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Wool Insulation is Kid Friendly
Havelock Wool is changing the green building environment with their wool insulation that toddlers can snuggle. Havelock Wool is environmentally friendly and made completely out of New Zealand sheep wo...
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How-To: Insulating Your Van
Van Insulation Connect With The Havelock Flock Insulation in a van is a bit more complicated than insulation in a house. For one, a van moves, bounces and vibrates. A...
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Sheep’s Wool Insulation is Sustainable
Wool insulation, made from the remnants of sheering sheep, is increasingly finding its way into commercial and residential buildings across the world, in countries like New Zealand, Scandinavia and ev...
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CNBC – We Are In A Small Business Hot Spot
Andrew Legge, founder and managing partner of Havelock Wool, which makes home insulation out of sheep’s wool, produces it in a 50,000-square-foot factory in Sparks, Nevada. He found that the...
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Sheep’s Wool Insulation in Uber-Eco Camper
from Modern Camper It wasn’t long ago when nomads were roaming North America with nothing but the skin they could catch on their back. Same with their huts. Mud, sticks...
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A dumb home needs a Smart Wall
A But designing the walls for a dumb home is not as simple as simply adding insulation; you have to be smart about managing moisture and condensation. You want to...
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Sheep’s Wool: RV Insulation Of The Future?
When Kirkland, Wash.-based teardrop trailer manufacturer Homegrown Trailers wanted to boost the sustainability of its building materials, the RV maker did something innovative – it used sheep’s wool f...
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Smart Walls start with a Smart Insulation System
Archigram’s A Walking City, 1964: boundless energy & engineering anyone? For thousands of years buildings were made with a keen regard for nature and historically building science was intimately a...
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Sheep’s wool insulation provides pollutant remediation
Translated from airwool.com Increasing requirements for “low – emission buildings” (various building certificates with defined room air quality, especially with regard to VOCs and formaldehyde ) – but...
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Building Technology Uses Wool for Better Health
FORGET WALLS THAT TALK; BRING ON WALLS THAT BREATHE SAN FRANCISCO (April 11, 2017) — People are smart, and people breathe, but most of us wouldn’t think the same of...
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Kirkland Camper Finds Eco-Friendly Solution
A Kirkland camper manufacturer has signed an agreement with Havelock Wool to insulate all of its eco-friendly trailers with sheep’s wool instead of foam board. The partnership comes after Homegrown...
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Smart Wall Manifesto
The problem in today’s building materials market is not only large manufacturers, but consumer’s continually shocking inability to ask basic questions. By making low integrity products manufacturers h...
