What We Build
SIPs work for any type of Class IV and V construction — houses, barndominiums, commercial buildings, shops, and small structures.
The building system is the same every time. Your panels show up pre-cut to your plans, engineered and stamped by a licensed PE, and ready to assemble.
That means whether you're building a 300-square-foot cabin or a 5,000-square-foot custom home, the process doesn't change.
The shell goes up in days. The envelope is airtight from day one. And because every project is engineered to your specific plans and local load requirements, you're not buying a kit off a shelf and hoping it works — you're getting a building system designed for your build, your site, and your climate.
We work with owner-builders doing it themselves, general contractors running crews, and developers putting up multiple units.
The conversation always starts the same way — send us your plans or your ideas, and we'll show you what SIPs can do with them.
Custom Homes
Whether you're building your own home or you're a contractor putting up houses for clients, a SIP envelope changes the whole equation. The shell goes up in days instead of weeks.
The energy performance is built in — not added on with spray foam and crossed fingers.
Every project is engineered to your plans and your local load requirements.
You're not buying a kit and hoping it works.
You're getting a building system designed for your specific build.
Barndominiums
Barndominiums are the fastest-growing segment we see, and most of them are being built the hard way. The typical approach is to put up a steel building or pole barn structure, spray foam the inside of it, then build stud walls on the interior to hang drywall on. Think about that — you're basically building two structures to get one house. You're paying for the steel or the poles, then paying again for framing, then paying again for insulation. Three steps to do what SIPs do in one.
A SIP barndominium goes up as a single building system. The panels are your framing, your insulation, and your exterior sheathing — all in one piece. No steel building underneath. No spray foam. No interior stud walls just to have something to finish against. One step, and you're dried in.
With the tall walls that barndominiums are known for, structural strength matters. SIP panels handle that. They carry vertical and lateral loads that would require serious engineering in a stick-framed wall — high wind zones, heavy snow loads, the kind of conditions that make a tall stud wall a liability. And on the roof, our large-format panels span long distances without the complexity of conventional truss and purlin systems.
The result is a building that looks like a barndominium on the outside but performs like a high-end custom home on the inside — tight envelope, real R-values, and an HVAC system that doesn't have to fight the building every day of its life.
Cabins
Some of our favorite builds are the small ones — cabins, guest houses, lake houses, rental properties. SIPs make small builds simple because the system scales down without losing any of the performance. You still get the airtight envelope, the real R-values, and the engineering. You just get it in a smaller package.
A SIP cabin shell goes up fast — we're talking days, not weeks — and because the panels handle framing, insulation, and sheathing in one step, there are fewer trades on site and less to coordinate. For owner-builders doing the work themselves, that simplicity is the whole point. You don't need a ten-man framing crew. You need a plan, a forklift, and a weekend."
Commercial
Apex SIPs aren't just for houses.
We build panels for offices, retail, multi-family, worship spaces, agricultural buildings, and light industrial. The advantages that make SIPs better for residential construction get even more pronounced on commercial projects, where every day on the schedule costs real money.
A commercial SIP envelope dries in fast, which means your interior trades get started sooner and the project stays on schedule. The energy performance carries over too — lower operating costs for the life of the building, smaller mechanical systems, and an envelope that meets the toughest commercial energy code requirements without bolt-on solutions.
Our panels are rated for high wind and seismic zones and engineered for the specific load requirements of your project. Every commercial build gets full PE-stamped engineering, just like our residential work. Whether it's a 2,000-square-foot office or a 20,000-square-foot multi-use building, the process is the same — send us your plans, and we'll engineer a panel package to fit."
Ready to talk about your project? Call us at 918-984-1717 or email info@apexsips.com
