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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Mr. Mark Christal: I welcome the opportunity to present to the committee on the topic of carbon and energy within the construction industry and outline the actions and initiatives that Enterprise Ireland is engaged with to support companies in this area. I am the divisional manager for food and sustainability with Enterprise Ireland. I would like to introduce my colleagues who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Mr. Pat Barry: I thank the committee for the invitation to present at the committee today. I am here with my colleague, Ms Marion Jammet. The Irish Green Building Council is currently working in close collaboration with the industry and key stakeholders to develop a roadmap to decarbonise Ireland's built environment. The draft version of this roadmap will be published this week and open...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

...Control and Market Surveillance Office. I will set the scene by giving an outline of what we do. We are quite a new office. We were set up in 2019, which saw the function in Dublin City Council becoming a shared service with the National Building Control Office. Then, in 2020, we were asked to take on the lead role for the national market surveillance office. Effectively, the office...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Mr. Neil Kerrigan: I thank the Senator for the question. The technology centre is a unique piece of infrastructure. It involves industry working with the State on agreed problems. It is collaboration around agreed problems. We have worked with a number of sectors and construction is one of the sectors that has not had a technology centre. It allows industry, Government and academia to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Ms Marion Jammet: Measuring is critical. We are working with the Green Building Council in other countries, where we can see that, as soon as you start measuring, there is innovation in the industry. We have seen this from talking to our French colleagues. If people start measuring, it starts to have an impact on innovation, construction materials and reducing emissions. We must push...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Mr. Neil Kerrigan: I will speak about removing barriers. There was an earlier question about collaboration. Enterprise Ireland has been and is working with the construction and digital innovation group that has been set up by the construction sector group. It is chaired by P.J. Rudden. The group is working on seven actions. Action 7 was a build digital project, which just started in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I will tease out matters a little further with the representatives of Enterprise Ireland. There is a considerable opportunity when it comes to off-site construction. We are traditionally held as a nation of builders, particularly in rural Ireland. Longford is a case in point. Mr. O'Colmain said he visited Framespace Solutions. Porteus and Procon are also based in Longford. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...grade C16 timber, which is great for us. In the context of embodied carbon, it is not just about the new building materials. This is something I learned from Mr. Barry and the Green Building Council. The London energy transformation initiative, LETI, refers to recycled materials which are brick skin. I have worked on projects where there is an internal timber skin and the external...