The Swedish architect recognized the huge insulation potential of soap bubbles: air which does not move trapped in pockets. He tried to implement this idea to insulate windows and although he had some challenges, it worked remarkably well. Oddly enough, not much is known about the further implementation of soap bubble insulation in architecture. In the years after several companies in Europe, Canada and the United States tried to pilot this idea within horticulture, but they never succeeded in getting the concept to work on an industrial level.
Fast forward four decades to 2012 and the founders of BBBLS (pronounced: "bubbles") find out about these interesting soap bubbles characteristics, the Swedish architecture experiment and the first horticulture pilot projects. Because of their strong technical expertise, they quickly discovered why these first pilot projects had failed: the technology needed some thorough engineering; not only regarding soap bubble generation, but also on climate control and construction.
Following the design of a new soap bubble generator, they began to work on both improving greenhouse construction and the climate control system. From 2013 and onwards BBBLS pilot projects started to take form in Poland and Norway with support from universities, industrial partners and the EU. Slowly, the concept of an entirely reinvented Energy Saving Greenhouse was born! After many, many years of testing and prototypes, the first commercial BBBLS greenhouse was delivered to our launching customer Reklima in 2018.