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by foroak 898 days ago
In a stick frame building, everything still gets clad with sheathing (plywood) and subfloor (thicker tongue and groove plywood).

Structural insulated panels (plywood/foam sandwiches) have been around since the 70s. They're a useful building technology.

There's no way they can provide an equivalent amount of product to a SIP cheaper. They're operating at small scale, and CNC machining everything which is expensive. The math ain't mathin'.