Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/05/2022
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Location
The Gibson Hotel

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ZERO CARBON CONFERENCE 2022

Build Green Now will be the most important construction conference in Ireland in 2022. We are back with our first live conference in 2 years. This is an unmissable chance for IGBC members to get together, network with industry leaders and policy makers, and  design pathways for a low carbon future. The past two years has seen ESG and sustainability rise to the top of the priority list of every organisation working in the built environment supply chain and you will hear how members are now dealing with this.

IGBC will be setting out our road map to net zero for the Built Environment with the launch of the #Buildinglife roadmap. IGBC will also set out the Irish industry agreed definition of Net Zero in the built environment in Ireland to end confusion on what it means. You will hear opinions on the implementation of the roadmap from industry leaders.  The  key policy makers in Europe, Government and representatives from the main political parties will discuss the implementation of the climate action plan over the coming 8 years.

If you would like to know more about exhibiting opportunities see Sponsorship document.

SCHEDULE

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9.30am
9.40am	Presentation of Whole Life Carbon Roadmap	Pat Barry – IGBC
9.50am	Presentation of the carbon modelling scenarios to 2030 and 2050	Oliver Kinnane – UCD
10.00am	Ministerial Address	Eamon Ryan – Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport
10.15am	Panel discussion: Whole life carbon – the path to zero	Chair: Marion Jammet – IGBC Ali Grehan -Dublin City Architect Francis Noel Duffy TD – Green Party PJ Rudden – Aengus Consulting Orla Coyle – SEAI
11.00am	Coffee Break
11.30am	Panel Discussion: ESG and meeting zero carbon	Chair: Rachel McGinley – CBRE Susan Vickers – Cluid Claire Pomroy – Hines Paul Kelly – AIB Wayne Metcalfe – SISK
12.30pm	Lunch & networking
2.00pm	Panel discussion: Implementation – we hear from those who have already started on the journey to Net Zero Carbon and the challenges.	Chair: Declan Alcock – Varming Tomas Cowman – Lidl Chris Croly -BDP Susan McGarry- Ecocem Ellen McKinney – IPUT Christian van Maaren – Excess Materials Exchange
2.45pm	Setting the Scene for Climate Action	John Gibbons, climatechange.ie
3.10pm	Panel discussion: Building political consensus	Chair: Alison Comyn – Journalist Political #BuildingLife ambassadors Eoin O’Broin TD – Sinn Fein Frances Fitzgerald MEP – Fine Gael Ciaran Cuffe MEP – Green Party Cian O’Callaghan TD – Social Democrats
4.00pm	End

 

