Moisture Levels in Historic Timber Walls Insulated with Hemp-Lime
(2021) International conference on Earthen and wood vernacular heritage and climate change p.122-127- Abstract
- The European Union has a low-carbon roadmap that aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to
prevent further climate change and achieve climate-neutrality by 2050. Many of the historical buildings that we
have today will still be around in 2050. Hence, there is a need to improve their energy performance. A way to do
this is to use hemp-lime as a material for renovation. Hemp shiv, the woody core parts of the hemp stem, can be
used in combination with building limes to create a sustainable building material. Visby (a UNESCO World Heritage
Site) is the capital of the Swedish island Gotland. It is dominated by historical timber houses with post-and-plank
walls. To improve air tightness and to reduce fire risks these... (More) - The European Union has a low-carbon roadmap that aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to
prevent further climate change and achieve climate-neutrality by 2050. Many of the historical buildings that we
have today will still be around in 2050. Hence, there is a need to improve their energy performance. A way to do
this is to use hemp-lime as a material for renovation. Hemp shiv, the woody core parts of the hemp stem, can be
used in combination with building limes to create a sustainable building material. Visby (a UNESCO World Heritage
Site) is the capital of the Swedish island Gotland. It is dominated by historical timber houses with post-and-plank
walls. To improve air tightness and to reduce fire risks these timber houses were historically rendered with a thick
lime render.
The aim of this paper was to study moisture levels in two walls; one with a lime render and another with a hemplime render to determine the feasibility of using hemp-lime as an insulation material for retrofitting historic postand-plank walls. Two full-scale façades were constructed at Lund University, with a post-and-plank wall with a
thick lime render and a similar wall with a hemp-lime render. The façades had two different surface finishes: an
air lime and a natural hydraulic lime, allowing for a comparison between the two. Moisture levels inside the
façades were monitored for more than one year. (Less)
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- Strandberg, Paulien LU and Balksten, Kristin
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthen and Wood Vernacular Heritage and Climate Change
- editor
- Dabaieh, Marwa
- pages
- 122 - 127
- publisher
- Lund University
- conference name
- International conference on Earthen and wood vernacular heritage and climate change
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2021-08-29 - 2021-08-30
- ISBN
- 978-91-7267-446-2
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 494f5569-5827-486e-b8ba-923fbf30876e
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