@misc{9230469,
  abstract     = {{Climate change is one of the biggest societal challenges of our times, which is why high standards are set on today’s building construction and material choices. Around one fifth of the total carbon emissions from Sweden comes from the construction industry where material manufacturing and production are included. Through strategic material choices, could the carbon emissions be reduced. This is often made with body material in buildings where they look at the interchangeability of them but there are other materials that could recuse carbon emissions as well; heat insulation. In the operational phase of a building is heat insulation, one of the most important factors for the building´s energy performance. 
Today there are different kinds of heat insulation, biobased insulation and conventional insulation. Studies show that biobased insulation has a lower impact on the climate than conventional insulation, but despite the advantages conventional materials are often chosen as the insulation material in new production. The tradeoff between the material properties of biobased and conventional insulation, which creates a need to map the barriers and drivers what’s the reason is to choose one of the materials. There is missing a collected understanding of how these materials are balanced to make a choice, which is what this study intends to do. 
To map these drivers and barriers are five methods used: an literature study, an interview study, a case study, document scanning and a thematic analysis. These methods are used to identify material properties of the insulation materials, understand how they are used and are experienced and examine how projects are affected by them. 
The result shows that there are both will and technical possibilities to implant these biobased insulation materials but there are factors that make these barriers. These factors are mainly economics, lack of knowledge, technical uncertainties and regulatory requirements. But the result also showed that there are also factors that are driving these implementations, which are reduced environmental impact, sustainability goals and that there are reference objects with these biobased materials. 
To sum up, decision about heat insulation is grounded more on economical and organizational rather than technical. The implementation of biobased insulation could increase if there are clear sustainability goals committed by actors, reference objects, clear standards and continued research of long term performance and thar climate benefits are valued more highly in construction objects.}},
  author       = {{Pütter, Isabelle}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBM}},
  title        = {{Biobaserad isolering i flerbostadshus: barriärer och drivkrafter vid materialval med fokus på värme- och fuktegenskaper}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}