Oil price to stifle recovery — world's first zero carbon city — Victorian passive house  

Here's a few interesting links for your perusal. Apologies for the lack of updates recently, producing the new issue of the mag was a bit of a marathon, but we hope it was worth it. Normal service on the website should resume now.

International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol has warned that the price of oil could stifle global economic recovery over the next few years — a point we at Construct Ireland have made repeatedly in an Irish context, just as we're about to launch our Energise Ireland campaign to make Ireland oil free by 2025. In this radio programme, Birol warns that, "higher oil prices means putting pressure on the trade balance and through that economic recovery efforts can be well strangled." ABC Radio

A new way to duct HRVs: should they be pulling stale air from bedrooms rather than 'wet' rooms? Green Building Advisor

A Victorian home in the UK meets the passive house standard Green Building Advisor

New study finds solar panels are contagious Good.is

A profile of Masdar, the world's first "zero carbon city" Guardian (with pictures here)

Average Irish house prices could still be overvalued by up to 30% Irish Times

What will be the fate of architectural heritage in the Nama portfolio? Ireland after Nama

Natural gas: not as clean as we thought? Infrastructurist