Thermal performance of sculptured tiles for building envelopes

Life-Cycle Assessment of Sculptured Tiles for Building Envelopes in Mediterranean Climate

“…Five groups of sculptured cement mortar tiles: fur (F), cavities (CV), bumps (B), cacti (CC), and sponges (S) (Figure 1), with their material volumes and U-values (Table 1), were adopted from the study of Hershcovich et al [9].…”

“…However, as noted earlier, different fuel sources can lead to different OE stage results [5]. Moreover, the P stage (which can be significant due to the excess amount of material used to make sculptured tiles) was not considered by Hershcovich et al [9].…”

“…Hershcovich et al [9] have recently proposed a new building envelope geometry based on the idea that the organization of material in a given space can improve the thermal performance of buildings. They studied sculptured tile thermal insulation technology for building envelopes.…”

“…Therefore, the study aimed to compare sculptured tiles proposed by Hershcovich et al [9] to typical flat tiles using LCA. To achieve this goal, we modeled a typical residential building in the hot Mediterranean climate of Tel Aviv, the building envelope of which is faced with flat or sculptured tiles.…”

“…Flat tiles (0.025 × 0.1 × 0.1 m 3 ) and sculptured tiles (0.075 × 0.1 × 0.1 m 3 ): material volume and overall heat transfer coefficients (U-values) (based on Hershcovich et al[9]). …”