If your floors stay icy even when the heat’s running, it’s not just the weather’s fault. Cold floors usually mean your house ...

Annual energy bills go up, and most of the cost literally escapes through walls, windows, and spaces you can’t even see.

Kraken Bond, a leading manufacturer of high-performance chemical solutions for construction and industrial sectors, is ...

Two government schemes aimed at cutting energy use by insulating homes were botched on a vast scale, a spending watchdog has found, leaving tens of thousands of homes in need of remedial work.

The property industry has called for urgent government action after a National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed that almost all homes fitted with external wall insulation under the Government’s ...

Owens Corning cut the ribbon on its state-of-the-art, insulation-manufacturing plant in Russellville on Tuesday. The 150,000-square-foot factory will produce the building-products company’s Foamular® ...

Tens of thousands of households have been left with faulty insulation that could cause damp and mould, after Government failures in the design and oversight of its flagship home energy efficiency ...

A government-backed scheme to fit homes with external wall insulation has left thousands of households worse off as they face damp, mould and other serious health hazards, the spending watchdog has ...

Almost all homes fitted with external wall insulation under a flagship scheme need major issues fixing, the government spending watchdog has found. Poor quality installations, inadequate monitoring ...

The spending watchdog warned that ‘clear failures’ in the ECO scheme led to poor-quality installations, health and safety risks and suspected fraud. The scheme aimed to improve home energy efficiency ...

Abstract: This manuscript critically reviews recent research on electrical insulation materials and systems used in power electronics devices and focuses on electrical treeing in silicone gel, PD ...