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Redman Homes, a subsidiary of Champion
Enterprises, is located in Silverton, Oregon and hosted the construction
phase of the SIP manufactured home project. |
Champion Enterprises, the largest homebuilder in the world,
is planning on adding SIP construction to its "Best of Class" series
of manufactured homes. |
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Industrial partners
in the project include (from left) Tim Costner and Mike Bryan of
Premier Building Systems, Ted Shearer of Precision Panel Structures,
and Ron Sparkman of Champion Enterprises. Premier and Precision
are cooperating to provide SIPs, hardware, and expertise to the
project. The SIPs manufactured home will be built at Champion. s
factory in Silverton, OR at the Champion-Redman facility. This meeting
took place at the Champion-Redman factory. |
Michael
Baechler of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory investigates the
thermal pane, vinyl windows use in all of the Champion-Redman homes.
PNNL is working on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy to provide
technical expertise and coordination to the project. Photo
by Ron Sparkman of Champion. |
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| Mike
Bryan, General Manager of Premier Building Systems, surveys the
Champion. Redman factory floor to evaluate how SIPs can best be
introduced into the assembly line. |
Ted
Shearer (pointing) of Precision Panel Structures and Tim Costner
of Premier Building Systems discuss how an overhead crane in the
Champion-Redman plant may be used to position a SIPs roof assembly.
Mike Bryan of Premier is in the background. |
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Ron
Sparkman, (left) of Champion Enterprises, Ted Costner of Premier
Building Systems, and Ted Shearer of Precision Panel Structures
look over the roof assembly station at the Champion-Redman factory.
This will be one of the most challenging stations to adapt for SIPs
construction. |
Ted Shearer
of Precision Panel Structures investigates the wiring on a Champion-Redman
home. Champion-Redman currently builds wiring chases into their
structure. Using SIPs will require the wiring chases to be reengineered. |
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Tim
Costner (left) of Premier Building Systems, and Ron Sparkman of
Champion Enterprises make sure that mastic used in the factory is
compatible with expanded polystyrene foam used in SIPs. Ted Shearer
of Precision Panel Structures is in the background. |
