Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP

Name: Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP
Brand: Ecológica Carmelo Inc.

Concrete panelUnclear if you can order itEcológica Carmelo Inc. ↗

The Carmelo SCIP, a concrete panel kit from Ecológica Carmelo Inc., has no published price and is engineered to 283 mph wind.

Ecológica Carmelo Inc. does not publish a snow load or a price for this model, so 62 percent of the fields we score are blank.

None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.

Completeness

38%

38 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Ecológica Carmelo Inc. published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.

The thing nobody else will tell you

This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.

Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.

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The Kit Home Finder Grade

Not ratedNot rated, which is the absence of a score rather than a bad one. We could not rate buyability or cost honesty, and a grade needs two of the three, so the materials and carbon tier score we do have stands on its own below. This says nothing about how the kit performs. A maker can publish an excellent wind and snow rating and still be unrateable here, because this grade measures whether you can buy it, whether the price is honest, and what it is made of.

Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.

What the maker publishes

Everything here came off Ecológica Carmelo Inc.'s own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.

Build type	Concrete panel
Structural system	Structural Concrete Insulated Panels manufactured by its subsidiary Gulf Concrete Technology Corporation; EPS core in steel mesh, concrete/mortar applied both faces
Finished size	Not published
Bedrooms	Not published
Bathrooms	Not published
Wall R value	36
Roof R value	15
Foundation types	Not published
Lead time	Not published
Delivers to	Not published
Country	Puerto Rico (US territory)
Build difficulty	Not published This maker publishes nothing about who erects it, and the structural system does not settle it either. Ask them who does the assembly, whether a crane is needed, and how many people for how long.

What the maker says it resists

Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.

Engineered wind speed	283 mph
Roof snow capability	Not published
Seismic	Stated to meet ASCE 7 and IBC Section 1613 earthquake resistance design requirements
Fire	Standard panels rated 1 hour; up to 4 hours with increased mortar thickness

Price

Not published

This maker publishes no price. That is the single most common gap in the Index, and it is the first thing to ask them.

What that number covers	Not published

What else we found

Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico. wall_r recorded as the published maximum ('R Values up to 36'); roof_r 15 is the stated minimum requirement met for roofs in tropical zones, not a tested panel value. The 283 mph figure is a lab wind-cycle claim ('exceeded lab test results... wind cycles of up to 283 miles per hour') and reads as marketing rather than a code rating. Florida Product Approval is named without a number; also states compliance with PR Building Code 2018. Corporate parent of Structural Panels GCT - group them.

Questions to send this maker

Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.

Can I place an order for this model today, and what is the deposit?
What does this cost, in dollars, and exactly which build stages does that number cover?
What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
What is the finished square footage of this model?
What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?
Which states will you deliver to, and which will you not?

Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 38 percent.

Questions people ask about the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP

Answered from what Ecológica Carmelo Inc. publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".

How much does the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP cost?

Ecológica Carmelo Inc. publishes no price for this model. Across the whole Index only about a third of makers publish a price in dollars at all.

What wind speed is the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP engineered to?

Ecológica Carmelo Inc. publishes 283 mph for this model. That is their design capability at the conditions they assume, not a rating of your house. Your required design wind speed depends on your address, your Risk Category and your Exposure Category.

What snow load can the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP roof take?

Ecológica Carmelo Inc. does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.

Can you actually buy the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP?

We could not establish whether Ecológica Carmelo Inc. will take an order for this model today. A published render and a waitlist are not the same thing as a product you can buy.

What foundation does the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP need?

Ecológica Carmelo Inc. does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.

How well does the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?

The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, that is a 283 mph design wind speed.

Will the Ecológica Carmelo Inc. Carmelo SCIP work on my land?

Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Kit Home Finder runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.

Compare

Nothing here is ranked by what anyone pays us, because no kit maker has ever paid for placement on this site.

How it compares

It documents more than the average concrete panel kit, 38 percent against 16, and more than 117 of the other 122 we hold. Publishing a design wind speed puts it in the 10 percent of concrete panel makers that do.

Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 123 of them concrete panel. Recomputed on every build.

News, reviews and video

Gathered from outside this site and linked so you can check it yourself. None of it moves the Kit Home Finder Grade, and that is deliberate: the grade is computed only from what the maker publishes, so anyone can recompute it by hand. The grade tells you what they will tell you. This tells you what happened to people who bought one.

Video tours

Walkthroughs, build footage and factory tours

Structural Concrete Insulated Panels (SCIP) de Carmelo GroupInstituto Ingenieros Civiles PR

Learn about our Structural Concrete Insulated Panels System for your next construction projectEcológica Carmelo (their own channel)

SCIP Building System Explained: Energy-Efficient, Resilient Homes in Puerto RicoEcológica Carmelo (their own channel)

Let's Talk About SCIP Building SystemEcológica Carmelo (their own channel)

Let's talk about our SCIP Building System for resilient structures🏗 on June 27 at 2pmEcológica Carmelo (their own channel)

Sources

Where these values came from	https://www.carmelo.com/en/carmelo-structural-concrete-insulated-panels/
Maker's site	https://www.carmelo.com
Last checked	15 August 2026

Values are what the maker published on the date above. Makers change pages without notice. If you find something out of date, write to hello@octolithic.com and we will recheck it and re-cite it. Members can dispute any figure on the page, and the dispute and its resolution are both published.