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DLR introduce Passivhaus standard

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  • #2
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Crazy. Who is going to (be able to) pay for this ?

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  • #3
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    0% VAT on building materials would lessen the cost far more than curtailing low energy construction methods


  • #4
    MOTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭MOTM


    BryanF wrote: »
    0% VAT on building materials would lessen the cost far more than curtailing low energy construction methods

    You could argue for 0% vat on a lot of things ahead of building materials. Healthy food, medicine etc but that's a whole different thread.

    As for DLR, I wonder what they look for in complying with Part L?


  • #5
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Meh....

    This is just lip service and would have no legal standing to enforce.


  • #6
    MOTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭MOTM


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Meh....

    This is just lip service and would have no legal standing to enforce.

    Exactly. If someone was going to comply with Irish building regs, but not PH (proprietary standard) is there a legal basis for DLR to stop them?


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  • #7
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    MOTM wrote: »
    You could argue for 0% vat on a lot of things ahead of building materials. Healthy food, medicine etc but that's a whole different thread.

    As for DLR, I wonder what they look for in complying with Part L?

    It's what they did in the uk. I live in an urban area, and imo house prices are going up too quickly again. if enough people complian the cost building housing is the cause of lack of supply, will si9 or part L be relaxed? Personally id rather see material costs reduced through vat similar to the uk

    I'm looking for alternative ways to save money on housing here ( not at the expense of the environment), as in the article/link above the CIF are saying it'll be 'too expensive'

    I see this as a positive step towards zero carbon buildings in use, and I urge people in dlr locality to support this section of the dev plan.


  • #8
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,171 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    In less than 20 years we have had 5 revisions to our "energy in building" regulations. That's an average of one every four years. By anyone standard that's intensive changes for an industry. The changes over the last three have been extremely seismic. Now, however bad it is, the building industry is a slow moving behemoth. With all these changes I'm afraid of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We are seeing a lack of housing supply based very much on cost of building versus return not being profitable at the moment. Expecting rising house prices to solve this issue is COMPLETELY the wrong attitude to have, and i agree with Bryan that we need to reduce supply costs without reducing standards.

    This however, only serves to make new housing more expensive in the medium term. The current Irish building regulations are among the most stringent in the world, and while passive is a fantastic goal to have, its too much too early.


  • #9
    Strolling Bones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Strolling Bones


    Whilst the ghost town like Dun Laoghaire High street is in a sharp decline for years that council concerned itsely with a massive vanity project

    A UCD report into fuel poverty published in 2002 found that our poorest houses lack basic energy saving measures - eg. 22% of homes without attic insulation in 2001. I know that was 14 years ago and that the study was nationwide but I think the authortity would have served it's peoplw better by ensuring that every home without exception at least has attic insulation.

    But that's DLRCC for you.


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