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:

With regard to embodied carbon, the embodied carbon calculation methodologies are the main initiative with regard to addressing embodied carbon. There are working groups working on that and a series of actions in the climate action plan to address embodied carbon in buildings and put in place frameworks to calculate embodied carbon. Initially, these frameworks normally target new buildings, but they can equally be applied to existing buildings. That would have to be developed as part of those frameworks and methodologies. It would be a matter of capturing it in the proposed framework for embodied carbon.

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