Summer 2016: A book will be published by Dublin City Council titled 'Built to Last - Energy Efficiency in Pre-1945 Historic Dwellings in Dublin City'. Building Life Consultancy with Fergal McGirl Architects, IHER will be the authors. The book arises from the Dublin City Heritage Plan. It will featrure a jumber of firsts including measuring U-values and a-values.
September 2015: the eagerly awaited publication of 'Historic Scotland Technical paper 15 - Assessing risks in insulation retrofits using hygrothermal software tools – Heat and moisture transport in internally insulated stone walls' authored by Joseph Little, Benat Arregi and engineer Calina Ferraro
2013 was a good year:
July 2013: A consortium led by Building Life Consultancy (including IHER and Fergal McGirl Architects) wins the tender to create a book for Dublin City Council and the Heritage Council: 'Built to Last- Energy Efficiency in Pre-1945 Historic Dwellings in Dublin City'. The research will broaden the range of knowledge and improve the level of guidance of old buildings. The book should be published early Spring 2014
April 2013: The Monkstown EnerPHit wins the 'Green Residential Building Award' in thre Annual Green Awards ceremony
October 2102: a semi-detached house in Monkstown, Dublin, that Joseph Little Architects extended and retrofitted is certified Ireland's first EnerPHit project (and the fifth worldwide). It can be visited as part of Open House in October 2013.
As far as we know, we have achieved a number of firsts in teaching building professionals:
1) Starting in Jan 201RIAI Designing Low Energy Domestic Refurbs CPD was the first course to teach practicing architects DEAP (a mandatory compliance tool) independent of those being trained as BER assessors.
2) This course was also the first to teach practicing architects about low energy, compliant design that was not manufacturer/supplier-led, and the first to teach about energy-efficicnt retrofit as a standalone topic nationwide.
3) We taught the first thermal bridge training course in the country (two years before NSAI's Thernal Bridge Modellers Scheme was launched)
4) We have taught all the Wufi® Pro Training Workshop CPDs in Ireland and all but two of them in the UK. The first Wufi 2D course to run in the UK or Ireland will take place in September 2013