On the 6th of May the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) launched a draft roadmap to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment across its whole life cycle. The draft roadmap shows that construction and the built environment are directly responsible for 37% of Ireland’s emissions, the same as agriculture. This is made up of about 23% operational […]
#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 […]
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 […]
#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 […]
#BuildingLife Series: reducing embodied carbon must be a priority
First Published in Passive House + magazine In #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 second interview of the series, Ali Grehan, City Architect for Dublin City Council tell us more […]
BAM Ireland to partner with Irish Green Building Council for a more sustainable built environment
BAM, the largest multinational construction business operating in Ireland, has announced today a new strategic partnership with the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC). The partnership will see the two organisations work closely to advance a more sustainable built environment. In particular, BAM Ireland will collaborate with the IGBC to decarbonise Ireland’s building stock, promote circularity […]
Irish building sector leaders urge EU to prioritise decarbonising the built environment
The Irish Green Building Council and leading Irish construction companies have joined a coalition of building sector leaders calling on the European Commission to support the full decarbonisation of the built environment through ambitious policies. The group, which represents over 4500 members across the building sector value chain, signed a letter today requesting that the […]
#BuildingLife Series: addressing the environmental impacts of buildings across their life cycle
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 life cycle. In the first interview of the series, Francis-Noel Duffy TD for Dublin South West and […]
lrish Green Building Council launch campaign to tackle the whole-life environmental impact of buildings
On the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) launched today a campaign to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment across its whole life cycle. As part of #BuildingLife, the IGBC will bring together representatives from across the sector to produce a science-based and industry-backed national decarbonisation roadmap for […]
