor panels can be installed over any floor joist structure.

Both options improve insulation between climate controlled zones providing greater internal comfort and reduction in energy costs, better acoustics and more privacy throughout the home.

Typical Trussed Roof

Our wall panels can be used in conjunction with a range of conventional roofing structures. Steel or timber trusses can be anchored to the top plate using the same specified for normal framing.

This allows you to make the most of your home, using standardised trusses to meet current market demand. Where roofs are hipped and finished with roof tiles or steel sheeted, these roof types meet the common demands of the more discerning buyer.

Panels Contained

If you are considering a more contemporary feel to your home and installing a parapet around your roofing, we highly recommend our insulated panel roofing.
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This insulated roofing product can be installed and fully contained within the parapet. The roofing panels can be built to almost any length and are self supporting over long spans. If looking for a flat ceiling, the underside can be fitted with depth adjusted timber battens and lined.

Panels Cantilevered

Again, where a more contemporary feel is being considered, our insulated panel roofing can be installed to create large open spans and deep shaded awnings.

Deep shaded awnings are common to most climatic conditions. Your designer can be size these awnings to provide for full sun penetration in our cool winters and omit the penetration of the sun to any internal areas of the home during the extreme heat of our summers.

Installing footings is easy!

We use a proprietary footing system to get you up fast.

Our footing supplier devised a unique system that allows the pads to be installed without using concrete. These are capable of accepting high loads and far more resistant to uplift under cyclone conditions.

What's the SipFrom difference?

First, not all SIPS products are the same! There are numerous types of panels on the market, those surfaced with OSB (Orientated Strand Board), surfaced directly with Fibre Cement or those surfaced to one face with Weathertex.

OSB (Orientated Strand Board) a reconstituted timber board similar to particleboard, well known for its use in flooring and now historic use in kitchen cabinets. Panels fabricated from OSB are incredibly strong and easily worked with traditional carpentry tools, homes built utilising these panels are high performing, and panel for panel they are very competitively priced. However if you've ever worked with OSB you'll already know it doesn't like water!

Fibre Cement is a well known building product. Currently used throughout the industry, directly as a cladding material, eave linings, internal for wet area linings and now to surface SipForm panels both internally and externally. Fibre Cement is resiliant to water, fire, wood borers and to termites.

Weathertex as building board it has few equals. Made from reconsituted timber pulp and available in a wide range of finishes that come pre-primmed and ready for immediate painting. SipForm utilise this product as an external finish for it's environmental credentials, it's strength and ease of working. Weathertex is resiliant to water and rated up to Bal 19 for use in bushfire prone areas.

Let's Take a Close Look!

We check out the two main types of panel available in our market. From a simple overview of what is involved in the construction methods when using each panel system we can gauge a number of implications to any build: The time taken to achieve the same finish after the panels are installed, the ability of the panels to withstand heavy rain if left uncovered during the build, the number of trades on-site and the likely impacts on costs to your home. As all available SIPS systems call for a similar installation method, we'll start with the panel installed.

Orientated Strand Board

After panel installation the whole exterior to the building is wrapped in a weather barrier to repel any water. Steel top hat sections or battens installed, the outer cladding is applied, joints are taped and flush sealed and finish applied. Internally, the panels are lined with plasterboard, joints are taped and flush sealed and the finish applied.

Important Note:
If moderate to heavy rains are forecast, panel tops must be covered with plastic and securely fixed.

SipForm Fibre Cement

External and internal joints are taped and flush sealed and the finish applied. If using Weathertex externally, the paint finish is simply just applied.

Important Note:
If moderate to heavy rains are forecast, go home!

When using SipForm, the benefits speak for themselves. You save time during the build, save money, plus you have little issue with rain during the build and recovery after flooding.

Modular Home FAQ's

How different is modular building to traditional construction?

Panels that make up the envelope to your home are factory manufactured and delivered direct to your site. The floor, walls and roof are produced to millimetre accuracy, your home can be assembled within days and weeks rather than months.

How long does it take to build modular?

The envelope to your home can be built in as little as 6 weeks.

Can I save going modular instead of brick?

Yes you can save about 10–20%. The savings result from the shorter time to build so you can save on holding costs.

Are modular homes of better quality than conventional homes?

Homes built from Structural Insulated Panels are more efficient and effective in providing a home with far greater living comfort.

What are the benefits of modular building over brick and mortar?

All panels are quality controlled and precisely built to tight tolerances, this results in no uneven walls and no gaps. By having only panels delivered when required, theft from site is dramatically reduced and homes are built quicker and at less cost.

Can panels be used on commercial buildings?

Yes, our panelised system lends itself to all forms of construction.

Are there size limitations when using SIPS?

Modular homes can be be as small 30sqm granny flat or they can be utilised to construct industrial sized warehouses.

From the ground up

From the ground up