APEX SIPS
TULSA’S SIP MANUFACTURER AND MASTER BUILDER
40 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION AND PANEL MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE
About our Company
We have been building with SIPs since 1999, beginning with Timeframe homes wrapped with SIPs in the State of Maine.
Our founder John Pardue has traveled the globe manufacturing, building and teaching panelized construction.
John is an expert in SIPs, and has used nearly every conceivable material to make panels, including OSB, plywood, fiber cement, MGO and fiberglass composites.
Apex SIPs specializes in jumbo (8x24’) OSB faced SIPs.
Apex was founded to continue this journey of supplying energy efficient, disaster resistant and rapidly constructed buildings to the US market.
Our focus is local, but our reach is global, we have shipped our panels and built homes and commercial buildings all over the US and in several countries.
SIPs is the most efficient way to build, and our experience assures that our panels are made with the utmost quality.
Personalized service and attention to detail is our mantra, when you build with Apex, you are dealing directly with the company founder.
SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels)
SIPs are comprised of two structural facers (skins) permanently bonded with 21st. century adhesives to insulating foam cores.
Our SIPs are made in thicknesses to accommodate dimensional lumber, typically walls are 6 1/2” thick, with 5 1/2” foam cores (R-Value 25) and roofs are 10 1/4” thick with 9 1/4” foam cores (R-Value 40).
The foam core is EPS (expanded polystyrene), the cores are precisely hot wire cut into slabs, which are then bonded to large sheets (8 x 24’) of OSB (Oriented Strand Board) with nearly 100,000 pounds of pressure.
Our adhesive is a single component moisture cure polyurethane, formulated specifically for making structural panels. We apply the adhesive with an adhesive spreader and achieve 100 % surface coverage.
Our SIPs are airtight, non-conductive and have high R values, and drastically save on heating and cooling energy.
SIPs are 2-3 times stronger than stick-built construction, and pass Miami-Dade impact and wind ratings, and California Earthquake requirements.
SIPs can be used in any type of Class IV and V construction, including residential, commercial, multi-family and hospitality.
Exterior Building Envelope
SIPs are used for the exterior portion of buildings, primarily the walls and roof, and sometimes as the floor as well.
Our panels are precision cut in our Tulsa factory, and delivered to the jobsite ready to assemble (RTA).
Interior walls are typically stick-framed, like other structures.
SIPs include internal wire chases for easy electrical installation.