This interesting conundrum rose its head today and whilst I’d normally tweet; the blog gives me more space (and characters) to explain. • We’re just about to submit commencement information for a new house in Mayo. • I’m collating the Read More …
I’m currently working alongside Fergus (Certified Passivhaus Consultant) at Comfort Solutions providing Passivhaus consultancy on a new house in Mayo. I’m not the architect on this one but we’re providing Passivhaus/PHPP modelling together on a new one-off house in Mayo Read More …
This is my very short summary of the Building Regulation changes in S.I. No.9 of 2014, am I missing anything big? • Anyone can design and submit planning applications • The new Building Regulations for residential clients apply to new Read More …
I was reading THIS POST recently by Jim Connolly on why ‘Offering free consultations can be an expensive mistake’ and I urge all architects (and any professional for that matter) to implement the advice immediately. The good news is that Read More …
As the post title says, this may not be one of the most exciting looking materials but we think it’s pretty cool and can be used in a variety of different circumstances: Essentially Calsitherm by Ecological Building Systems is a Read More …
Below are the three opinion posts I recently wrote for the BRegsBlog on ‘Who should be Designers and Assigned Certifiers?’: 1. Who Should be Designer & Assigned Certifier? – Architectural Technologists? 2. Who Should be Designer & Assigned Certifier? – Read More …
here’s a few site photos of the house getting a little closer to completion in County Longford. The ‘internal’ window giving impression house was built in stages came out well and the mezzanine bridge looking cool too.
What possible connection could there be between the Passivhaus methodology and Triathlon? If you’re in the Passivhaus world then you couldn’t help but notice the split between The Passive House Institute based in Germany and the Passive House Institute US. Read More …
With the potential increased liability of the Building Regulations Amendments (S.I No. 9 of 2014) I thought it best to arm myself with a 100mm diameter sphere: Part K (1.1.19) requires that: “In buildings which are likely to be used Read More …
Rather than the Government boosting construction activity, the Building Regulations Amendments that came into force on March 1st this year (S.I. No.9 of 2014) have had the exact opposite effect. This PIECE IN THE IRISH TIMES gives probably the best Read More …
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