The office building more than 3,000㎡ of the total floor area should be needed to improve the energy efficiency based on government's recommendation. In this study, the new composite panel with structural function is conducted to check the thermal conductivity for application of exterior wall. The thermal transmittance was calculated by dynamic analysis to consider the thickness of insulation only per locations based on design criteria. The simulation program for the analysis was used TRISCO Radcon module, which has a function of a steady-state 3-dimensional heat transfer analysis.

Eccentric axial load tests were carried out to investigate the structural performance of the SIP (Structural Insulation Panel), which is widely used as residential type in Europe and North America. Outside the country, design standards for SIP have been prepared and related research has been carried out variously. However, in Korea, the research on the performance of the structural insulation panel is very small, and the related standard is not provided. In this study, the eccentric axial load was applied after the opening was installed to utilize the structural insulation panel as the structural wall. The size of the test specimen was 1200 × 2400㎜. The number of test specimens was 6, and the size of the openings and the reinforcement method around the openings were used as variables.

This project is mainly related to evaluation of total energy consumption of low energy house, the exterior envelope of which was wholly composed of structural insulated panels(SIP). The U-value of applied SIP was in the range of 0.189 to 0.269W/㎡․K and the U-value of pair glass from 0.78 to 1.298W/㎡․K was applied for window dependent to its function respectively. For comparison of total energy performance, the energy simulation for pilot house was performed to compare with the control house having insulation criteria of Korean building regulation in 2009. Based on simulation of dynamic energy performance, the pilot house saved 48.3% of annual energy consumption while the control house in 2009 consumed as 85.7GJ/y. In case of heating, the result showed that the energy saving ratio amounted to 76.7%. For CO₂ emission, the pilot house diminished approximately 35.4% from 6,208.4kgCO₂ to 4,009.2kgCO₂. In payback period to early investment, it was analyzed the pilot house took 7.8 years, when the low energy house built by other insulation method with same thermal perfusion took 11.5 years. From this result, it is considered that the SIP is more effective, economic to Green Home application.

Structural insulated panels, structurally performed panels consisting of a plastic insulation bonded between two structural panel facings, are one of emerging products with a viewpoint of its energy and construction efficiencies. These components are applicable to fabricated wood structures. In Korea, there are few technical documents regulated structural performance and engineering criteria in domestic market. This study was conducted to identify fundamental performance of both monotonic load and quasi static cyclic load for SIPs in shear wall application. Static test results showed that maximum load was 44.3kN, allowable shear load was 6.1kN/m, shear stiffness was 1.23 M N/m, and ductility ratio was 3.6. Cyclic test was conducted by two kinds of specimens : single panel and double panels. Cyclic test results, which were equivalent to static test results, showed that maximum load was 45.42kN, allowable shear load was 6.3kN/m. Furthermore the accumulated energy dissipation capability for double panels was as 2.3 times as that for single panel. From performance of structural tests, it was recommended that the allowable shear load for panels was at least 6.1kN/m.

Structure Insulated Panel (SIP) is an wooden structure material with which structure and insulation functions are satisfied. Hence, it would be a cost-effective model to implement low energy house which has higher insulation and structure performance and which the wall thickness is able to be reduced. In this study, performance of thermal insulation and fire resistance were evaluated in order to verify applicability to low energy house. Fire resistance test is performed on vertical load bearing members for partitions, and the test results satisfy one hour of fire resistance condition according to KS F 2257. The members include two layers of fireproof gypsum board with thicknesses of 12.5mm attached to SIP. Thermal insulation performance is satisfied with the 2012 standard (0.225W/㎡·K). As the performance of resistance and thermal insulation are satisfied, SIP is expected to be applied to low energy building materials. In the future, the structural safety will be confirmed by structural performance and seismic performance test and the guidelines for distribution will be drawn up.

Structural insulated panels, which are structurally performed panels consisting of a plastic insulation bonded between two structural panel facings are one of emerging products with a viewpoint of its energy and construction efficiencies. These components are applicable to fabricated wood structures. By now, there are few technical documents regulated structural performance and engineering criteria in domestic market. This study was conducted to suggest fundamental reports such as racking resistance, axial capacity, transverse load capacity, and lintel load capacity for SIPs. Test results showed that maximum load was 44.3kN, allowable load was 14.7kN for racking resistance, and that maximum load was 137.6kN, allowable load was 37.4kN/m for axial compression capacity. For transverse load capacity, test results showed 10.3kN/㎡ of maximum load, 3.4kN/㎡ of allowable load. For lintel load capacity for SIPs dependent to lengths, allowable loads were 20.4kN for 600㎜ long lintel, 23.9kN for 1,200㎜ long lintel, 19.3kN for 1,800㎜ long lintel, and 2,400㎜ long lintel had 14.1kN of allowable load. In the near future, when the allowable load for wall application is established, SIPs is considered to substitute the existent post-and-lintel construction to bearing wall structure.