SIP Haus Mission

Our mission is to realise low cost and sustainable housing solutions by identifying and integrating advanced, global building systems that can impact the Perth market and lower housing costs.

To ensure SIP Haus is bringing the best possible capability to our clients, we've invested heavily in the challenge of prefabrication. Things made inside go down in cost while things made outside go up in cost! So our goal is to move construction into the factory by prefabricating.
Already, our panels are ready-to-assemble, meaning each one is cut to size and fitted with the timber needed to connect it to the next one.  To do more in the factory means to:

• Assemble panels into walls
• Install windows into those walls
• Build kitchens and install onto walls
• Build full bathrooms

And then when its as ready as it can be, load the job for delivery. This is the approach we have developed during 2023 and 2024.

​In 2020, we participated in a feasibility study leading to a proposed Northern Australian Health Technology Enabling Centre – for the NT Department of Health. The foci in this study were remote, Indigenous and tropical. Subsequently, we developed a new way of putting up a small building, a Pop Cottage, that can deliver the essential components of health: a safe place to get a full nights rest;  sanitation; as well as food storage and preparation.
​The Pop Cottage solution is a building delivered in a container that unfolds on site into a little house. The aim of the Pop Cottage is to help those in remote areas with overcrowding in homes and hence facilitate better health. 
With the Pop Cottage, the entire building structure and fitout is prefabricated in the factory!

​Witchcliffe Ecovillage has defined advanced standards for sustainable building and development. SIP Haus is proud to have buildings under construction that meet these high standards. 

Compliances and Process

​Our comprehensive process at SIP Haus encompasses various critical steps to ensure the success of your building project.

1. Meeting local regulations for specific size and building location to secure council approval.
2. Engineering analysis conducted to verify the satisfaction of design standards.
3. Energy assessments to measures the energy required to keep the building comfortable all year round.

Our Team

Project Designer and Manager
Our project designer and manager will create drawings and designs as well as oversee the production, ordering of your building.
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Builder
We can work with your builder, or we can introduce a builder to you.

Energy Assessment
We've collaborated with different providers, but we particularly value the ability to engage in discussions and optimise the building process. Our last four energy assessments averaged over 8.5 stars.

Engineering
Through experience we are usually able to specify most of the design, only requiring a design check by an engineer.

Initial Site Plan and Initial Design
Sometimes we do this work for you, other times you may have these outlines in place, or some idea of them.

We also remain in touch with several highly experienced, semi-retired architects who are extremely capable in establishing the site plan and the overall floor plan arrangement. Its a "never-fail" approach, and always adds value far beyond its cost. 

All planning and design work means we must understand the context for the building:

• What is the site like now?
  
• What is the condition of various services?
• What has been learnt about local conditions?
• What is the best evidence based guidance for rebuilding?
• How do we elevate environmental considerations, control energy use, reduce costs?
  

We take the opporutnity to plan a site and building very seriously. Even if we have a plan that is right, it almost will never go through without further adjustments to recognise the site, the orientation and the client's needs.