Improving the thermal comfort of industrial building using insulation materials

Abstract

industrial buildings are one of the larges used t worldwide, and every day it grows noticeably in many different forms of projects so , the introduction of insulation materials was very essential, and their development for enhancing a variety of parameters such as thermal comfort inside the building which became one of the very important aspects in industrial buildings. Design of any industrial building should be to the lowest cost keeping in consideration importance of thermal comfort and its contribution in the productivity improvement of the workers as well as the administrative employee as well as reducing the high costs of electricity bills that is consumed by the air-conditioning systems. And for these reasons, building materials have been improving to enhance thermal comfort inside the buildings and many insulation materials were introduced to contribute with that as well. One of these insulation materials is hemp and in fact, many associates consider it the best insulation building material ever made for its properties. Hemp comes from the hemp plant and hemp wool can be produced from the strong fibers of this plant. Hemp can be shaped in the form of blankets or boards, and both are used as environmentally friendly insulation materials. The positive part about this plant is that it can grow fast and on any type of soil worldwide. In 3 months of time, a hemp plant can reach to 4 meters, taking in a huge amount of CO2 that helps as well in purifying the air.