Author: Bülent GÜRAKIN / Greenginnovation Co. Manager

At the point where our civilization has reached, global population growth, developing technology and growing industry in parallel brought great environmental problems. The most important of these problems is global warming and consequently environmental disasters that have been experienced all over the world. According to scientific predictions, global warming and the associated negative climate changes will continue to adversely affect natural life and ecological balance with increasing acceleration. One of the main reasons for this is the high carbon footprint of the products produced by the developing consumer industry. In other words, the unit energy and raw material consumption used in the production of industrial products is very high. This means that the need for oil and by-products of today’s industry indexed to oil and by-products is increasing day by day. Science and the common mind have long been looking for ways to get rid of this vicious circle, researching new energy production techniques that will break this cycle, other sources of raw materials other than oil, and carrying out huge budgeted research projects. One of the branches of industry where solutions to this issue are the least and the dependence on oil continues on a large scale is the sector of construction materials and construction technologies. Although natural materials such as sand, cement, iron, brick, etc., which are the natural materials at the basis of this sector, energy consumption is very high in the production stages of these materials. More importantly, buildings where these materials are used in a lean state consume very high energy for heating and cooling during their lifetime. If you want to apply thermal insulation to these buildings, you may encounter petroleum by-products, products that are extremely harmful to nature and the environment, which cannot be destroyed, emit deadly gases and trigger fire. Stone wool, which is another solution, is not an ideal solution because of its application difficulties, non-economic and structural problems. Although aerated concrete, which is a widely used building material in recent years, has provided some advantages to the users in terms of insulation and lightness, it has been insufficient in solving the problem due to its water absorption coefficient and its inability to dispose of this water easily. The high cost and the insufficiency of thermal conductivity values ​​are good compared to other materials, so that better solutions are needed in this sector. Here is our material; it can be used in different forms, does not absorb water, can be brought to the desired lightness, despite its high thermal insulation coefficient is much more robust than similar, color of the raw material, the surface of stone, marble and so on. to be decorative and look very stylish, investment costs are very low, the production stage requires very little energy, does not burn, extremely resistant to fire, when used with other materials in the industry to eliminate their negative properties and so on. It is a candidate to fill this gap in the construction materials sector with such advantages. Thanks to the new construction technologies that are created by using our material and will be created in the future, buildings, structures which are much lighter, more stylish, economical, having a low carbon footprint and comfortable can be produced.