We believe affordable, healthy and high performance homes built with straw is the revolution the building industry needs.
Our factory is based in Central Otago, near Alexandra and we have the ability to manufacture and deliver to anywhere in New Zealand. The heart of our factory is our custom made hydraulic straw panel press which is essential for building precise panels with well compressed straw. We are able to help with guidance and provide details and answers at any stage of the building process.
Stefan Warnaar, the founder of StrawSIPs has worked with rammed earth building in New Zealand and Austria, strawbale building, hempcrete and clay and lime plastering on dozens of different building types and home budgets up to $5+ million.
After working in the natural building industry and seeing the need for affordable, highly insulated, natural homes the idea to bring modular straw panels to NZ was put into action. StrawSIPs offers the ideal solution for anyone looking for an easy, efficient way to build with straw.
We can help.
Designing and Planning
We are happy to give you and your designer as much guidance and information as they need to design for our panel system.
Build panels for your project
If you just need the panels delivered and the rest will be handled by your builder (we provide easy to follow assembly instructions). This is also a great option for DIY builders.
Panel installation alongside your builder
We can help supervise and install the panels alongside your builder if desired.