Sustainable earth walls to meet the building regulations

Goodhew, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-1227-217X and Griffiths, R., 2005. Sustainable earth walls to meet the building regulations. Energy and Buildings, 37 (5), pp. 451-459.

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Abstract

The thermal conductivity and diffusivity of un-fired clay bricks, a straw clay mixture and straw bales have been measured using a thermal probe technique, with an iterative method for data analysis. The steady-state air-to-air thermal transmittance, or U-value, and the time-dependent thermal properties of some proposed sustainable earth wall constructions are presented. Sustainable cavity walls of un-fired clay bricks with paper, straw or wool cavity insulation have thermal transmittances less than 0.35 W/m2 K, and therefore meet the current United Kingdom Building Regulations. A review of possible methods for thermally up-grading existing earth walls, by adding an internal insulated timber frame construction, again demonstrates possible compliance with the current UK thermal regulations.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Energy and Buildings
Creators:	Goodhew, S. and Griffiths, R.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	2005
Volume:	37
Number:	5
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.enbuild.2004.08.005 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 11:08
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:50
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23408

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