Project Olive Leaf Hills Mill – Sebastopol, CA
Brook Haven, owner of Olive Leaf Hills Mill had this to say about the SCIP (3D Structural) Panels.
I think SCIP-3D panels are really the wave of the future. I don’t know why they aren’t used more. I found out about them, I used to be into the Insulated Concrete Forms panels, ICF’s, but the civil engineer for that project that we built told me about the SCIP-3D Panels. I was hooked the moment I heard about it. It’s insulated, and its thermal mass qualities are amazing the way it sandwiches in the insulation in between the thermal mass on the inside and outside. I am a huge fan and I think that it really, I don’t know why it’s not used more.
It wasn’t really that much more than stick frame and it has amazing qualities: it’s fire proof, it’s rodent proof, mold proof and you know it’s seismic and fine for earthquakes. It’s just great. You’re kind of talking to someone who is a huge fan of SCIP-3D panels and you’re welcome to come out and take a look at our building there. I’ll have the plans all laid out in the middle of the processing facility. It has the name of the mechanical/civil engineer who told me about it and who did all the mechanical for it. It was a firm out of Santa Rosa, that I can’t remember the name of, that told me about it that we used for the mechanical engineering. Anyways, it’s amazing.
I love SCIP-3D panels. It was a fun thing the way it was done, and I think it’s amazing and it gives a real old-world look. It’s great for the kind of Tuscan/European renaissance that’s going on in California. It’s great for that, perfect for that. It gives you those nice thick walls.
