Vol.21, No.1, 2021, pp. 15–18
UDC:

ROOF INSULATION MATERIALS USING CEMENT, WOOD (SAWDUST) AND POLYSTYRENE

Eleyan Issa Jamal Issa1, Shagin Mopusa Saleh Mahmoud2, Safaa Ibrahim Hammad1

1) Depart. of Civil Eng., Faculty of Engineering, Amman Arab University, Amman, JORDAN

email: issaeleyan@yahoo.com or dr.issaeleyan@aau.edu.jo

2) Architecture Depart., Faculty of Engineering, Aqaba University of Technology, Aqaba, JORDAN

email: mshaheen@aut.edu.jo

 

Abstract

This study aims to use the environmental elements and how to exploit and deal with them to reach a green building that embodies full cooperation between the various engineering disciplines, and focuses on the importance of studies and environmental design of buildings in terms of economic, aesthetic and climatic aspects and their friendliness of the ocean, in addition to offering practical architectural and engineering solutions as solutions to deal with the environment and climate. Starting with straw, clay, and indoor courtyards, they display the most prominent materials available in Jordan that can be used in environmentally friendly buildings.

Keywords: isolation, humidity, deflection, heat transfer, sawdust, polystyrene, composite of cement

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