Yesterdays #RoomToImprove :A comment on Building Regulations & forthcoming amendments @bregsforum

Yesterday’s Room to Improve on RTE1 with Dermot Bannon MRIAI became a Twitter trending topic in Ireland last night and is a great source of discussion between myself and fellow tweeting architects. And yesterdays episode raised a very important issue Read More …

Building Regulations Forum set up…

After writing copiously on the deficiencies of the Irish Building Control system, it’s great to see a new web site (and social media prescence) set up to debate precisely the changes and what effect they’ll have on consumers and professionals: Read More …

The Building Regulation changes and Self Builders: one for @bregsforum

The forthcoming changes in the Building Regulations in March 2014 (S.I. No. 80 of 2013 BUILDING CONTROL (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2013) have big repercussions for residential self-builders. Nearly 60% of houses constructed in Ireland are self-builds (source NaSBA) and with the Read More …