Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion
Dr. Oliver Kinnane:
Yes. That is at different levels of resolution. The data for residential from the SEAI is very good and well maintained but there is far less data available for non-residential and commercial buildings, and even less for infrastructure. We have a number of different methods where we try to calculate the embodied carbon across the built environment by looking at import and export of materials. We produce a good deal of concrete and cement here and we export much of that. We import a good deal of metals and other materials. We can work it out based on those values.
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