Propuesta de aplicación de ladrillos geopolimerizados para el mejoramiento de la envolvente térmica en edificaciones

Abstract

Abstract:Climate change and global warming are major global concerns caused by rapid industrialization, overuse of non-renewable natural resources and unsustainable development. Buildings consume more than 30% of primary energy to maintain their indoor temperature, which varies due to heating and cooling losses. (Rashid et al, 2018). Walls function as the thermal envelope of buildings and constitute the interface between the interior of the building and the exterior context, which is why they play an important role in energy performance (Illampas, 2017). Due to the evident changes in the planet and the new construction techniques, the need to create new energy efficient materials is evident in order to reduce the carbon footprint, taking advantage of construction waste as raw material. This research proposes to reuse the waste of one of the most used materials in construction worldwide, bricks, seeking to improve its thermal conductivity through the geopolymerization process in order to subsequently apply this material to a house and evaluate its performance in the thermal envelope.