Abstract: Heating is the dominant energy load in the french construction sector for both residential and commercial buildings. Many researches were made on hemp based insulation products as hemp-lime is a renewable and bio based resource. Moreover, it exhibits interesting ability in inner air moisture control. However, the physical properties of this material show high variability induced by the manufacturing processes and by surrounding environmental condition such as temperature and humidity. In this work we investigate the effect of these variability ...
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