Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Mr. Se?n Armstrong:

Building capacity through the public procurement system, which is focused on modern methods of construction, is a way of incentivising the industry to deliver modern methods of construction to the public sector. As well as that, however, building regulations and procurement processes tend to be performance-based. This is why the introduction of requirements and accounting methodologies for embodied carbon are key. When we introduce the embodied carbon accounting methodology, then we will have a recognised framework for measuring embodied carbon in construction technologies. We can then identify which construction systems have lower or higher embodied carbon emissions and introduce performance requirements for these emissions. The introduction-----

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