SPEAKERS

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	Alison Comyn is a television and print journalist and broadcaster, best known as news anchor of UTV Ireland & IFTA-winning news and current affairs programmes Ireland Live. Alison has presented numerous current affairs and entertainment programmes in the UK and Ireland with RTÉ, BBC, Sky News and Channel 4, as well as covering for Joe Duffy on many occasions on Liveline on RTE Radio 1.
	Orla Coyle is a Chartered Engineer and Programme Manager for the Project Support Unit within the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. She has over 20 years’ experience in the energy performance of buildings both in Ireland and Australia. Prior to joining SEAI, Orla was a director in a consulting practice involved the environmental, energy and sustainable assessment for a range of new and existing buildings.
	Tomás Cowman is the Head of Construction at Lidl Ireland GmbH. Previously, Tomás was Construction Project Manager before being promoted to his current role. Tomás holds a MSc in Business Management from Michael Smurfit School of Business UCD.
	Chris Croly is technical director of the Building Services engineering team in BDP Dublin. Chris has had the opportunity to work on many of Ireland’s lowest energy buildings including the ESB’s Headquarter offices and the National Gallery of Ireland. He is currently working on a number of zero carbon building projects. The projects Chris has worked on have been recognised through over 40 awards for sustainable design and quality.
	Ciarán Cuffe has been MEP for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. He is a member of the Green Party and part of the European Green Party working to deliver on climate action, a just transition and safeguard human rights. Ciarán previously served as a Minister of State from 2010 to 2011. He was a TD for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 2002 to 2011. Cuffe has degrees in architecture and urban planning from UCD and an MSC in Cities from LSE.
	Francis Noel Duffy is the Green Party TD for Dublin South West, and former Councillor for Firhouse-Bohernabreena in South Dublin County Council. Francis is the Green Party Spokesperson for Housing. Before his election to Dáil Éireann, Francis was a lecturer at the Dublin School of Architecture, with a background in environmental science and sustainable building.
	Frances Fitzgerald is a Fine Gael MEP for Dublin City and County. She is a member of the ECON (Economic & Monetary Affairs) Committee, FEMM (Women’s Rights & Gender Equality) Committee and DEVE (Development) Committee. Prior to her election to the European Parliament in the 2019 European Elections, Frances served as a Fine Gael Oireachtas parliamentarian for over 20 years.
	John Gibbons is an environmental journalist and commentator. Based in Dublin, John has been writing and speaking about environmental and climate-related issues for the last decade and a half. John is a weekly environmental columnist with ‘The Last Word with Matt Cooper’ and is a guest columnist with the Business Post and the Irish Times.
	Ali Grehan is the Dublin City Architect and leads a multi-disciplinary team responsible for developing a broad urban design agenda. Her career has spanned private practice in Dublin, London and Bilbao, and in the Public Sector. Prior to becoming City Architect in 2008, Ali was Chief Architect with Ballymun Regeneration Ltd. She also worked with the RPA (now TII) delivering Dublin’s first LUAS Light Rail system.
	Oliver Kinnane is programme director of the MSc in Architecture, Urbanism and Climate Action at UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, where he is Head of Teaching and Learning. Oliver has a Ph.D. in nonlinear modelling, a Masters of Architecture and a Bachelor of Engineering. As Principle and Co Investigator he has secured research grants from the European Commission, SEAI, Irish Research Council, EPA, Enterprise Ireland and Innovate UK.
	Susan McGarry is Managing Director of Ecocem Ireland Ltd, part of the Ecocem Group, Europe’s largest independent supplier of GGBS to the construction industry. Susan is a Chartered Engineer with a Masters degree in engineering management. Susan is a keen advocate for promoting and encouraging women in the construction and engineering sector.
	Rachael McGinley is the Head of Sustainability for CBRE in Ireland. She is responsible for leading sustainability across the Irish business, and provides strategic and asset level advice across all of CBRE’s business lines. Previously she was Principal Consultant at Edge Environment, a leading sustainability consultancy in Sydney, Australia. Rachael has also worked for the Green Building Council of Australia in technical, strategic and engagement roles. Rachael has a background in structural engineering
	As IPUT’s Sustainability Manager, Ellen McKinney implements IPUT’s Responsible Investment Strategy across its portfolio.  This strategy focuses on three key pillars: climate action, circular economy and health and wellbeing, and includes industry-leading sustainability targets and objectives.  Ellen’s role is to devise and deliver plans of action to achieving these, working with the Developments, Asset Services and Property Management team to do so.
	Wayne Metcalfe is Director of Health, Safety, Sustainability and Quality at Sisk. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) with over 20 years’ experience delivering major infrastructure schemes. Wayne has always extolled the virtues of a truly holistic approach to engineering, linking concept, design and construction effectively to improve both safety and sustainability performance. In 2010 Wayne’s work reducing carbon impacts through innovative engineering on a major highway scheme was recognised and published by the ICE.
	Cian O’Callaghan is the Social Democrat party spokesperson for Housing and a member of the Dáil committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Cian was first elected as a Councillor in 2009 and then as Mayor of Fingal County Council in 2012. Cian has been particularly vocal about affordable housing and building safe and sustainable communities. Cian has a Masters degree from UCD and also studied Social Policy and Healthcare Economics.
	Eoin Ó Broin is a Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Mid-West and the party’s spokesperson for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. He was elected to Belfast City Council between 2001 and 2004 and was a member of South Dublin County Council between 2013 and 2016. Eoin is the is author of a number of books including HOME: why public housing is the answer and Defects: living with the legacy of the Celtic Tiger.
	Claire Pomroy is a chartered engineer and a Director of Hines, focused on developing urban regeneration projects. Previously she managed Macquarie Capital’s PPP delivering TU Dublin’s new campus at Grangegorman. Claire has also led design teams on major international projects – including Sydney’s €2bn Central Park, ranked globally as one of the 50 most influential buildings of past 50 years, and Barangaroo, one of the world’s first carbon neutral precincts. While based in Switzerland, Claire established a European business for a property technology company leveraging data to improve operational carbon performance of global real estate. Claire is Hines Ireland’s ESG leader.
	Eamon Ryan is the Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport. He studied commerce in UCD and was the founding chairperson of the Dublin Cycling Campaign. Eamon began his political career as a Dublin City Councillor for the Rathgar – Rathmines. He then went on to serve both as a TD for Dublin South and as a Government Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. He is leader of the Green Party/Comhaontas Glas.
	PJ Rudden is a Chartered Engineer who was previously President of Engineers Ireland (2011 – 2012). Currently, he is Construction Sector Group (CSG) Chairman of Innovation and Digital Adoption at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and an External Member of the Project Ireland 2040 Delivery Board. PJ was Director of the EU Commission Secretariat for the European Green Capital cities and European Green Leaf cities annual awards from 2010 to 2019. PJ was also lecturer in Waste Management and Circular Economy for UCD Civil Engineering Masters in 2019
	Christian van Maaren is the Founder of Excess Materials Exchange (EME) based in Netherlands. EME is a digital, secured marketplace where companies can exchange any excess materials and products. Christian’s current mission is to successfully establish and scale the platform. Through that, he endeavours to eliminate the word waste from the dictionary and re-establish the relationship our society has with the use of materials.
	Susan Vickers is Energy & Environmental Manager at Cluid Housing. Susan hold a MSc in Environmental Sustainability and a BSc in Environmental Biology from UCD.

