ABSTRACT
Buildings in all countries are energy’s major users. The energy’s a real share goes to cool and heat structures in zones with hard climate terms. This air-conditioning and heating load can have minimized in many ways; the suitable design and choice of the structure external wall and its ingredients are noteworthy among them. The energy savings’ degree resulting from the thermal insulation’s use changes depending on the structure’s form, the climatic terms under which the structure is built, and the form of insulating material used. The thermal insulation’s suited use in structures helps not only to decrease the necessary air-conditioning tracked volume but also to diminish the energy’s yearly cost. Sustainable materials help the trio of energy, economy, and environment as they have multiple positive effects on jobs as a renewable resource and power the world’s economic activities.
The aim of this chapter is to assess the contribution of fly ash, clay, perlite, and vegetable oil-based renewable materials to building energy performance when used as building or insulation material. In this aim, the mini automotive-repair facility is projected as a sample building. For this facility, the energy efficiencies of the diverse wall type are insulated together with the epoxidized corn oil-source building or insulation materials researched by the Autodesk Revit Architecture Simulation Program for the period of yearly data of Malatya Province in Turkey.
