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energy efficient

Energy Efficient

The thermal performance of Euroblock eliminates the need for additional insulation, reducing heating and cooling costs while providing a comfortable living environment around the clock.

Healthy living starts at home

We spend 80-90% of our lives indoors; indoor air quality, comfort, energy consumption and noise all affect our general well being.

Euroblock buildings are renowned for being very energy efficient due to the combination of a high R-value, thermal mass, and air-tightness. The reduced heating and cooling requirements allow for greater temperature and humidity control, and provide a more comfortable living environment and better indoor air quality.

Euroblock’s high resistance to conduct heat or allow heat flow is why it has an R value (thermal resistance) rating almost equivalent to that of batt insulation, and ten times higher than conventional concrete. This is one reason why Euroblock eliminates the need for additional insulation.

The graph below illustrates the thermal performance of Euroblock. When the outdoor temperature is cold, heat from the sun (and also from heaters) can be stored in high mass elements of a building. This heat is gradually released into the home once the energy source is no longer available.

More about Thermal Mass

Thermal protection in buildings directly influences the use of energy for heating and cooling, as well as the ability to control the room climate at comfortable levels.

Thermal protection for winter conditions is intended to minimise the heat loss from the building, thus allowing the building to be economically heated. The internal surfaces of the external elements, such as walls and ceilings, should not drop below a certain minimum temperature in order to avoid condensation. In this way the mass is effectively acting as a heater long after the original source of heat has gone.

In contrast, the thermal protection for summer conditions is intended to minimise heat gain from the warm outside temperatures and sun rays, thus allowing the internal environment to be economically controlled in a comfortable state.

Thermal protection in summer is mainly determined by the capability of the exterior building elements to store and dissipate heat. This property is determined by the mass and thermal conductivity of the building material.

The thermal mass and thermal conductivity establish the thermal inertia, which causes a damping and time lag of the temperature peaks. In other words the mass absorbs heat from the sun and stores it. As the heat is stored in the mass, the air in the room is not heated as much as in a lightweight building.
The heat is only released into the building when the room temperature drops below that of the mass.