Solid wall insulation of the Victorian house stock in England: A whole life carbon perspective

Abstract Solid walls are a common feature of the pre-1919 Victorian housing stock in England, however their construction results considerable heat loss, and thus large heating requirements. wall insulation these would improve energy efficiency, turn should reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, additional needed comes with an embodied carbon cost. Current studies about whole life performance solid focus on single building or type only, without considering diversity types house stock. This study fills this gap by investigating eight current market available materials. The materials studied include vacuuminsulated panels (VIPs), aerogel, phenolic foam, polyurethane (PUR), polyisocyanurate (PIR), expanded polystyrene (EPS), glass wool wood fibre. show that reduces emissions up to 1654 kgCO2e per m2, payback time all being less than 23 years worst case scenario, one year best scenario. Both considerably shorter service More actions be taken promote installation as work shows accumulated reduction potential reached 268 MtCO2e from 2021 2050.