Sustainable communities

This webinar explores the links between the construction and built environment sectors and the five main sources of biodiversity loss. Through case studies, the webinar explores why biodiversity enhancement should be at the heart of your projects and showcases how it can be done.

Presentation slides:

SCSI Presentation

Protecting Biodiversity The role of engineers: Issue paper

Biodiversity and Real Estate

IGBC Presentation

Over the last two years, the lockdowns have highlighted the importance of access to nature for health and wellbeing. Interactions with plants and nature reduce psychological and physiological stress. Trees and other plants also contribute to improving air and water quality in our cities, preventing floods, and cooling our environment during heat waves. The webinar explores the role of nature-based solutions in enhancing resilience and in improving people’s health and wellbeing.

Nature–based solutions – Marcus Collier’s presentation

Francesco Pilla – Smart Green Roofs

Nature Based solutions and Sustainable
Urban Drainage in housing developments – Hans Visser’s presentation

With a growing population, a significant number of new homes and infrastructure must be built in Ireland by 2030. The webinar looks at the strategies that can be implemented to deliver the homes and infrastructures we need while tackling biodiversity loss.

Michael Goan – Biodiversity in the LDA Developments

Susan Vickers – Cluid Biodiversity Strategy

Ricky Whelan – Developing a Strategy for Biodiversity

The greenest building is often the one that already exists. This webinar explores how biodiversity can be enhanced in existing commercial and residential buildings across Ireland.

Tony Williams – Including Nature and Biodiversity in the design, construction and management of our urban (and rural) areas.

Paul Giles – Biodiversity in the Built Environment (Existing Buildings)

Dr Úna FitzPatrick – Enhancing biodiversity in existing homes

Wildlife in Buildings: Linking our Built and Natural Heritage

Although most of the focus to date has been on enhancing biodiversity on site, raw materials extraction and the production of construction materials impact biodiversity further afield. The last webinar of the series looks at “embodied biodiversity loss” and how it can be addressed through practical examples.

Gregory Nolan’s Presentation

Carolyn Jewell’s Presentation

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 and what does best practice look like?

This Course Mail will introduce the importance of restoring nature and biodiversity in the built environment, not just for the intrinsic value but in order to mitigate and adapt to climate change, promote the health and wellbeing of people and create long lasting socio-economic value.

The measurement of social value in the built environment is a rapidly evolving area of practice. It has become a vital part of communicating and committing to social value creation across the development lifecycle.  This document is designed to demystify the practice of measuring the social value of buildings and places.

Explore the role of regeneration in creating positive energy districts and recreating healthy walkable neighbourhoods. Speakers: Brent Toderian, TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Kaisa-Reeta Koskinen, Carbon Neutral Helsinki, John Moran, LDA and Rosie Webb, LCC

The need for a variety of housing types including higher density developments may become a component in solving our current housing crisis. This webinar takes a close look at multifamily buildings to consider how such developments could provide increased access to communal sustainable forms of transport and create more sustainable communities. Speakers include: Global Apartment Advisors, Niall Montgomery & Partners Landscape & Architecture, Zipp Mobility, Lioncor and Urban Agency Architects