Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion

Mr. Seán Armstrong:

Article 2(23) relates to the whole life cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. There is no intention to emphasise one over the other. We are aware that quite often on the databases that are currently available the certification for the embodied carbon in construction products is grid to gate because that includes the manufacturer of the product where the embodied carbon is. The whole life cycle, however, means that the embodied emissions are added to the operational emissions to get the total emissions. Obviously, the------

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