Daikin has launched the Altherma 3 R, the world’s
first high-capacity R-32 refrigerant split heat
pump that offers cooling, along with heating and
domestic hot water.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:59
Passive Sills wins product award for insulated threshold
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Cork-based manufacturer Passive Sills
was highly commended in the exterior
product category at the Architects’ Choice
Product Awards at the Architecture &
Building Expo 2021
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:56
Deep retrofit & heat pump transforms Inchicore home
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:51
Offaly self-build features renewable heating designed by Grant
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The self-builder of a new NZEB family home in County Offaly is experiencing
high comfort and low energy bills with the help of a new renewable heating
system from leading Irish home heating solutions company Grant.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:48
Partel commended at the Architects’ Choice Product Awards
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Partel’s Alma Vert recycled structural panel
and Lunos Silvento ec exhaust system were
commended in the ‘best exterior product’, and
‘best renewable product’ categories respectively at
the Architects’ Choice Product Awards 2021, as
part of the Architecture & Building Expo that was
held in the RDS in November.
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Viessmann has launched a range of
electric heating products to the UK
to complement its established line of
heat pumps.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:40
Ecomerchant now stocking Herschel Infrared heating products
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Leading sustainable building product
supplier Ecomerchant is now supplying
Herschel Infrared heating panels, and Ecomerchant’s
Will Kirkman says they are an ideal
heating solution for passive house projects.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:36
ECD Architects recruiting for new English office
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ECD Architects, based in London and Glasgow and
established in 1980, is planning to open an office
in the north west of England later this year, and is now
advertising for several new roles.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:31
Manhattan modular apartments feature Wraptite membrane
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A new modular apartment building in New York has been fitted out with
Wraptite airtight membrane. East Broadway Residences is located on the
Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:28
Recycled building board now available from Ecomerchant
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AM Ecoboard, an Irish-manufactured construction
board made from one hundred per cent recycled
cardboard, is now available in the UK exclusively from
Ecomerchant.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 10:08
Ecological welcomes new internal insulation guidance
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Ecological Building Systems has
welcomed the publication of
new guidance from the Department
for Business, Energy & Industrial
Strategy on internally insulating the
external walls of existing buildings.
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Dulux Trade has launched its Airsure range of paints,
which are 99.9 per cent free of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs), to the Irish market.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 10:01
Ecological launch Inventer decentralised ventilation
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Ecological Building Systems has announced that it will exclusively
partner with Inventer Germany in the supply and distribution of
their innovative range of ventilation systems in Ireland and the UK.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 09:58
Welsh social housing to embrace passive house, timber & life cycle assessment
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The Welsh government has issued a new standard for social housing that requires an embodied carbon assessment, favours timber-based offsite construction, and bans fossil fuel boilers.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2022 09:52
UK sustainable building groups become UN centres of excellence
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At COP26, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recognised the UK’s Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF), along with South West College in Northern Ireland and the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, as international centres of excellence for high performance buildings.
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The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has launched its 2030 Climate Challenge, calling for urgent action to be taken by architects and the wider construction industry to tackle the climate emergency.
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Thursday, 04 November 2021 14:58
Climate action plan sets embodied carbon targets for construction
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Ireland’s new climate action plan, which was published on Thursday 4 November, contains the country’s first official targets for limiting the embodied carbon of construction materials.
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Wednesday, 03 November 2021 12:28
Poor ventilation a Covid risk in 40 per cent of classrooms, study finds
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Coventry University research has found that 40 per cent of primary school classrooms examined in a study did not have an adequate ventilation rate to combat the spread of Covid-19.
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Friday, 22 October 2021 10:03
AirMaster’s flagship MVHR awarded passive house certification
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SAV Systems has announced that the AirMaster AM 1000 has been
awarded passive house component certification in conjunction with
the company’s Danish partner, Airmaster A/S.
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Friday, 22 October 2021 10:00
Building sector must take the lead on embodied carbon
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Despite disappointment in the green building sector
at the government’s failure to address embodied
carbon in the Future Buildings Standard, the industry
possesses the knowledge, skills and supply chain to
take matters into its own hands and start drastically
cutting embodied carbon right now.
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