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The optimum thickness of the building envelopeinsulation materials depends on a large number ofparameters. But the optimum thickness is calculated consideringonly economic arguments. In this paper, life-cycleassessment of the materials used in the building, and specificallythe insulation ones, are included in the process tocalculate the optimum insulation thickness from bothenvironmental and energetic points of views. Within thisframe, the large influence of the parameters associated withthe manufacturing of the materials on the determination ofthe optimum thickness has been demonstrated: For all thestudied cases, the insulation thickness depends in a largeway on the unitary economic, energetic and environmentalcosts. The biggest differences in optimum thicknessesbetween two different insulation materials correspond tothe highest differences in the unitary costs, for all theoptimization points of views. The study also demonstratesthat increasing values of the characteristic parameters ofthe manufacturing phase, which depend on the nature ofthe insulation materials, imply a decrease of the impact ofthe calculation settings, associated with the use phase ofthe building

Impact of the insulation materials’ features on the determination of optimum insulation thickness