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The short life of the "Insulation Failures Alliance"

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This blog post is entirely based on publicly available information. In an apparent 'road to Damascus conversion' Neil Marshall Chief Executive at National Insulation Association (NIA) set up a twitter account @cavityInsulat1 in late July 2019 and proceeded to express concern about mass failures in CWI. He claimed to be involving 'key stakeholders' and calling for a national survey of the the problem similar in scope to the NIHE report which I've previously summarised  here . Marshall initally presented himself as "CIEA" I understand that he made contact and with installers, CIVALLI, BRE and government departments with the stated goal of creating an alliance to set standards for extraction of insulation. [cavity extraction is unregulated]. I don't think anyone ever took his efforts seriously as the 'association' changed names at least 3 times that I'm aware of - broadening in scope each time with the last moniker being "In