For decades, builders treated insulation as something that lived inside wall cavities, tucked between the studs. That approach quietly accepts a major flaw: the studs themselves conduct heat around the insulation. Continuous exterior insulation, usually in the form of rigid foam boards applied over the sheathing, solves this problem by wrapping the entire structure in […]

As the building industry confronts its environmental footprint, insulation is receiving fresh scrutiny. The materials we use to save operational energy carry their own embodied impacts, the emissions and resources consumed to manufacture and transport them. A growing family of sustainable and natural insulation products promises good thermal performance with a lighter environmental burden, often […]