A mushroom for insulation

Buildings play an important role in climate neutrality and sustainability. However, they must also be built or renovated accordingly - or even insulated. Insulation materials can make up up to 50 percent of a building fabric. Therefore, it makes sense to make them as environmentally friendly as possible. If you also consider that more has to be renovated than newly built, insulation materials become even more important. After all, older buildings in particular have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to insulation. In her master's thesis at Danube University Krems, Zuzana Zavodsky dealt with the question of how insulation materials made of fungal mycelium can contribute to decarbonization.