Blog
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Does a vapor barrier belong in your home?
Vapor barriers are a common theme in our daily communique with the ever-increasing number of consumers who care and/or want to learn about the building envelope and its importance in...
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7 Green Insulation Types for New and Existing Buildings
From Buildings Magazine: There are plenty of alternatives out there, from natural materials to recycled ones. Companies like @ecovative, Havelock Wool and Knauf Insulation are already providing sustai...
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The Baaahs and The Bees
The cheeky title notwithstanding we are honored to participate in a new endeavor with the folks at Backyardhive.com . We suggest clicking the link to their site to learn more...
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A Palette for Architecture 2030
As proud members of the Embodied Carbon Network and the associated renewable materials taskforce we were asked to contribute to the 2030 Palette program for Architecture 2030. The following is...
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Smart Wall Enclosure Selected By Green Builder’s Editors as ‘Hot 50 Product’
From Green Builder Staff: As efficiency becomes more of a focal point in the building equation, greater emphasis is being placed on airtight structures. But airtight building envelopes create inherent...
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Havelock Wool Featured: How to Build an Eco-Friendly Campervan
From sustainablevanlife.com : Insulation This is something that we spent a lot of time researching on our first build. After a lot of reading, question asking and Youtube watching, we...
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Garbage In, Garbage In – Our Own Thoughts On Velux’s “The Indoor Generation”
We were recently heavily affected by a video produced by the Velux Group. Talk about leading from way ahead of the pack! From a personal perspective the mark left is...
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Wool Insulation vs. Ecobatt
Want to know why we are still such a small business? Disinformation. See below and PLEASE use your brain when making decisions. Intuitively there is nothing about this scenario that...
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A Happy Customer’s Review
We often get happy customers more than excited to tell us how much they love our wool insulation. What follows is a letter written by a happy couple living the...
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Is Common Sense Becoming More Common?
Michael Lewis has made a career out of learning, first hand, the inadequacies of the finance trade and subsequently spent decades narrating, exquisitely, on the continued shortcomings of an industry...
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A Mother’s Journey
A Mother’s Quest for Healthy Living When Havelock Wool was just a concept we spent countless hours in due diligence. Aside from modeling throughput and making best guesses towards feasibility...
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What is a Building Envelope?
This topic delves straight into the science of a building envelope. Not only does it divide the educated from the less so, but it truly defines those who care about...