Originally written: Nov 2004
This question is often asked implying that SIP friendly designs can be built at a very competitive cost compared to stick-built, and that SIP unfriendly designs can be built, but at a premium compared to standard stick-built construction.
I have to say that at least for me this has proven itself to be half true. We have built some extremely SIP friendly designs that have blown away stick framing schedules by orders of magnitude, but we have also completed some projects where the erection time was been bogged down considerably by some complex geometry. Let’s review friendly ones first….