Commercial

Light commercial SIP applications such as fast food restaurants, stand alone restaurants, strip shopping centers, and warehouses benefit from lower utility costs. SIPs can be used as a "skin" applied to steel framing.

A tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot is available to owners (or designers, in the case of government-owned buildings) of new or existing commercial buildings. To qualify owners must emonstration that the building was constructed or reconstructed to save at least 50% of the heating, cooling, water heating, and interior lighting energy cost that meet ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2001.