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Hourglass Skyscraper Shapes Up Thanks To ROCKWOOL
By ROCKWOOL. Complex skyscraper design wins awards using ROCKWOOL insulation. The Absolute World skyscraper complex is made up of five towers in the Absolute City Centre located in Mississauga, Ontario. Absolute World 1&2, known as the condo couple, are two of the tallest skyscrapers built in a North American suburb. ...
A Guide to Building Information Modeling (BIM) and ROCKWOOL
By Cass Jacoby. The BIM – a future-friendly solution for better buildings and a more progressive built environment that is supported by ROCKWOOL Project management across the architecture, engineering and construction industries is a challenging feat. A single project can have so many complex, moving pieces with many levels of ...
Fire Protection and Metal Wall Insulation
By Heidi J. Ellsworth, RCS President In looking at the safety of any building, the walls are a defining point of protection. According to ROCKWOOL, a manufacturer of stone wool insulation, “Effective metal stud wall insulation can minimize the risk of fire spreading. This is especially important ...
Case Study: How This Building in New York Reduced Carbon
By ROCKWOOL. ROCKWOOL is helping reduce carbon one home at a time, providing energy retrofit solutions that meet ambitious carbon reduction goals. The Climate Mobilization Act of 2019 includes legislation that mandates buildings larger than 25,000 square feet in New York to aggressively cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. ...
This Stone Wool Insulation Factory Helped Shorten Lead Times
By ROCKWOOL. ROCKWOOL attributes their shortened lead times to the opening of their factory in West Virginia. As the demand for our stone wool insulation products continue to increase in the North American market, in 2021 we at ROCKWOOL decided to expand our production with a new manufacturing facility. ...
This Canadian Multi-family Apartment was Rehabilitated to be More Efficient
By ROCKWOOL. The Ken Soble Tower project goal was to completely upgrade a post-war apartment to achieve Passive House standard, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by an impressive 94%. The Ken Soble Tower is exemplary of the way that low-energy retrofits are revolutionizing how we think about upgrading our buildings. Both ...
Why We Are All Ears for Proper Installation of Soundproofing Insulation
By Cass Jacoby. Building acoustics are worth thinking hard about! Join us for a conversation with a building engineer who inform us about a solution to mitigating sound: fibrous insulation Heidi J. Ellsworth visits with Antoine Habellion, the head of technical for ROCKWOOL North America in the RLW, All ...
Building for Fire Safety
By Heidi J. Ellsworth. With the number of fires across the country it seems to be a year-round concern. But late summer through fall is one of the worst times for wildfires. According to Fire Loss in the United States in 2018 NFPA.org, “In the United States, an ...
Study Shows This Stone-wool Insulation Has a Stable R-value
By ROCKWOOL. Research on a building that’s insulated with ROCKWOOL’s stone wool insulation finds its R-value is stable in cold and hot temperatures. Researchers performed a recent case study on the performance of ROCKWOOL’s stone wool insulation in the Chilliwack Building in British Columbia. The team from RDH Building Engineering ...
Insulation Increases University's Thermal Performance
By ROCKWOOL. Wayne State University installs ROCKWOOL’s bitumen coated stone wool insulation to increase long-term thermal performance of the roof assembly. The roofs of a number of Wayne State University’s buildings on campus were leaking. The research institution that boasts nearly 32,000 students had discovered they would need to re-roof or re-cover ...
