(Nanowerk News) Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed a high performance plaster which boasts a thermal insulation value three-times ...

Q: Our 1920s bungalow has a small front closet that is punched out from the wall of the house so that the box of the closet extends past the exterior walls. This leaves the three walls and floor in ...

Q: My home was built in 1944, and even the new addition, a porch converted to a dining area about 20 years ago, has lath and plaster walls. Is there a way to insulate these walls? Also, would it be ...

Explore how insulation and plasterboard materials impact indoor air quality, embodied carbon and occupant wellbeing. This ...

Old buildings are beautiful -- and hard to insulate. Swiss engineers have developed a new Aerogel-based plaster that provides twice the insulation of currently used insulating renders. The product ...

Q: Is it a good or bad idea to insulate house walls if the exterior is brick and the interior is plaster? It’s been recommended that we insulate our walls. The house was built in the 1940s. The ...

Q. We have an 80-year-old home with lathe and plaster on the inside walls. The house is hard to heat in the winter and becomes very hot in the summer, so we want to add insulation. One contractor ...

The gatehouse of a building complex in Braunschweig’s Nord­stadt that is protected as ­a historic ensemble needed an ­energy upgrade by means of an ETICS system. The task at hand was to faithfully ...

Q I am hoping to help my son internally insulate the solid outer walls of his house with plasterboard-faced insulating board (Celotex or similar). How would one fix this to the wall? Could it be stuck ...

Dear Angie: Is it a good or bad idea to insulate house walls if the exterior is brick and the interior is plaster? It's been recommended that we insulate our walls. The house was built in the 1940s.