2018 Volume 3 Issue 2 Supplementary
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ANALYZING DURABILITY PROPERTIES OF INSULATED CONCRETE IN ENERGY REDUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS


Aryan RON
Abstract

The investigation and analysis of the Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) indices for the residential buildings cause the emergence of energy-related values in such a highly valuable industry. Permanent molds, made of polystyrene, are the most important components used in the reinforced concrete structure system with ICF that are used in the concreting and reinforced concrete wall construction stages and are regarded as part of the wall upon the termination of the foresaid stages. In such systems, the walls are concreted inside a polystyrene mold. The roofs are made using reinforced polystyrene molds in a voided form and the entire parts are made in a factory and assembled on site. The enjoyment of the latest ICF knowledge and technique and active and creative confrontation with such a process and analysis of the characteristics of such an industry and extraction of such an industry’s implicit results to make a better use of the technology for reaching construction and architectural methods along with the preservation of the main themes are the solutions suggested for the future architecture in the current research paper. The present article tries introducing the use of ICF technology as a sort of construction method using masonry compliant with the living environment in line with energy consumption reduction through recognizing the various characteristics of ICF in residential buildings and the successful examples made based thereon.



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