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National Renovation Upskilling Committee

Ireland’s National Renovation Upskilling Committee (Reno-NUC) was officially launched by Minister Damien English T.D. in February 2019. Reno-NUC was formed as a recommendation of the SEAI funded ECCoPro project.

Objectives

The objective of the committee was to encourage and facilitate construction workers and building professionals upskilling in energy renovation.

Role of the group

The role of Reno-NUC was to provide high-level strategic and policy input to support large scale upskilling of building professionals and construction workers in energy renovation in Ireland.

Its primary aims were:

– To contribute to the development of a roadmap to launch a user-friendly holistic energy efficiency register for building professionals and construction workers. The final recommendations are available here.

– To oversee the development of an online self-assessment tool for building professionals and construction workers to help them identify their training needs and pathway to acquire these skills. The app is available here

Council Members

•  Pat Barry, CEO, Irish Green Building Council – Chair
•  David McHugh, Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland
•  John Egan, Construction Industry Federation
•  Eileen O’Connor, Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment
•  Sean Armstrong, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
•  Dee Kehoe, Engineers Ireland
•  Ruaidhri Neavyn, Higher Education Authority
•  Paul Tobin, Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers
•  Seamus Hoyne, Limerick Institute of Technology
•  Gary O’Sullivan, National Standards Authority of Ireland
•  Sandra Campbell, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
•  James Lonergan, Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland
•  Conor Hanniffy, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
•  Michael O’Brien, Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board

Final Results

The work of the Committee led to to the publication of a set of recommendations for a user-friendly holistic energy efficiency register: “Developing a Register of Building Professionals & Construction Workers who have upskilled in Energy Renovation”

The final reccomendations for a Energy Renovation Register have been published in a report, “Developing a Register of Building Professionals & Construction Workers who have upskilled in Energy Renovation”.  The document presents how a Renovation Register could work in Ireland.The launch of the register could address several barriers to renovation. On the one hand, it would incentivise building professionals and construction workers to upskill in renovation, hence addressing the lack of skills in the supply chain. On the other hand, it would address property owners’ lack of awareness and trust in the process.

Finally, to better incentivise building professionals and construction workers to upskill in the area, a self-assessment tool has been developed to allow them to easily identify the steps they need to take to upskill. This app, called Build Up Skills Advisor, was launched in May 2020 and it’s available here.

IGBC is constantly updating the app and we are going to upgrade it as part of BUSLeague project.

 

Background

The work completed by the Irish Green Building Council and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) as part of Build Upon and Qualibuild projects showed that a lack of skills at all levels of the supply chain could significantly jeopardise large scale deep energy renovation in Ireland.

Against this background, the IGBC ran a comprehensive consultation in 2018 to explore the opportunity of introducing a user-friendly holistic energy efficiency accreditation system for building professionals in Ireland. This should:

1. Incentivise building professionals to upskill in the area,
2. Guarantee closer alignment in required renovation skills for different professionals
3. Allow end-users to clearly identify building professionals who have upskilled in the area.

Fig. 1: Expected project impact on the rate of energy renovation in Ireland

 

Organisations and individuals interested in learning more about this project should contact Marion – Marion@igbc.ie or call 01 681 5862. 

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This project has been supported with financial contribution from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland under the SEAI Research, Development and Demonstration Funding Programme 2018, Grant number 18/RDD/283. 


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