TY - GEN
T1 - Thermal performance of a low-cost sustainable wall construction system
AU - Vohra, Arun
AU - Rosenfeld, Arthur H.
AU - McDiarmid, Michael D.
AU - Stovall, Therese K.
AU - Wilkes, Kenneth B.
AU - Desjarlais, André O.
AU - Kosny, Jan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1998 American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). All rights reserved.
PY - 1998/1/1
Y1 - 1998/1/1
N2 - Loose-fill pumice, fly ash, and sawdust have been used to construct insulated walls for retrofit or new construction of small residential buildings. Pumice in sandbags was demonstrated as exterior insulation for an existing adobe house in New Mexico. Such houses are rarely insulated because of the cost and difficulty of providing exterior insulation. Prototype stand-alone walls were also constructed using fly ash and sawdust blown into continuous polypropylene tubing, folded as it is filled to form the shape of the wall. Other materials could also be used. The construction requires no foundation or structural supports and only a small amount of lumber. These inexpensive techniques solve the problem of insulating solid-wall houses and constructing new houses without specialized equipment and skills, thereby saving energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and improving comfort for millions of people. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has received U.S. Patent #5,875,607 for “Low Cost Exterior Insulation Process and Structure.”
AB - Loose-fill pumice, fly ash, and sawdust have been used to construct insulated walls for retrofit or new construction of small residential buildings. Pumice in sandbags was demonstrated as exterior insulation for an existing adobe house in New Mexico. Such houses are rarely insulated because of the cost and difficulty of providing exterior insulation. Prototype stand-alone walls were also constructed using fly ash and sawdust blown into continuous polypropylene tubing, folded as it is filled to form the shape of the wall. Other materials could also be used. The construction requires no foundation or structural supports and only a small amount of lumber. These inexpensive techniques solve the problem of insulating solid-wall houses and constructing new houses without specialized equipment and skills, thereby saving energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and improving comfort for millions of people. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has received U.S. Patent #5,875,607 for “Low Cost Exterior Insulation Process and Structure.”
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103022829
T3 - Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings
BT - Buildings VII
PB - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
T2 - 7th International Conference on Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings 1998
Y2 - 6 December 1998 through 10 December 1998
ER -