Big Green: SIPS and Rain Screen vs. Barrier wall

[Charles Brown]

A ³value engineering² suggestion to use the structural face (LP Smart Side)
of a SIPS panel as the exterior face of wall.  Battens would be installed
over the SIPS joints.

I¹m a little uncomfortable with the idea of eliminating a rain screen veneer
furred out over felt paper over the face of SIPS, whether the veneer is
metal panel, fiber cement, brick, or other.  Any SIPS guru¹s out there
experienced with this type detail.  Note this is for a NC project where its
not unusual for thunderstorms to blow big drops of rain almost horizontal.

Thanks, CB

Charles Brown, AIA LEED AP
Brown Architecture Inc.
324 So. Wilmington Street - Box 117
Raleigh, North Carolina 27601
charles at brownarchitecture.net
919.803.3700

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