Initial Residential Buildings Sector Workshop – Rural Areas

A copy of the presentations can be downloaded at http://www.slideshare.net/IrishGBC/build-upon-initial-residential-buildings-sector-workshop-rural-areas. 

A copy of the workshop’s report is available here. 

About the Process

Article 4 of the Energy Efficiency Directive requires Member States to define long-term strategies for stimulating energy efficiency of the buildings sector. The Department of Energy, Communications and Natural Resources is therefore tasked with publishing a National Renovation Strategy V.2 by 30th April 2017, covering buildings in the commercial, residential and public building sectors.

The details of this strategy are critical to deliver a “fully decarbonised built environment that delivers a better quality of life for all”. How will we finance the long term investment strategy required for our building stock over the next 35 years? How will we reach our climate targets? All these questions will be answered by Ireland’s National Renovation Strategy V.2.

In 2016, the BUILD UPON project will bring together public authorities and a critical mass of key stakeholders across Ireland, empowering them to work in partnership to design and implement the v2.0 National Renovation Strategy. The first series of workshops in the spring of 2016 are designed to allow stakeholders to explore all initiatives that could allow us to move towards our vision. In the second part of the year, workshops will aim at prioritising measures and better defining how they could be implemented in Ireland. For further information on this process, please click here.

About the Workshop:

In particular, the aim of this workshop is to explore all measures that could be taken in Ireland to move towards large-scale deep-renovation in the RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS SECTOR (RURAL AREAS).

09.30am Registration & Networking

Optional informal tour of the Cloughjordan eco-village starting at 09.50am

10.30am Chair Welcome – Opening introduction by Pat Barry, Executive Director, IGBC

10.35am Setting the scene – Paul Kenny, CEO, Tipperary Energy Agency

10.45am Introduction to Build Upon – Vision & Survey Results by Marion Jammet, Business Development Manager, IGBC

11.00am Participants Introduction

11.30am Session 1: Tackling the Awareness Issue – The role of the Local Communities

Clare Watson, University College Cork

01.00pm Lunch break

02.00pm Session 2: Awareness – Targeting specific groups of the society

Albert Jordan, Department of communications energy and natural resources

Jonathan Griffin, Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency

03.00pm Coffee break

03.20pm Session 3: Business Models – Financing deep renovation in rural Ireland

Ruth Buggie, SEAI

Alexandra Hamilton, Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency – Community Energy Loan Scheme

Paul Kenny, CEO, Tipperary Energy Agency – Super Homes Scheme

04.45pm Concluding remarks and next steps

05.10pm Workshop ends

Workshop Facilitator: Davie Philip

Workshop Rapporteur: Seamus Hoyne, Head of Department of Lifelong Learning, LIT

For further information on this event, please contact Marion[a]igbc.ie.