Energywise Ireland open new renewables showroom
Leading renewable energy experts Energywise Ireland have opened their brand new showroom in Blackpool, Cork City.
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New homes data reveals extent of Irish low energy revolution
Ireland’s new build housing market is undergoing a radical transformation in energy performance specifications, analysis by Passive House Plus has revealed — with oil heating all but vanishing from use, leaving gas boilers and heat pumps to dominate the heating market.
Save money & energy with smart product choices — Quinn
Quinn Building Products says that a study undertaken by the company’s technical team demonstrates how the developer of a typical A3 rated, semi-detached house can make substantial savings using Quinn products.
EVs can be used to power buildings, study finds
Stored energy from electric vehicles (EVs) can be used to power large buildings – creating new possibilities for the future of smart, renewable energy — ground-breaking battery research at the University of Warwick has shown.
SEAI shifts focus to deep retrofitfit with conference & pilot scheme
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has announced a new €5million deep retrofit pilot programme for 2017 projects to upgrade inefficient buildings to an A3 rating or better – with a particular emphasis on ventilation, airtightness, thermal bridging, interstitial condensation and preventing overheating. Grants are available to cover between 50 and 95% of the costs of deep retrofit works for di�fferent categories of participants.
Irish study group visits Germany on energy efficiency tour
The German-Irish Chamber of Commerce hosted a study group to Germany last month to examine the energy efficiency of buildings there.
Ecological take double honours at SEAI Energy Show
Ecological Building Systems’ Diasen Diathonite Evolution cork lime thermal plaster was awarded with the best energy efficient product prize at this year’s SEAI Energy Show, held in Dublin on 5 and 6 April.
Ireland’s first nZEB training centre set for Wexford
A delegation of world leaders in sustainable building and energy visited Wexford early on 10 May to discuss plans to locate Ireland’s first nearly zero energy building (nZEB) training centre near Enniscorthy.
Kiss House launches “cutting edge” turnkey passive houses
Three leading firms operating in the sustainable building and passive house sectors have joined forces to launch Kiss House, a new concept in architect-designed, turnkey housing. Kiss House is available in two-bed, three-bed and four-bed options, all built to the passive house standard.
Blowerproof airtight liquid membrane gets BBA certified
Blowerproof liquid air-tight membrane has been certified by the British Board of Agrément. Blowerproof has been used widely across Europe for many years as a proven and effective method of achieving high levels of airtightness in many different buildings, and on a wide range of substrates.
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‘3D textbook building’ opens in Ballymun
Europe’s first purpose-built ‘3D textbook’ building has opened at the Rediscovery Centre in the old boiler house at Ballymun, which recently won the Green Building Award at the 2017 Green Awards.
Change habits to tackle climate change, passive house conference hears
Changing habits was a big theme
at the 21st International Passive
House Conference, which was held
in Vienna on 28 and 29 April, with leading
climate researcher Helga Kromp-Kolb
telling delegates that adopting new habits
and sharing resources fairly were both
crucial to tackling climate change.
13 affordable passive homes completed in Crawley, West Sussex
Crawley Borough Council’s first
passive house development,
designed by Accredited Passivhaus
Design (APD), has been completed and
certified to the passive house standard.
Angela Merkel opens €50m Viessmann innovation centre
German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the Viessmann Group’s new technological research and development centre in Allendorf, Germany on 12 April. The €50 million investment by Viessmann, one of the leading international manufacturers of heating, industrial and refrigeration systems, sets a milestone in interdisciplinary development and innovation, the company said.