The 28th International Passive House Conference brought together experts and practitioners in April to discuss the world’s leading low energy building standard. Niall Crosson, group technical director at Ecological Building Systems, summarises this year’s event, which marked the 35th anniversary of the first passive house, and the 30th anniversary of the Passive House Institute.

Ireland must treat building decarbonisation as critical national infrastructure to protect households from future energy price shocks, according to a new policy scorecard launched recently.

One of the largest non-domestic passive house retrofits yet attempted in the UK, the £100 million Firoz Lalji Global Hub for the London School of Economics (LSE), will be the subject of a dedicated technical masterclass when the UK Passivhaus Conference returns to London this November for the first time in more than a decade.

Solar PV could be rolled out as standard under the Warmer Homes scheme, alongside a suite of enhanced retrofit grants for low-income households, landlords and businesses, under proposals reportedly being prepared for cabinet.

New fastener lengths for EJOT’s DDS-Z range enable soffit insulation depths of up to 375 mm to be installed easily and efficiently, with the screws still only requiring an embedment depth into concrete of just 25 mm.

In the first instalment of a new feature where we try to get into the heads of prominent people in green building, we asked the president of the European Straw Building Association to peer into the void, peer into his record collection, and peer into the future.

Ireland's Building Energy Rating system has moved to a simplified eight band scale, with a new A0 rating at the top reserved for zero emission buildings (ZEBs).

Building envelope specialists and energy systems experts will meet in Manchester in September as the AECB's annual conference tackles one of the most contested questions in low-energy construction: how fabric performance and energy supply should work together.