subject: Why Should You Opt For Low-e Insulation For Your House? [print this page] The need to create a better environment for our generation and the next has never been higher. Whether as individuals or as organizations, we need to do our bit to ensure that natural resources are maintained for the use of future generations. Many companies have made a corporate pledge to reduce energy consumption, and in turn their carbon footprint, some driven more by the increasing energy costs and the impact it has on their profits. Lowering your CO2 emissions and your buildings carbon footprint is easier now with the latest generation of high performance, low emissivity thermal insulation, which will surely bring in positive returns on your investment, and also help our environment and save you money spent on fuel bills.
Building insulation may be incorporated in the construction of your house for a variety of reasons. There are innumerable advantages in getting passive house insulation in place during the construction of your home or office building. Primarily it is associated with thermal insulation, but there are other reasons such as sound proofing, vibration transmission, fire protection and impact damages and more. Even among thermal insulation there are a lot of options to choose from. This article aims to tell you about low-e insulation.
Thermal insulation refers to the blocking of the heat traveling between objects. Heat generally moves by conduction, convection, and/or radiation. The amount of heat movement can be reduced basically by blocking or delaying the heat movement. The low-e thermal insulation is a highly effective thermal insulator based on the radiant-heat-insulating principle of aluminum, which has a high reflection ratio against heat absorption and a low reflective ratio against heat emission, and on the heat-conductivity and convection-insulating principle of volume thermal insulators.
Volume thermal insulators like extrusion or bead based thermal insulating panels use the insulating material's low conduction ratio to delay the heat movement by conduction or convection, whereas reflective thermal insulators use the principle of reflection and emission, by which radiant heat is blocked. In other words, this is radiant barrier insulation. The low-e thermal insulator is a highly functional thermal insulator that blocks all the heat transmitted via conduction, convection, or radiation. It uses the principle governing the reflective thermal insulator and is made up of highly pure aluminum sheets. These aluminum sheets have a low thermal emission rate. Moreover they do not emit radiant heat, which moves in the infrared-ray state to the air layer inside the insulator. It also functions as a volume thermal insulator in that it blocks the heat in the air emanating from conduction or convection.
A well insulated home or office will not just mean a smaller carbon footprint but also ensure that you will not have to spend a fortune on maintaining the temperature of your building, but can redirect those funds to better options like your kids education or a better standard of living.
If you are planning to construct any building, be it a residence or a school or office, please check: http://eng.low-e.co.kr and make sure you opt for low-e insulation.
