Reports
Extended Plate & Beam Demonstration Home
Extended Plate & Beam Demonstration Home
This document is the final report for an Extended Plate and Beam (EP&B) demonstration home built in Cazenovia, NY in 2015 using panelized wall sections produced at a nearby manufacturing plant. Other documents provided as a result of this research project include an Energy Analysis (July 2016) and a Construction Guide (August 2016).
Home Innovation Research Labs previously studied the EP&B wall system for a 2014/2015 NYSERDA research project that included the following tasks:
- Construction Details
- Structural Testing
- Constructability Assessment
- Code Compliance
- Cost Effectiveness
Positive results from the 2014/2015 evaluation as well as moisture monitoring of the EP&B wall done in a parallel study in partnership with the Forest Products Research Lab indicated that a test home project was an appropriate next step in the development of the EP&B system.