Wpływ materiałów budowlanych na efektywność energetyczną budynków w klimacie umiarkowanym i tropikalnym

Abstrakt

Global policy identifies the need to achieve climate neutrality, especially in the most energy-intensive sectors of the economy, as a key focus. Climate neutrality is closely linked to the reduction of energy demand and the use of materials and technologies with a low embedded carbon footprint. The economic sector with some of the highest energy intensity and CO2 emissions is construction. In the case of newly designed buildings, most countries have already implemented measures to reduce energy demand by introducing a near-zero energy building standard (nZEB standard). The problem is not only the new built but mostly existing building stock, which requires deep thermo-modernisation measures. These measures will reduce energy consumption in the building sector and thus reduce emissions of harmful gases into the atmosphere. In the article, the authors, using the example of two countries with different climates: Poland and Vietnam, they analysed in terms of embedded carbon footprint the available technologies dedicated to thermal modernisation measures.