OUR STORY
FieldWorks Panels is on a mission. Helping Families & Businesses Around the Globe Bring Quality Homes & Buildings to Life in Half the Time, while Ensuring a Green & Sustainable Process with Composite-Structural Insulation Panels.
ABOUT FIELDWORKS PANELS
FieldWorks Panels is a division of Perastic, LLC, a Delaware materials innovation company founded in 2004. In January 2018, Perastic embarked on a journey to manufacture Composite-Structural Insulated Panels made with LitePan® technology. After building a relationship & partnership with Axia Materials Co. of South Korea, FieldWorks Panels is manufacturing C-SIP panels, by affixing LiteTex® skins on either side of an insulating core. FieldWorks Panels currently operates a pilot plant in Newark, Delaware in the United States; supplying C-SIP panels to a growing list of customers & working to help rebuild affected communities by natural disasters.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SIPS
The Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, introduced the idea of what is now known as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) in 1935. The Laboratory’s prototype panels consisted of framing members, plywood and hardboard sheathing, and insulation. These initial panels were used to build test homes that were disassembled and tested after 30 years to reveal that the panels retained their initial strength values. Frank Lloyd Wright used a form of SIPs in the Usonian homes built in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1952, Alden B. Dow created the first foam core SIPs, which were being mass-produced by the 1960s.
“SIPs are pretty cool building technology from a construction and resource conservation perspective and from a long-term energy-conservation perspective.” —Architect Toby Long, AIA
Today, SIPs are prefabricated building components for use as walls, floors, roofs, and foundations. They are typically manufactured using a foam insulating board core with oriented strand board (OSB) skins. The maximum size for a jumbo SIP panel is usually 8′ x 24′ with weight being a limiting factor to handling and installation. SIPs provide a value benefit during construction in comparison to traditional building techniques in that much of the labor required to assemble traditional building materials in the field has already been incorporated into the SIPs by workers acting more efficiently in a factory.
THE DIFFERENCE AND ADVANTAGE OF LITEPAN® C‐SIPS
LitePan® C-SIPs offer additional advantages over traditional SIPs. These include a drastic reduction in weight, which allows for larger elements that reduce the number of joints in the structure. Thermal and air leaks are virtually eliminated as an inherent feature of LitePan® construction. A thermally sealed and airtight envelope is a prerequisite to achieve DOE Zero Energy Ready Home status. These measures increase the effective R-value of the structure which reduces the expenditure of energy to achieve a comfortable interior environment.
