Jane Anderson has over 20 years experience in the construction field, having originally studied Architecture. She joined PE North West Europe from BRE Global in 2010 and has been involved in a number of IBU EPD projects. She has worked on the development of Life Cycle Assessment methodologies for construction products and their integration in the building level assessment tools, BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes, and co-authored the Green Guide to Specification and worked on the development of the environmental design tool, Envest2. She is an UK expert to the CEN TC 350 standards committee.
Paul Boylan is the Country Asset Head for Citi Realty Services in Ireland. Paul has been with Citi for over 13 years. Paul has played a major part in the delivery of key construction, engineering and environmental initiatives/projects during his time with Citi. Paul is a member of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland and a member of the Dublin Docklands Business Forum Environmental committee. In the last 4 years, Paul has been the proud recipient of four Energy/Environment Awards including the 2010 Green Financial Institution of the year, 2010 SEAI Energy Awareness Award and the 2009 Outstanding Energy Manager of the Year
Vivienne Brophy, qualified as an architectural technologist and architect, has long-term experience in architectural practice in the design, construction, and site supervision of buildings. Vivienne left architectural practice to join the UCD Energy Research Group in 1994 and undertook post graduate research in the area of sustainable design. Vivienne is a Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology and a Director of the UCD Energy Research Group. Her most recent publication is the second edition of ‘A Green Vitruvius – Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design’ with J Owen Lewis.
Chris Bird has worked as a freelance journalist for 20 years writing about sustainable building for The Observer and SelfBuild & Design. He is the author of of Local Sustainable Homes which concentrates on how individuals, groups and communities are managing their building projects. He helps run the Building & Housing Group for Transition Town Totnes where they promote using local materials such as timber, straw, hemp, earth, stone, wool to boost local economies, help create resilient communities and bring back a regional identity to buildings. Chris currently lives in a well insulated home with solar thermal and PV panels in Totnes.
Merritt Bucholz was educated at Cornell University (B.Arch 1993) and Princeton University (M.Arch 1995). (SAUL). Bucholz McEvoy Architects was founded by Merritt Bucholz and Karen McEvoy in 1996. Merritt leads research and development in design methodology, building technology, and energy systems. Merritt has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, and has lectured at Princeton University, Cornell University, the School of Architecture at University College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology. Merritt is the founding Professor of Architecture at the new School of Architecture at the University of Limerick.
Adam Cohen is a principal partner in Structures Design/Build, LLC. He holds a degree in architecture from the University of Maryland and is a Certified Passive House Consultant, LEED AP and a Certified Green Professional. He designed and built the first US Passivhaus public school. In the US Adam is recognised as a national leader in the Passivhaus movement and has presented technical papers at both national and international Passivhaus conferences. Certified as one of the first Passivhaus consultants in the US, he is currently the vice-chairman of the technical committee of the Passive House Institute US.
Eve-Anne Cullinan is the Executive Director of MCO Projects specialising in sustainable design and 4D Planning. Director-in-charge and Project Director role on strategic, regeneration and innovative demonstration projects including: Creative Sligo Initiative; Fr Collins Park; Great Northern Haven; Drimnagh IAP; SEAI Sustainable Energy Communities; Assisted Living Community Projects; The Digital Hub Phase I. Eve-Anne's particular expertise is in local area development and creative & cultural industries. Eve-Anne is currently Chair of the Irish Film Institute and a Director of ArArq Ireland and the Darklight Digital Festival.
Joseph Curtin is senior researcher on the IIEA’s climate change and energy group. He is the author of two reports on home retrofit for energy efficiency – Thinking Deeper: Financing Options for Home Retrofit and Greenprint for a National Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme. He has also worked with the OECD Environmental Performance Division analysing the climate and energy policy of countries such as Norway, Israel and Germany for published assessments. He is guest lecturer on EU climate change and energy policy on MSc courses at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Joe Dowling is General Manager of Georgia Tech Ireland, an applied research institute based in Athlone Ireland. With 20 years of experience in industry, all of it in the R&D sector, Dowling brings experience in applying research results in real world commercial applications and products. His field of expertise includes RFID, 3G/WCDMA, HSDPA, WiMax, embedded systems & software, FPGA's, and system engineering. He is named as an inventor on 3 granted US patents and 1 pending. He is a chartered engineer, member of IEEE and IET (UK).
Michelle Fagan, Dip Arch (Hons), B Arch Sc (Hons) MRIAI RIBA ARB. Michelle graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990 and worked with Newenham Mulligan and Associates. She spent four years in Germany working with Rhode Kellerman Wawrowsky in Frankfurt and Arge Hoger Hare/RKW in Berlin. Before setting up FKL Architects, she spent a year with Ahrends Burton and Koralek (ABK) Architects in Dublin. FKL Architects is a design-orientated practice committed to the highest standards in contemporary architecture. Currently Michelle is serving a two year term as President of the RIAI.
Kevin Fay is a qualified Structural Engineer and Contracts Director with GEM GROUP, one of Ireland's leading construction and joinery manufacturing companies. Kevin has over 20 years experience in both design and construction. Gem is currently involved with the design, manufacture and installation of the untreated sustainable jatoba hardwood timber curtain walling to the “New Students Centre” for the London School of Economics (LSE) currently achieving a BREEAM design rating of Outstanding and an EPC A rating
Peter Flynn is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer and a Director of the Building Engineering group in Arup (Dublin office). He has gained considerable experience in the design of prestigious educational and commercial developments, primarily in the UK. He joined Arup in early 2002, having previously worked with multidisciplinary practices BDP and RMJM in London. His principal interest is in the role of the structural engineer in the holistic design of buildings and in promoting a closer integration between with clients, architects and service engineers when developing a project.
