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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