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10 Construction – Saving energy, conserving resources Building and living without plastics is now hardly imaginable. from the basement to the roof they bring color into the home, create attractive surfaces, offer protection against noise, cold and heat. in this way they help conserve ener gy and reduce the burden on the environment, since heating is responsible for about 30 percent of global oil consumption. Perhaps the homes of the future will no longer need conventional heating, thanks to plastic insulating materials that already exist today. The use of insulating materials made from BASF plastics saves fossil energy resources and significantly reduces CO2 emissions. This makes a major contribution to climate protection. BASF offers a complete range of solutions for insulation based on polystyrene and polyurethane. Styropor ® for the manufacture of rigid polystyrene foam is an invention of BASF and is now almost a synonym for insulating board. The efficiency of Styropor is enormous: In an 80 m2 older apartment insu lated with Styropor board, it is possible to save 1,120 liters of heating oil and 3,600 kilograms of CO2 annually. This corresponds to a re duction of more than 70 percent compared with the heating energy required for a non-insulated apartment. However, only 973 liters of oil are needed to produce the Styropor board to insulate the apartment. Based on cal culations for the whole of Germany, more than 20 million Long life and protection against heat and cold conserve resources – possible thanks to products from BASF: • Neopor ® also insulates where space is restricted: e.g., when modernizing older buildings • Styrodur ® C is suitable for external insulation at ground level and in areas exposed to compression low-energy houses – whether old or new – are no problem with insulating foams made from plastic. The “three-liter house” – an older building modernized using innovative BaSf products – requires three liters of heating oil per square meter and year, equivalent to only 12 percent of the original heating energy. as a result, co2 emissions are reduced by over 80 percent. tons of heating oil and more than 50 million tons of CO2 emissions could be saved every year. What was recently regarded as unbeatable, has now been surpassed: The silver-gray Neopor ® , an advanced form of Styropor, provides the same insulating effect with significantly less raw materials. As a result, costs and resources are saved and the environmental impact further reduced. Although the thickness of the layer is reduced by 15 to 20 percent, the material provides the same insulating performance and so it can be used when there is limited space, for example in modernizing older buildings. A further product based on polystyrene is the green-colored, extruded Styrodur ® C. This material is very compression resistant, absorbs practically no water and is thus particularly suitable as heat insulation for floors, flat roofs, basement walls, refrigerated and store rooms, and even in road and rail construction.
Polyurethanes are energy-efficient all-rounders. As well as helping to save energy and costs, rigid polyurethane foams offer architects design freedom and create more living space by enabling thinner construction elements. In housebuilding, polyurethane is therefore used in many roof, wall and floor applications. Moreover, Elastopor ® and Elastopir ® rigid foams are used as the core material in metal-faced sandwich panels, for example as facade and roof elements in cold stores and industrial buildings. Thanks to their outstandings insulating properties, rigid polyurethane foams are used in many applications, not just in buildings. They are to be found in almost all the world’s refrigerators and freezers, for instance. In addition, they are used to insulate hot water tanks and district heating pipes. Living comfort can also be enhanced by the use of latent heat stores in plastic microcapsules that can be incorporated in the plaster of buildings. As temperatures rise, the waxy contents of the capsules melt, thereby storing the heat. Basotect ® , a flexible open-cell foamed plastic made from melamine resin provides a pleasant quiet indoor environment due to its high sound absorption capacity. In the construction sector, Basotect is also used to insulate solar panels and boilers. Polyurethanes are not just used as insulating materials in the construction industry: Elastocoast ® , an innovative solution for coastal protection based on polyurethane has been further developed by BASF researchers. The result is Elastopave ® , a polyurethane system that provides a stable, flexible and porous covering layer for surfaces such as sidewalks and cycle paths, parking lots and schoolyards. • Coastal protection with Elastocoast ® • Polyurethane sandwich panels conSTrucTion – SaVing EnErgy, conSErVing rESourcES 11
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