Thermally Augmented Cork-based Thin Insulation Coating (TACTIC)

战术项目将采用现有的CorkSol产品Thermocork，这是一种可持续的软木基绝缘材料，并使用纳米添加剂重新配制，以提高其热性能。热塑性软木很容易和成本有效地安装，可以用来隔离难以处理的房子。英国约有770万所房屋是不隔热的、实心墙结构的住宅，这些房屋中的许多居民都面临着燃料匮乏的问题，这意味着由于热量损失导致的高额燃料费用，他们很难为自己的房屋供暖。燃料贫困的人更有可能出现潜在的呼吸道健康问题，这增加了Covid-19等病毒的严重程度。为隔热效果差的房屋提供一种经济有效的解决方案，将改善英国大部分人口的潜在健康状况。新冠肺炎也对建筑和家居装修行业产生了重大影响。受新冠疫情影响，截至2020年5月的三个月里，私营部门住房维修和保养市场下降了39.8%。提供一种新的创新材料，可以用来隔离坚硬的房屋，这将有助于为私人住宅和社会住房创造新的市场机会。战术将重新制定CorkSol现有的热塞绝缘系统，添加候选纳米添加剂，以提高其热性能，使10mm涂层具有与50mm矿棉相同的等效性，并且比替代品的成本更低。新配方将在实验室和现实生活中进行测试，并将使用CorkSol现有的气溶胶喷雾方法进行应用。该项目还将研究这种新材料的市场，并制定营销计划，以帮助引起对困难房屋的核心目标市场的兴趣，特别是那些在社会住房领域。该项目的合作伙伴是CorkSol，一家成功的英国公司，拥有可持续采购的现有产品，以及经过批准和培训的应用程序网络，以及蒂赛德大学，其学者拥有进行产品重新配方和所需测试所需的技术技能。该项目的成果将是具有增强热性能的下一代Thermocork，可用于难以处理的非绝缘房屋，这些房屋占英国住房存量的很大一部分。

The TACTIC project will take the existing CorkSol product Thermocork, a sustainable cork based insulating material and reformulate it with nano additives to improve its thermal performance. Thermocork is easily and cost effectively installed and can be used to insulate hard to treat houses. Around 7.7 million UK houses are uninsulated, solid wall construction dwellings and many residents in these houses suffer from fuel poverty, meaning that they struggle to heat their homes due to high fuel bills, caused by heat loss. People in fuel poverty are more likely to suffer underlying respiratory health issues, which increases the severity of viruses such as Covid-19\. Providing a cost effective solution to poorly insulated houses will improve the underlying health of a large proportion of he UK population.Covid 19 has also had a significant impact in the construction and home improvement industry. The private sector housing repairs and maintenance market saw a 39.8% drop in the three months to May 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic. Providing a new innovative material that can be used to insulate hard to treat housing to will help generate a new market opportunity for both private homes and also social housing.TACTIC will reformulate CorkSol's existing Thermocork insulation system with the addition of candidate nano additives to enhance its thermal performance to allow a 10mm coating to have the same equivalence as 50mm of mineral wool and to be applied at a lower cost than alternatives. The new formulation will be tested at both laboratory and real-life scale, where it will be applied using CorkSol's existing aerosol spray method. The project will also examine the market for this new material and produce marketing plan to help generate interest in the core target market of hard to treat homes, especially those in the social housing sector.The project partners are CorkSol, a successful UK company that has in place an existing product that is sourced sustainably and a network of approved, trained applicators and Teesside University, whose academics have the technical skills needed to work on the product reformulation and testing needed. The project outcome will be a next generation of Thermocork with enhanced thermal properties that can be used on the hard to treat, uninsulated homes that are large part of the UK housing stock.