JUWO SmartWall Monolithic Building Systems to meet the Future Homes Standards 2025
Future Homes Standards 2025 are all about improving the thermal efficiency of new homes in the UK and to ensure lower running costs, which in turn will reduce the carbon footprint of a new home.
The answer is to design external walls using the Juwo SmartWall systems as a Monolithic Single Skin structure, incorporating the insulation requirements within the structure of the blocks and to reduce thermal bridging (Psi Values) eliminating mortar or adhesive on the interlocking vertical joints and using a thin bed adhesive bond to the horizontal plane.
No Cavities. No Wall Ties. No Additional Insulation
This results in a quicker and subsequently less expensive construction to build. The Juwo SmartWall Monolithic Single Skin clay blocks are manufactured to include all the insulation values required within the system.
Using traditional masonry cavity wall construction to reach these types of U values would need to have wall thickness to be as high as 430-450mm wide with cavities being more than 200mm wide filled with Petrochemical Insulation products, increasing the fire risk within a cavity, as well as implications on the foundation widths used, which will require more robust wall ties with design consideration in the structural performance against wind and sway.
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