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Mass timber, wood-fiber insulation, nontoxic finishes, cast-iron plumbing, bird-safe windows and hundreds of solar panels. These are just some of the state-of-the-art, and sometime unique, elements that went into recently completed academic facilities designed to meet the world’s most rigorous standards for energy performance and sustainable construction techniques. College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor built the 29,000-square-foot Davis Center for Human Ecology to passive house standards with a goal of achieving at least 80% reduction in energy consumption versus comparable code-compliant ...

GO Lab had spent three years putting together a plan to produce wood fiber insulation at the former Madison paper mill. All that was left was to finalize financing for the $65 million startup cost. When the pandemic hit, it busted the deal. “It completely changed our dynamic for the rollout,” says Matt O’Malia, who founded the company with Josh Henry. Changed it in a way that was transformational. There are new investors, a marketing chief who’s putting the product on the national radar and a planned $100 million rollout. “We have a much better project now than we had before,” O�...

A year ago, companies were just starting to make their revised sales projections for the year. When the federal government quickly stepped in with the Paycheck Protection Program, the Small Business Administration and banks scrambled to figure out how to dispense the money. Businesses went into overdrive trying to figure out how to get loans. There were a lot of sleepless nights. In the first round of lending alone, some 28,000 Maine businesses received $2.3 billion in loans. For our cover story, Renee Cordes takes us behind the scenes to show what it was like as bankers and businesses tried ...

The company, which will produce insulation made from lumber manufacturing and timber management waste, is seeking the money to help get the Madison plant up and running, and welcomed a major piece of equipment from Germany last month.

Maine-based company ready to revitalize old paper mill with product new to North America In a former paper mill in Madison, GO Lab will produce its wood fiber insulation product for the first time in Maine and North America Author: Sam Rogers (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 6:52 PM EST February 23, 2021 Updated: 8:24 PM EST February 23, 2021 SEARSPORT, Maine — It was delivery day for Maine-based GO Lab Tuesday. President Joshua Henry watched as cranes and trucks unloaded his company's equipment from a German cargo ship at Mack Point in Searspor...