Pat Barry, CEO at IGBC and Lorraine Fitzgerald, Head of Sustainability at Glenveagh Friday, 04/03/2022: One of Ireland’s leading homebuilders, Glenveagh Properties PLC has today announced a new strategic partnership with the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC). This collaboration will see Glenveagh work closely with the IGBC to prioritise sustainability in its new housing developments. […]
#BuildingLife: “Sustainability must be embedded at all stages of a building’s life,” says David Browne of RKD
First Published in Passive House + magazine In this new #BuildingLife Ambassador Spotlight Series, Passive House Plus is profiling leaders who have endorsed the Irish Green Building Council’s call to address the environmental impacts of buildings across their lifecycle. In this fourth interview of the series, David Browne, Director of RKD and former president of […]
Grant to work with the Irish Green Building Council for a more sustainable built environment
Thursday, 20th January: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) and Grant to partner for a more sustainable built environment. The new partnership will see leading home heating solutions company, Grant, which has played a leading role in the plumbing and heating industry for over 40 years, supporting the IGBC in accelerating the decarbonisation of residential […]
The IGBC and Ethos Engineering launch a LEED training for Contractors
The Irish Green Building Council, in collaboration with Ethos Engineering, launch today a new online training: LEED for Contractors. This training is designed to help contractors meet their LEED credits on-site by providing a walk-through of the primary credits for which the contractor has responsibility, including tools and strategies for achieving LEED points. From kick-off […]
The Irish Green Building Council launches a pilot scheme to increase reuse of construction materials
Thursday, 16th December: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) launched today a pilot scheme to demonstrate how construction waste can be turned into useful resources.
IGBChats #11: Achieving WELL Health-Safety Rating
by Neil Menzies, Director of Sustainability at Hibernia REIT plc In Hibernia’s view the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes in occupier expectations for office space that were already happening pre-pandemic, with occupiers and their staff increasingly seeking flexible, efficient, amenity-rich office space with strong wellness and ESG credentials. Hibernia’s strategy is focused on office clusters and […]
Mass timber construction extensively discussed at the Irish Green Building Council’s annual residential conference
Friday, 3rd December: Timber frame homes and the opportunity to develop a large-scale timber construction sector were extensively discussed at the Irish Green Building Council’s (IGBC) Better Homes conference today. Ireland needs to build at least 300,000 homes over the next 10 years. The emissions associated with the construction of these homes, including quarrying, manufacturing […]
Leaders in Ireland’s housing industry established forum to advance greener, healthier homes
Healthy Homes Ireland, a new forum established to influence public policy, will host its inaugural virtual meeting today, Wednesday 1st December, to advance a greener and healthier living environment in Ireland’s homes. Founded with the support of the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) and VELUX, Healthy Homes Ireland is led by a high level steering […]
The Irish Green Building Council, with support from the LDA and EPA, launches tool to reduce the carbon emissions of the construction sector
Tuesday, 30th November: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC), with Support from the Land Development Agency (LDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today launches a free online tool to assess the likely carbon impacts of different material approaches at an early stage in building design.
IGBChats #10: High-Quality Data, a Key Enabler to Unlocking Housing Energy Upgrade at Scale
by Xavier Dubuisson (RetroKit) Using high-quality data to plan a successful home energy upgrade can be likened to having the right tools in the toolbox to get the job done! However, with so many variables and so much data, identifying the starting point can be a challenge.
The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) published a preliminary set of recommendations to facilitate the decarbonisation of Ireland’s built environment
Thursday, 11th November: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) published today a preliminary set of recommendations to address the emissions associated with Ireland’s built environment across its whole life cycle.
John Paul Construction to work with the Irish Green Building Council for a more sustainable built environment
10, November: The Irish Green Building Council have announced today that John Paul Construction have joined the organisation as a gold member. The new partnership will see leading international construction specialist, John Paul Construction supporting the IGBC in developing new programmes to decarbonise the Irish built environment. The partnership is being launched during World Quality […]
Irish Green Building Council welcomes the Climate Action Plan 2021
Friday, 5th November: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has welcomed the inclusion of whole life carbon targets for construction in the Climate Action Plan 2021. According to an initial assessment of carbon emissions associated with construction and operation of the Irish built environment published by the IGBC, embodied emissions account for 11% of Ireland’s […]
Carbon emissions associated with the construction, buildings, and infrastructure sectors account for approximately a third of Ireland’s emission
Thursday, 4th November: The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has launched today an initial assessment of all emissions associated with construction and the built environment in Ireland. The report commissioned by the IGBC to UCD’s Building in a Climate Emergency Research Group addresses the lack of data on carbon emissions associated with construction and operation […]
Irish Green Building Council call for a full decarbonization of the built environment
Three days out from COP26, the Irish Green Building Council has highlighted the urgency to address the carbon emissions associated with buildings across their whole life cycle. The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to keep global warming […]
#BuildingLife Series: Addressing the environmental impacts of buildings across their lifecycle
First Published in Passive House + magazine In this new #BuildingLife Ambassador Spotlight Series, Passive House Plus is profiling leaders who have endorsed the Irish Green Building Council’s call to address the environmental impacts of buildings across their lifecycle. In this third interview of the series, Steve Murphy, Managing Director – Conceptual Construction, Hines tell […]
Further actions needed to reach 2030’s renovation targets
Friday, 15th October: The Irish Green Building Council’s annual energy renovation conference highlighted the need for further immediate action to reach our 2030’s energy renovation targets. An international study developed by E3G for the Renovate Europe Campaign analysing the share of funds in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) dedicated to energy renovation of […]
IGBChats #9: Commercial retrofit – out with the new, in with the old
By Lisa Downey, KORE Commercial buildings in Ireland are diverse with varying forms such as factories, offices, supermarkets, farms and more, and although it seems challenging from the outset with such diversity, all of these buildings can upgrade their energy efficiency with measures such as insulation, heating, ventilation, lighting, refrigeration, and more. KORE Retrofit have […]
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