When I first started to work from home, it was from the dining room table. That served me for about two years, until my needs for more space meant, that I needed to look elsewhere for a space to work from. With winter due I had just about given up on the thought of an Office in the Garden, until I came across SIPs, an acronym for Structural Insulated Panels, where an internal core of insulating material such as polystyrene is bonded to external sheathing materials such as plywood and used in Garden Offices to make them insulated.
Currently more than 5% of houses in the USA and an increasing number throughout the UK and Europe are constructed from polystyrene SIPs. Although the materials themselves are not considered to be strong individually, when bonded together they become extremely strong and form the main load bearing elements of any Garden Offices that use them in their structure.
The Insulation capacity is one of the great advantages of SIPs as they provide a better overall air tightness and greater practical thermal performance than conventional timber-framed walls. Thermal Insulation resists the flow of heat by slowing the passage of heat. Heat, a form of energy always travels from hot to cold
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