EXHIBITORS

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	Acutrace are Ireland’s leading supplier of Energy Measurement and Sustainability Systems. They measure Energy Consumption in Commercial and Industrial buildings helping Businesses and Organisations meet and report on their ESG and Sustainability targets. Their award winning Energy Measurement Software Platform allows users to pinpoint exactly where and when Energy is being used – and wasted – helping users to take corrective action to make significant savings.
	Cosentino Group is a global, Spanish, family-owned company that produces high value innovative surfaces for the world of design and architecture. With the involvement of its customers and partners, Cosentino imagines and anticipates design solutions that offer value and inspiration to people’s lives. This goal is made possible by pioneering brands such as Silestone®, Dekton®, and Sensa by Cosentino®. All are technologically advanced surfaces which create unique spaces for both home and public spaces.
	With vast experience using award-winning products on pioneering low-energy projects, Ecological Building Systems are in a unique position to impart their knowledge to industry professionals. Their technical expertise and leading range of ecological products provide the highest specifications for diffusion-open, healthy, low-energy, sustainable buildings. Ecological Building Systems offer on-site technical support including Hygrothermal modelling using WUFI, U-value calculations & Dew Point assessments. In addition, Ecological also offer a range of CPD’s and training courses.
	KSN Horizon comprises a strong team of sustainability consultants who are supported by an experienced group of property and construction professionals, project managers and energy assessors. This enables them to provide a full end-to-end service to the real estate sector – from initial data measurement and verification on scope 1,2,3 emissions, implementation of carbon mitigation strategies, asset improvement plans, to subsequent monitoring, thereby delivering a bespoke service offering to their clients.
	In 2021 Xtratherm launched their Sustainability Pledge to become a Zero Carbon operation by 2030 They pledged to make improvements in all aspects of their operation including the manufacturing of insulation products. Xtratherm’s ECO360 strategy is their commitment to continually review and improve the sustainable credentials of their product offering and services. Their Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) have been central in a new study to look at meeting the embodied targets within the RIAI Climate Challenge 2030

SPONSOR

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Sponsored by		AIB Group is a financial services group with a market leading position in a number of areas. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. Over the last number of years the bank been working to build a more sustainable business. AIB has invested in wind energy projects, launched a €5 billion climate action fund and created a green mortgage.  The company also committed to achieving carbon neutrality across its operations by 2030, using a “net zero’’’ approach. That means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible – through the elimination of carbon rather than offsetting it.
Supported by		#BuildingLife is a project led in Ireland by the Irish Green Building Council. The initiative aims to achieve the mix of privasector action and public policy necessary to tackle the whole-life impact of buildings. Learn more here.

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