Our System


Green Home Framing was organized to create automated manufacturing facilities in the gulf south to produce and market panelized walls and roofs for residential and commercial buildings. These products are constructed from rigid expanded polystyrene (EPS) panels which are four feet wide and of various lengths (roughly 8’ to 24’) and thicknesses (roughly 4” to 10”) and reinforced by 1 “ industry standard galvanized steel studs of various thicknesses and sizes (roughly 18 gauge to 24 gauge).


Our standard residential wall panels are 6” R24 insulation value. They are combined into pre-assembled sections in our facility. The roof panels are 7 1/2” thick with an R30 insulation value (other sizes available).

The finished building envelope has almost no air infiltration (which accounts for around 40% of heat loss in conventional wood frame panel construction). Structural strength is supplied by 20-gauge galvanized steel studs and tap and bottom steelbrackets.




Expanded Polystyrene (EPS)


EPS is familiar to most people from its applications in coffee cups, fast food containers, ice chests, and packing material. The insulating properties of EPS are extraordinary. One inch of EPS, molded at a density of one pound per cubic foot, provides an R value of 4.17 at 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The material is light-weight, moisture resistant and very strong. It is easily trimmed, milled and shaped. It has an extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion, so walls and roofing systems won’t expand and contract with temperature changes. It has an ignition point of at least 600 – 650 degrees (over 100 degrees higher than wood), and very low toxicity when burned (less than 10% of wood products). EPS has no nutritional value, and won’t support mold, mildew, termites and other typical household pests. It’s non-organic material; no wood products are used in its manufacture, and it contains no CFC’s or HCFC’s, so it’s environmentally friendly.


Green Home Framing has selected the EPS thicknesses of our walls and roofs in order to obtain the maximum Energy Star / Louisiana HERO qualifications and tax credits for the homeowner while at the same time mirroring as closely as possible the wall sizes being utilized by conventional wood framing practices.


According to the EPS Molders Association, EPS delivers R-value ranging from 3.60 to 4.20 per inch. It is the only rigid foam insulation that offers stable thermal resistance from the point of manufacture. Foam insulation is effective in buildings with space limitations and where higher R-values are needed. EPS rated at R-4 per inch of thickness can provide up to 2 times greater insulation than traditional insulating materials of the same thickness. Other rigid foam insulation materials require testing to determine their long-term thermal resistance (LTTR) which can add to product development costs and render a calculated ‘guess’ at the insulation’s performance over time. EPS does not have to conduct such tests because it does not experience thermal drift, meaning its R-value remains constant throughout the life of the building.