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The devastating effects climate change is inflicting on the health of our planet has been making headlines for decades. Despite this environmental damage being extremely well publicized, the push for society to mitigate these impacts has only recently become evident in the way countries and their associated industries operate. The overexploitation of fossil fuels coupled with the rapid development of pollution plagued factories has been linked to the majority of the problems our natural world is currently facing. Methods and alternatives to replace these unsustainable processes are starting to come into effect across a number of different industries, all sharing a common goal of reducing both the energy demands and emissions associated with them.
The poor design and selection of materials used during the construction of homes and buildings stick out like a sore thumb in terms of the harmful impacts these can impose on the state of the environment. Most residential homes are developed with little environmental consideration and because of this, they are a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the pollution associated with a home comes from the energy that is used for heating or cooling its interior. This energy is normally derived from fossil fuels which have been well publicized as being one of the largest contributors to global climate change.
The Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change has already highlighted the energy demand associated with home and building thermal regulation as a major source of environmentally damaging emissions. Recent studies have estimated that approximately 12% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are linked to this steep power requirement with an even higher 17% emission rate if the amount of energy lost from a home or buildings due to their poor design is accounted for. One of the most effective methods to reduce both emissions and costs associated with interior temperature regulation is to increase the effectiveness and thermal resistance of a building’s insulation.
A material’s thermal resistance reflects its ability to restrict the flow of heat through it. Thermal resistance can also be considered as the reciprocal of thermal conductivity, a common measurement for describing the heat distributing potential of a given object or material. The insulatio