About
Our Objectives
Our Activities
Our Network
Annual Reports & Accounts
The Irish Green Building Council – IGBC, is a membership non-profit organisation that was launched in 2011 with organisations and businesses from across the value chain of the built environment.
These include architects, engineers, contractors, universities, professional institutes, NGOs, local authorities, energy companies, leading national and transnational companies.
All are united in one common goal to accelerate the transformation of the built environment to one that is sustainable through leadership, research, education, and providing policy input to national and local government.
Our Objectives
The Irish Green Building Council aims to:
- Provide a source of leadership for sustainability and quality in the built environment
- Promote and assist in the provision of credible metrics for measuring progress towards the end goal of sustainability
- Provide a source of resources to companies transitioning their activities towards more sustainable practices
- Be central to the alignment of the policies of organisations seeking to achieve sustainability in the built environment
Our Activities
The Irish Green Building Council is looking to transform the Irish industry to sustainable practices through policy creation, education and the 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.
- We have developed a roadmap to decarbonise Ireland’s built environment, outlining a set of actions to halve our sector emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. In this Government Policy Scorecard, we highlight gaps and progress.
- We support Green Public Procurement training public procurers in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and developing guidance on incorporating Level(s), LCA, LCC and IAQ indicators into public procurement. We are also piloting a GPP Tool called CO2 Performance Ladder.
- We are bringing buildings into the Circular Economy, aiming to move the industry to a low-carbon circular model of construction and away from a take-make-waste model. Have a look at our “Building a Circular Economy Roadmap”
Education, Training and Events
- The IGBC host regular green building events and webinars.
- We have a learning platform with on-demand courses in Embodied Carbon, Life Cycle Costing, Water Efficiency, Circularity, Biodiversity and LEED.
- Training is available in green building certifications such as the Home Performance Index and LEED
- Training in Whole Life Carbon analysis is regularly available. Find upcoming training courses here
- We also have a specific hub on Whole Life Carbon
- We created a section of our website, the Learning Hub, where you can find a mix of webinars, reading materials and links to key resources on energy & carbon, circularity, health & wellbeing, Certification, Sustainable Communities and Finance.
- We host quarterly Communities of Practice on Whole Life Carbon, ESG, Green Public Procurement and Biodiversity where members can learn from and network with their peers.
Tools
The IGBC encourage the provision of sustainable building tools including:
- Environmental Product Declarations Platform to enable the mainstreaming of life cycle assessment for buildings in Ireland.
- The Home Performance Index, Ireland’s first national quality and sustainability assessment system for new housing
- CO2 Performance Ladder: a Green Procurement Tool
- Carbon Designer for Ireland, a free early-stage whole life cycle carbon assessment tool for the Irish region.
- Construction Materials Exchange (CMEx), a user-friendly digital platform that connects organisations so that they can exchange or trade excess construction materials between them.
- Comprehensive listing of green building certifications accredited professional (LEED, BREEAM and HPI).
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Network
The IGBC is affiliated with the World Green Building Council as an established member. This is a network of over 80 national Green Building Councils worldwide with a total membership of over 27,000 organisations and businesses making it the largest organisation globally influencing the green building market. We participate in the European Network of GBCs to influence policy at a European level. Pat Barry, CEO of IGBC, is currently chairing the ERN.
Along with four other partners – University of Galway, Trinity College, University College Dublin and the University of Cork, the IGBC have created Construct Innovate, Ireland’s National Research Centre for Construction Technology and Innovation.
Want to join our mission to transform the Irish construction and property sector into a global leader in quality and sustainability?
The IGBC is a company limited by guarantee registered under Part 18 of the Companies Act 2014, company number 492948. The IGBC is a registered charity approved by the Charities Regulator. Registered Charity Number (RCN): 20155568. The IGBC is committed to working effectively and with integrity by being transparent and accountable in all our activities and by adopting best practice procedures. To this end, the IGBC is in compliance with the Charities Governance Code, Ireland’s code of practice for good governance in the community, voluntary and charity sectors.
The IGBC offsets its transport-related carbon emissions by annually sponsoring trees with the Native Woodland Trust.
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Annual Reports & Accounts
See below for details on our Annual Reports and Accounts.
