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Little did we know when campaigning for the Fingal energy standard in 2005-06 that Construct Ireland would have a direct impact on Ikea’s first Irish store. Driven by a combination of Fingal’s requirements and their own renewable energy policy, the Swedish retail giant has invested in the largest ground source heat pump installation in Ireland and the UK, along with a well-thought biomass system fed by an onsite waste stream and a host of other green measures, as John Hearne reports
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Construct Ireland is the only magazine dedicated exclusively to sustainable construction in Ireland. Since first publishing in January 2003, Construct Ireland
has played a key role in raising consciousness of the need for low
energy, low impact, healthy buildings in Ireland, affecting the design
and construction of tens of thousands of new buildings.
The concept of producing a magazine focused exclusively on sustainable
building in a relatively small market such as Ireland may have seemed
foolhardy in 2003. Fossil energy was cheap, Ireland was in the grip of
a record-breaking construction boom characterised by quantity over
quality, and addressing climate change was not perceived as anything
like a priority for Irish businesses.
In the intervening years, however, everything has changed, and
sustainable building has moved from the fringes to become a central
concern for all new construction projects. Construct Ireland
has been at the front line, driving that change on, whilst
simultaneously evolving into the most widely-read, most influential
construction magazine in Ireland.
The impacts of Construct Ireland are numerous and include
everything from helping specifiers to source innovative sustainable
materials and technologies, to successfully campaigning for policy
change for the built environment.
Construct Ireland drove forward groundbreaking local energy
initiatives which ultimately resulted in changes to building
regulations for all new homes including 40% energy and carbon dioxide
reductions, mandatory use of renewable energy and air-tightness testing
during construction. Construct Ireland even played a part in
accelerating the introduction of energy ratings for new homes by 18
months, as a result of lobbying through the Joint Oireachtas Committee
on the Environment in 2005.
Published on a bimonthly basis, Construct Ireland is an
ABC audited, full colour, perfect bound publication, printed on paper
from managed forests. Construct Ireland is produced as a carbon neutral publication.
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