Technology
Non-traditional structural materials are gaining favor
Don Ferrier is your customer, even though he doesn't buy the bulk of his framing lumber from you anymore. In fact, except for what he needs for interior walls, Ferrier doesn't buy framing lumber at all. For the envelopes of the half-dozen custom homes he builds every year in the Fort Worth, Texas, area, he uses structural insulated panels (SIPs). And he's not the only one.
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