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Hi,
I'm doing a group investigation on external wall insulation for my school building. The walls do not have a cavity and thus it has been proposed to put insulation over the exterior render of the wall.
This is a fairly common building procedure.
However, my task is to investigate the plausibility of using recycled materials as insulation and once I have decided what to use, I will need to calculate the thermal conductivity.
My proposal is to use a mixture of supermarket plastic bags and other mixed recycled packing plastics, stuffed between the exterior of the existing wall and a new exterior wooden cladding.
With only standard school equipment, how could I measure the thermal conductivity of my custom insulation in order to numerically compare it with existing insulations?
I'm doing a group investigation on external wall insulation for my school building. The walls do not have a cavity and thus it has been proposed to put insulation over the exterior render of the wall.
This is a fairly common building procedure.
However, my task is to investigate the plausibility of using recycled materials as insulation and once I have decided what to use, I will need to calculate the thermal conductivity.
My proposal is to use a mixture of supermarket plastic bags and other mixed recycled packing plastics, stuffed between the exterior of the existing wall and a new exterior wooden cladding.
With only standard school equipment, how could I measure the thermal conductivity of my custom insulation in order to numerically compare it with existing insulations?