Building envelope insulation is crucial for an energy-efficient and comfortable indoor
environment because the envelope accounts for 50–60% of total heat gain/loss in a …

Approximately half of the annual global energy supply is consumed in constructing,
operating, and maintaining buildings. Because most of this energy comes from fossil fuels, it …

The building industry uses great quantities of raw materials that also involve high energy
consumption. Choosing materials with high content in embodied energy entails an initial …

The construction industry is one of the less sustainable activities on the planet, constituting
40% of the total energy demand and approximately 44% of the total material use and the …

Energy conservation is an increasingly important issue for the residential sector. Therefore,
attention towards the thermal performance of building materials, particularly thermal …

Insulation is a relevant technical solution for cutting energy consumption in buildings. The
aim of this paper is to evaluate the environmental impacts and the consumption of …

In the development of next‐generation materials with enhanced thermal properties,
biological systems in nature provide many examples that have exceptional structural …

The need for the selection of an appropriate insulation is becoming more important as
environmental problems continue to grow. This paper investigates insulation performance in …

The building industry has consumed a vast amount of natural resources and also been
responsible for a significant energy usage. This is expected to increase further with …

More than sixty environmental product declarations of insulation materials (glass wool,
mineral wool, expanded polystyrene, extruded polystyrene, polyurethane, foam glass and …