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:

I will talk about the training in the first place and then hand the regulation of the industry across to Mr. Barry. Certainly, as I said in my statement, across all educational levels we need to make a massive transformation and start supplying people with the correct skills. There have been many good interventions. The nZeb centres of excellence have been a great addition. Incentivisation of the construction industry to join those training courses can make it aware of these kinds of installation issues. I did one before Christmas and I learned a good deal and it was well worth the trip. Training is a huge part of it. Certainly in higher education, we need to do a great deal as well, and through HEI investment that we have got we plan to do much reform of curricula across all the architecture schools around the country to try to train architects in designing for retrofit and designing for energy efficiency as a priority.

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