Engineers harness the power of fungi to break down engineered wood products and create bio-composites with insulating properties.

A common fungus can break down hard-to-recycle construction waste and turn it into sustainable insulation that rivals traditional and petrochemical-based options,

“One of the biggest challenges in construction is what happens to materials at the end of their life.

“ the fungus [is] doing two jobs at once; creating a sustainable insulation material and transforming challenging, and potentially harmful, waste into something valuable.”