At Thermohouse, we manufacture and install a low energy building system consisting of Insulated Concrete Formwork (ICF) walls together with a low energy floor and roof system giving you a complete airtight, thermal envelope. With Thermohouse, you can expect a healthier indoor environment, a reduction on energy costs, excellent thermal performances (to meet passive standard if required), elimination of all cold bridging, more creative innovative design opportunities, superior structural strength and an easy to install lightweight system with a substantially reduced building time.
The Thermohouse Insulating Concrete Formwork (ICF) wall system together with our floor and roof components are composed of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). EPS is made up of 98% air and 2% polystyrene and has a minimum life span of 60 years. EPS uses less than 0.1% of global oil as a feedstock, allowing it to save up to 200 times its own resource in thermal energy savings. The energy payback of EPS thermal insulation is highly renowned. In the case of thermal renovation of a house with EPS insulation, the total primary energy for production of the EPS used is saved in just 2 to 4 months.
The lightweight, low impact qualities of EPS combined with its immense energy saving insulation properties has the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. Approximately 85% of the environmental impact of a building is related to energy consumption in the building’s occupation phase, mainly from the heating and cooling needs of the building user. Therefore, one of the most important environmental aspects of any insulation material is its thermal performance throughout the lifetime of the building and the design to ensure the longevity of this thermal performance. It is important that optimum insulation dominate properties which allow for long term performance, such as:
- Constant Thermal Insulation Value
- Low Moisture
- Mechanical Strength (to offset user wear & tear throughout life span of building)
- Resistance to Rot, Mould & Decay
- Resistance to Rodent Decay
Sustainable Low Energy
Thermohouse is a light weight, insulated, and permanent concrete form system that provides a sustainable low energy complete building system. The system offers insulated foundations to passive standard, under-floor heating boards with U-values 0.12, intermediate flooring & internal load bearing insulating concrete formwork (ICF) walls for improved thermal & acoustic control, external walls with U-values of up 0.11, and roofing panels with a U-value of 0.15.
Low U-values
All components exceed the U-values stipulated in the latest version of the building regulations and offers an “A” rated envelope using our 350mm standard system.
With the use of this system the client will receive a building with a low energy requirement while also reducing their carbon footprint.
Airtightness
When correctly installed the system has achieved an air-tightness level of less than 0.50. With the low U-values and an airtight system the running costs are reduced significantly thus providing long term sustainable savings on the running costs over the life span of the building.
Benefits of Thermohouse
- Low running & maintenance costs
- No draughts, leaks, condensation, or mould
- Control of internal environment and filtered air quality, no pollen or dust particles
- High quality home with excellent resale value
- Minimum life span of 60 years
- Speed of build
- Availability of materials
- Competitive build cost
- High performance dwellings
- Certified to build up to 6 storeys
- Flexible design opportunities
- Complete system from foundation to roof
- Fully approved system
- Availability of materials
- Ease of handling and installation
- Limited waste
- Full technical onsite support
- Sustainable low running & maintenance costs
- Long life expectancy
