Among the innovative -- some might say weird -- products we’re trying out at our Dummerston farmhouse, none is more unusual than the expanded cork insulation we’re currently installing as a layer of ...

What do you do if you’re a builder and your client (that would be me) hands you a material that no one’s ever heard of, let alone installed in this country, and asks you to insulate his house with it?

There is nothing new about using cork as an insulating material; Fridtjof Nansen lined the Fram with a foot thick layer of the stuff, and almost got to the North Pole in it, while Amundsen used the ...

The equation balances, and the idea is obvious, so we wonder why on earth we never had this idea. We throw corks away by the dozen (daily, in my home) and then go out and buy insulating cork mats to ...

Spanish architectural firm Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos has built two sustainable homes, both featuring an impressive facade made from cork. Dubbed "Two Cork Houses," the homes are located ...

With its insulating properties and ability to be produced sustainably, cork can be a superb building material, as evidenced by projects like the Ecocubo. The Float by Rotterdam's Studio RAP is another ...

With gas and electricity prices rising dramatically, British homeowners are desperately seeking new solutions to minimise the burden and keep their energy bills manageable. But what are the options ...

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...

When tasked with reforming an existing home for an older couple looking to live out their retirement years in picturesque Algarve, Portugal, local firm Core Architects looked to make the structure as ...