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Cover page of the RIAI report titled “RIAI Design for Manufacture and Assembly / DfMA Report,”

Design for Manufacture and Assembly / DfMA Report

21.10.22 | The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

This report presents how using good design to facilitate MMC can be achieved without losing design quality. The report aims to increase the understanding amongst architects, related professions, manufacturers, and contractors and their clients about what MMC means and designing for it, and how these issues can be embedded into construction and building design processes.

Cover page of the Build Digital report titled “Material Passports – Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions,”

Material Passports – Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions

20.03.25 | Project Ireland 2040

This literature review report embarks on a comprehensive exploration using a mixed qualitative methodology to refine papers for Material Passports and identify the gaps of their current stated. Based on the gap analysis a proposed framework for Dynamic Material Passports will be proposed for future research.

Cover image of the Journal of Constructional Steel Research published by Elsevier.

Experimental Axial-Compressive Behaviour of Bare Cold-Formed-Steel Studs with Semirigid-Track and Ideal-Hinged Boundary Conditions

20.05.24 | Sohini Mishra, Ciaran McNally, Andrzej M. Wrzesien, Daniel McCrum (UCD)

This research experimentally investigates bare-CFS-studs' axial compressive behaviour with BCT, considering, for the first time, the combined effect of the tracks' warping rigidity, stud-to-track gap, non-linear connection stiffness, and bare studs' various cross-sectional slenderness.

BIM Guide for SMEs

20.09.22 | The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

This document is intended to support the implementation of BIM technology for sole practitioners and SMEs. The aim is for businesses to realise a unified, usable, co-ordinated approach to Building Information Modelling in a design environment.

A digital graphic with the logos of the World Green Building Council and the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC).

Minimum Energy Performance Standards and Renovation Trajectories in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive

17.08.24 | Irish Green Building Council

The publication sets out a sequence for how national governments could introduce policy measures and guidance to facilitate the successful implementation of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and renovation trajectories for European buildings, as outlined in the EPBD.

Group of people in hard hats and hi-vis vests touring a manufacturing facility with blue overhead crane.

Kilsaran Precast Plant Visit

26.11.25 | Arthurstown, Kill, Co. Kildare, W91 CP73

Kilsaran Precast Plant Visit

Illustration titled “Building a Circular Ireland – A Roadmap for a Resource Efficient Circular Built Environment,” featuring the map of Ireland within a multicoloured circular graphic, surrounded by icons of buildings, cranes, vehicles, wind turbines, and cyclists, symbolising sustainability and circular economy in construction.

Building a Circular Ireland

17.05.25 | Irish Green Building Council

The approach of the ‘Building a Circular Ireland’ roadmap (2025-2040) is to focus on strategies for prevention and reuse, better design, resource efficiency, and the added value of innovative business models.

Graphic titled “BUSI2030 – National Upskilling Roadmap 2030 for the Built Environment,” featuring an illustration of hands holding the Earth with green buildings, wind turbines, solar panels, and birds, representing sustainability and environmental innovation.

National Upskilling Roadmap 2030 for the Built Environment

17.03.24 | CIF, Irish Green Building Council, LOETB, Technological University of the Shannon

The project’s scope is to analyse the current and future skills gaps in sustainable construction for 2030. It aims to create a National Upskilling Roadmap for Ireland to achieve its climate targets for housing, retrofitting, renewables and the decarbonisation of Ireland’s built environment.

Building a Zero Carbon Ireland

17.10.22 | Irish Green Building Council

The ‘Building a Zero Carbon Ireland: A Roadmap to decarbonise Ireland’s Built Environment across its Whole Life Cycle’ report presents a set of recommendations to halve our sector emissions by 2030, and to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment by 2050.