Residential – Home Performance Index HPI

Training to become Certified HPI Assessor.
€250 members/€390 non members*

This webinar is for local authorities, public procurers, and their design teams

• Introduction
• What is Level(s)?
• What are the main indicators?
• How can I integrate level(s) into my housing projects?
• Home Performance Index – How does it integrate Level(s) indicators and National policy?
• How as a procurer can I demonstrate commitment?
• Case study – Focus Building

Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) offer a green funding product with discount of up to 0.5% on loans for residential developments certified with the Home Performance Index (HPI) certification.

The webinar will introduce the HBFI green funding product and address the practical implications of achieving HPI certification, what to watch out for, mandatory indicators and initial actions to take.

This webinar was covering the changes in the upcoming Home Performance Index Certification Version 3, its alignment to the EU taxonomy and Level[s] and Home Performance Index Retrofit.

Johanna Varghese & John Fingleton, IGBC

What is the Home Performace Index? Why should I use it? What does it cover? Why would a developer be interested in certification of new homes?

Cathal Heneghan, Meehan Green

What is Life Cycle assessment and why is it important? How is it measured? What are the standards? What are EPDs and where can I find them?

Neil Murphy, Centre for Excellence for Universal Design

What is universal design? Why is it important to consider at early design stage? How can it be implemented on my housing scheme?

Will Woodrow, Woodrow Sustainable Solutions

How do we positively enhance new residential development to have a positive ecological impact. What needs to be considered? What are the options?

Muge Karasahin, Meehan Green

Why is indoor air quality important? What are VOCs and TVOCs? How do we avoid them? How can we test for them?

Stuart Blofeld, BRE

What is best practice in waste management on site? What should be considered? How to develop a waste management plan? How best to implement the strategy?

William O’Donnell, IN2

Designing for good practice daylighting? What are the current requirements from planners and what is the current recommended standards and guidance?

James Cousins, Amplitude Acoustics

What are the current Part E requirements for acoustics? What is the testing regime? Is it best practice and if not, what does best practice look like? What needs to be considered at early design stage?