Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials

TYPICAL THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF BUILDING MATERIALS:

STRUCTURAL AND FINISHING MATERIALS
(Always check manufacturers details variation will occur depending on product and nature of materials).

Acoustic plasterboard
Aerated concrete slab (500kg/m3)
Aluminium
Asphalt (1700kg/m3)
Bitumen-impregnated fibreboard
Brickwork (outer leaf 1700kg/m3)
Brickwork (inner leaf 1700kg/m3)
Dense aggregate concrete block 1800 kg/m3 (exposed)
Dense aggregate concrete block 1800 kg/m3 (protected)
Calcium silicate board (600 kg/m3)
Concrete general
Cast concrete (heavyweight 2300 kg/m3)
Cast concrete (dense 2100 kg/m3 typical floor)
Cast concrete (dense 2000 kg/m3 typical floor)
Cast concrete (medium 1400 kg/m3)
Cast concrete (lightweight 1200 kg/m3)
Cast concrete (lightweight 600 kg/m3)
Concrete slab (aerated 500kg/m3)
Copper
External render sand/cement finish
External render (1300 kg/m3)
Felt - Bitumen layers (1700kg/m3)
Fibreboard (300 kg/m3)
Glass
Marble
Metal tray used in wriggly tin concrete floors (7800 kg/m3)
Mortar (1750 kg/m3)
Oriented strand board
Outer leaf brick
Plasterboard
Plaster dense (1300 kg/m3)
Plaster lightweight (600 kg/m3)
Plywood (950 kg/m3)
Prefabricated timber wall panels (check manufacturer)
Screed (1200kg/m3)
Stone chippings (1800 kg/m3)
Tile hanging (1900 kg/m3)
Timber (650 kg/m3)
Timber flooring (650 kg/m3)
Timber rafters
Timber roof or floor joists
Roof tile (1900kg/m3)
Timber blocks (650 kg/m3)
Web of I stud timber
Wood wool slab (500kg/m3)
Cellular glass
Expanded polystyrene
Expanded polystyrene slab (25 kg/m3)
Extruded polystyrene
Glass mineral wool
Mineral quilt (12 kg/m3)
Mineral wool slab (25 kg/m3)
Phenolic foam
Polyisocyanurate
Polyurethane
Rigid polyurethane
Rock mineral wool

THERMAL
CONDUCTIVITY
(W/mK)
0.25
0.16
237
0.50
0.05
0.84
0.62
1.21
1.13
0.17
1.28
1.63
1.40
1.13
0.51
0.38
0.19
0.16
390
1.00
0.50
0.50
0.06
0.93
3
50.00
0.80
0.13
0.77
0.21
0.50
0.16
0.16
0.12
0.41
0.96
0.84
0.14
0.14
0.13
0.13
0.84
0.14
0.15
0.10
0.038-0.050
0.030-0.038
0.035
0.029-0.039
0.031-0.044
0.040
0.035
0.021-0.024
0.022-0.028
0.022 0.028
0.022-0.028
0.034 0.042

Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials

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