Shop build - SIPs walls and other framing

As previously stated we are using SIPs for the walls.  These are prefab panels that are made with a skin of OSB on either side of a block of foam, all glued together.  It is actually a very strong structure (much more than regular framing) and is very airtight and highly insulated.  If you are curious to learn more, you can look here: http://www.sips.org/

I hired a local builder, Roger, who is very big into high efficiency houses and who uses SIPs all the time to handle the main framing work.  They started on July 8, and after Day 1 of getting set up and going they had this much of the walls raised:

After Day 3, they were done with outer walls :

Then they did roof trusses in 2 or 3 days:

And then, after laying down the roof sheathing too (no pic), I got a roofing crew to bang out the roof in a day:

I don't have any good pics of the final roof, but it came out nice.

Then we finally had a dry place to work inside!

Before the roof went on I installed the meter socket and main panel to try and get electrical service going, but the utility was long on promises and poor on delivering.  It took them 2 weeks for something they kept telling me "tomorrow" on.  The best part was when the crew finally showed up, barely worked, stood around gabbing half the day and had to come back the next day.  Then they sat in their trucks and took naps before starting on the second day!  What a work ethic...

Due to the distance from the road, they had to add a transformer close to the shop (when they finally showed up and did something...)

I also had Roger do the soffit and fascia and Tyvek, as those jobs really take more than one person to do reasonably.  Here is the soffit color - a dark maroon called Brandywine.

And you can see the waterproofing on the uphill wall that will be slightly buried with dirt, once backfilling is complete.  The structure was designed for this.

No pictures of electric work that I did (not much to see of it either), but here is putting up the vapor barrier prior to starting drywall (this was just last weekend -  Aug 11 2013)

And the garage doors just got installed today too (8/15/13)

Drywall will be starting on the shop this weekend, and the house is starting to progress also, which I will cover separately.  More to come on the shop as it progresses over the next few weeks too.