Alice Ryan's Colleagues at Irish Green Building Council
Rosemarie Sweeney
Researcher & Project Manager (Energy, Circularity, Sustainability, Buildings, Policy)
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Ireland
Irish Green Building Council
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The Irish Green Building Council was launched in 2011, by organisations and businesses from the entire value chain of the built environment. These include universities, professional institutes, local authorities, leading contractors, NGOs, architects, engineers, energy companies and leading national and transnational companies.All are united in one common goal to provide leadership to accelerate the rate of change in Ireland to a sustainable built environment.What we are working on right now: - Supporting Local Authorities - Renovation- One-Stop-Shop - Renovation- Upskilling in Energy Renovation (Build Up Skills Advisor App)- Green Finance & Green Homes- Level(s) Green Public Procurement- Building Renovation Passport- Embodied Carbon & LCA-Circularity in the Build Environment- Net Zero Carbon CommitmentOur ActivitiesThe Irish Green Building Council is looking to transform the Irish industry to sustainable practices through policy creation, education and provision of tools to measure and accelerate progress.- Advocacy: The IGBC is at the heart of inputting into national policy affecting the Irish built environment. The IGBC is involved in supporting large scale energy renovation and green finance projects.- Education, Training and Events: The IGBC host regular green building events and education modules. Training courses provided by the IGBC include green building certification such as LEED, BREEAM and the Home Performance Index – HPI, as well as building Life Cycle Analysis. - Tools: The IGBC encourage the provision of sustainable building tools including: -> Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) Platform to enable the mainstreaming of life cycle assessment for buildings in Ireland.A ->The Home Performance Index, Ireland's national certification for sustainable new homes-> The Learning Hub: a section of our website where you can find webinars, online resources and key reading materials delivered by industry experts