Since April this year, it is mandatory (for new houses & extensions >40m2) that the works are ‘signed-off by one of three registered professionals: 1. Registered Architect 2. Chartered Engineer or 3. Registered Building Surveyor. There has been much debate Read More …
Below is a mosaic of the photos from the site visit this morning on the first SI9 house we’re undertaking for a one-off house in County Mayo. The oak trusses come from Glenfort:
As an avid reader of Passivhaus books (actually any books on a variety of subjects); below are two I would heartily recommend to get you started on Passivhaus theory and onto more advance topics. 1. The Passivhaus Handbook by Janet Read More …
Casting Notice: House Hunters International: Renovation is a one hour television show currently airing on the Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV) in America. The first half-hour of the series is designed to de-mystify the international home-buying process, by going Read More …
Below are a selection of projects that we’re awaiting decisions on from planning, fingers crossed they’ll all go through: From the moment the Council requests Further Information, we have 6 months to respond (which can be extended by a further Read More …
The recent ESRI report HERE forecasts that Ireland will need 90,000 new homes by 2021 and recently in the Nzeb conference last week Minister Damien English called for the passive house standard to be introduced in housing (link to BRegs Read More …
I wrote this post in 2012 on why you need to think smaller when designing and building a house. Two years later and the situation has got worse, not better. With the banks requiring that you need a 20% deposit Read More …
This weeks SUNDAY supplement in the Sunday Times (Ireland edition) had a piece on Irish Starchitect Dermot Bannon & his new book that is shortly to be released (Love Your Home); which I am eagerly anticipating. In the Sunday Time’s Read More …
Below is slideshow of project on site at moment of rural house in Mayo; 2 storey at front – single at rear – some lovely big glass openings to the south. Not a Passivhaus but a lot of features trickled Read More …
I popped up my professional qualifications and accreditations on the home page yesterday (also below): But what do the qualifications really mean? It means I take my work and training seriously; the Accreditations take the form of Continuing Practice Development Read More …
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