Abstract
The aim of the research is the identification of low-cost, safe, easy to be composed and installed panels to improve the building indoor thermal and acoustic quality in disadvantaged contexts where people cannot afford commercial materials. These panels are aesthetically similar to commercial solutions but they are made of end-of-life household materials (EoLHM), such as clothes and packaging made of cardboard, glass, plastic or metal; indeed, given that EoLHM are cheap and available almost anywhere, they are suitable to become low-cost improvements in thermal and acoustic indoor comfort conditions for people living under the poverty threshold. Vulnerable contexts are characterised by strong social inequalities, exclusion, marginality, and poverty. Here, unhealthy indoor living conditions are significant and the energetic refurbishment of buildings by using traditional commercial solutions is not economically affordable. Sustainability, environment, social and economic aspects are deeply interconnected within the project and, by means of the research here proposed, it is aimed to obtain positive impacts on all these aspects. The results of the project are solutions for helping people living in disadvantaged contexts to improve their living conditions, the collection of numerical and experimental data on EoLHM that can be used by the scientific community to deep the research on this topic, and tools for the panel design. The project is done through several activities shown in Figure 1. The preliminary step consists in the analysis of the contexts in which these panels realized by coupling different EoLHM can be installed. In the second step, selected EoLHM are experimentally characterized to evaluate their adequacy to be converted in building elements. In particular, given that the structures fire resistance is an important safety aspect, part of the research focuses on the fire resistance characterization and its improvement. Since the panels are intended to be installed indoor, the condense resistance is also investigated. Based on the information so collected, it is investigated how to properly couple EoLHM to achieve predetermined thermal and acoustic characteristics. Then, test sample panels are realized and tested both in laboratory and in-situ to verify their performances. Along the entire duration of the project, results will be shared with the entire scientific community.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Eugenia Rossi di Schio
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
Coordinatore:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Contributo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 195.933,00
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 63.775,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
28/09/2023
Data di fine:
28/02/2026
