Irish Green Building Council

The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) was launched in 2011, by organisations and businesses from the entire value chain of the built environment. These include universities, professional institutes, local authorities, leading contractors, NGOs, architects, engineers, energy companies and leading national and transnational companies. All are united in one common goal to provide leadership to accelerate the rate of change in Ireland to a sustainable built environment. What we are working on right now: - Energy Renovation & Retrofit - Green Finance - Green Public Procurement (GPP) - Whole Life Carbon & LCA - Circularity in the Build Environment - Net Zero Carbon - Water Efficiency - Biodiversity Our Activities The Irish Green Building Council is looking to transform the Irish industry to sustainable practices through policy creation, education and provision of tools to measure and accelerate progress. - Advocacy: The IGBC is at the heart of inputting into national policy affecting the Irish built environment. The IGBC is involved in supporting large scale energy renovation and green finance projects. - Education, Training and Events: The IGBC host regular green building events and education modules. Training courses provided by the IGBC include green building certification such as LEED, BREEAM and the Home Performance Index, as well as Whole Life Carbon training. - Tools: The IGBC encourage the provision of sustainable building tools including: -> * Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) Platform to enable the mainstreaming of life cycle assessment for buildings in Ireland. * The Home Performance Index, Ireland's national certification for sustainable new homes * Carbon Designer for Ireland, A free early-stage whole life cycle carbon assessment tool for the Irish region. * The CO2 Performance Ladder, a tool for green procurement RCN: 20155568