All Insulation articles
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Features
The Insulation Solution for Rainscreen and Masonry Facades
Poltern Max Plus is a non-combustable stone wool insulation offering both thermal and acoustic benefits
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Technical
How to be cool: Tackling overheating in UK homes
Overheating in homes is set to become an increasingly urgent issue, especially in the capital, as global temperatures rise. With energy legislation demanding that buildings become ever more airtight, what is the best way for designers to respond?
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Technical
Oak Meadow Primary School by Architype
Passivhaus technology is creating an efficient, well-ventilated learning environment at Oak Meadow Primary School in Wolverhampton.
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Technical
Haringey Passiv Terrace retrofit by Anne Thorne Architects
Retrofit build works delivered an 80% cut in energy use to an Edwardian terraced house in London.
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Technical
BRE’s Victorian Terrace Retrofit project
PRP Architects’ refurbished stable block will be used to demonstrate how sustainable building and insulation products can be used for upgrading the UK’s existing housing stock
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Technical
Insulation solutions for Flimwell workshops by The Architecture Ensemble
Wood fibre and sheep’s wool insulation have been specified for a set of eight sustainable timber workshops that are being constructed in 20ha of ancient woodland in East Sussex.
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Technical
Vacuum insulation panels promise a thinner future
As buildings’ required insulation levels rise, vacuum insulation’s relative thinness could prove invaluable
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Technical
Uncorking the secrets of Dennis Sharp’s Bayford house
Cork insulation has been used in the Dennis Sharp Architects’ extension and refurbishment of this former Hertfordshire council house
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Technical
Aquifer thermal energy storage for London’s museum quarter
A radical programme to reduce CO2 emissions, developed by Fulcrum Consulting and the Natural History Museum, has been proposed for London’s museum heartland
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Technical
Home truths
Former accountant Carol Atkinson has built the UK’s first straw-bale holiday home in East Yorkshire, and is now leading courses on how to build with it.
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Technical
Monks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshire’s Douai Abbey
Architect David Richmond & Partners and structural engineer Price & Myers are creating a rammed earth wall using local soil for a new library and archive at Douai Abbey
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Technical
Cost-effective steel frame insulation
Natural Building Technologies has launched two new steel frame Pavaclad and Diffutherm systems to its wood fibreboard insulation range.
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Technical
Grow your own insulation
In the search for zero-carbon construction, architects are rediscovering the virtues of natural fibre insulation. An emerging favourite is hemp, a material not only able to match synthetic fibres, but also believed to absorb CO2 during its life.