Paul Harris has over twenty five years trading and structuring experience across bond and derivatives markets having worked in London and Dublin for several leading investment banks. He established the carbon capability of Bank of Ireland in 2004 and has delivered a number of market firsts including the first emissions-related derivative traded with a corporate customer. He chairs the Expert Carbon Group for Irelands’ Green IFSC initiative and is a member of the Revenue Technical Group on Emissions Trading. He is also Co-Course Director of the DCU Post-graduate Certificate on Sustainable Energy Finance.
Jonathan Hines has been the director of Architype, UK specialists in Passivehaus design since 1989, and established the West office in 1996. Jonathan’s life-long focus has been on achieving sustainability through design. Architype recently received Passivhaus certification on two 2nd level schools. Jonathan has led the team for many of Architype’s pioneering buildings including the Genesis Project, Architype’s Hereford office, and St Luke’s Primary School. He regularly lectures at universities, and is a member of the Design Review Panel of the Design Commission for Wales. Jonathan like to relax by taming his wild organic garden.
Phil Hogan TD was appointed Minister for Environment, Community & Local Government in 2011. He represents the constituency of Carlow Kilkenny. He was first elected to the Dáil in 1989 and previously served as a Senator from 1987 – 1989. He was Fine Gael’s Spokesman for Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the 30th Dáil. Phil served as Minister for State in Department of Finance in the last Fine Gael Government. In Fine Gael, he has had a number of positions including Parliamentary Party Chairman, Director of Organisation, Enterprise Spokesman as well as Consumer Affairs, Regional Affairs and Food Industry positions.
Seamus Hoyne is a Lecturer in LIT Tipperary and the Manager of the Tipperary Energy Agency. He has been working in the energy sector since 1998. His research areas have been on better utilisation of biomass resoruces and integrated energy systems. He has been coordinating the SERVE project since 2007 which focuses on retrofitting 400 buildings, developing the eco village in Cloughjordan and installing over 6MW of renewable energy heating systems. He is currently coordinating the Build Up Skills Ireland Project which aims to develop a road map for the qualification and training of craftworkers in the construction sector.
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Marie Hunt established the research & consultancy department at CBRE Ireland which is now regarded as one of the most authoritative sources of property information in the Irish and Northern Irish markets. A regular media commentator on property matters, Marie produces a range of property market publications and is responsible for co-ordinating and managing all areas of the CBRE research function. Her work tracks current and emerging trends in all sectors of the commercial real estate sector. In 2008, Marie authored a report looking af the issue of energy efficiency and sustainability from the perspective of the property industry.
Dr Craig Jones is a Principal Associate at Sustain, a leading carbon reduction company that seeks solutions to complex environmental challenges. He is considered as one of the world’s leading figures on embodied carbon assessment and is an expert LCA practitioner. Previously, at the University of Bath, he was part of the Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT) where he created the Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE) database that lists the embodied energy and embodied carbon for hundreds of building materials. Since its release, ICE has experienced strong interest and has now been distributed to over 2,500 professionals worldwide.
Adrian Joyce is the Secretary General of EuroACE, the European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings. He is also the Campaign Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, which has been initiated by EuroACE in order to bring about a threefold increase in renovation rates of existing buildings by 2020. Adrian is an architect who, having graduated from UCD, spent 17 years in private practice before working full-time in architectural policy. He was the Practice Director of the RIAI before moving to Brussels to join the staff at the Secretariat of the Architects’ Council of Europe where he became Director before leaving in July 2011.
Brian Kavanagh is a Director of Kavanagh Tuite Architects and was Vice-President of the RIAI in 2005. He is currently chairman of the RIAI Practice Committee. He is co-author of the RIAI Good Practice Guide (GPG) which is the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland's Quality Management Handbook for its membership. Brian is responsible for many major projects, with special emphasis on master planning, third level educational building and commercial developments. He was responsible for the design of the first certified Passive House multi residential development in UK or Ireland, Roebuck Hall student resident, UCD, Dublin.
Mikael Koch has a Masters Degree in Architecture from Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen. He has been employed in the building component industry and architectural companies since 1984. He was head of the design department at Erik Herlow Design 2004-2008. He is a lecturer at Copenhagen institute of future studies, Center for Industrial Architecture Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He has been the Chief Advisor on Sustainability at the Danish Association of Architectural Firms since 2008. He has been a Founding Board member of the Green Building Council Denmark since 2010.
Philip Lee, Managing Partner, Philip Lee Solicitors, is an expert in European and Irish Competition law. Philip has utilised his specialist knowledge to focus and advise on competition law as it applies to deregulated and liberalised sectors of industry such as energy. With a background in energy law and telecommunications regulation from his eight years as a legal advisor to Shell International and as a consultant to multinational enterprises on the application of European and international law. Philip is the author of Public Procurement Law, the first book analysing and explaining the procurement directives.
Owen Lewis retired as Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in March 2012. Previously Professor of Architectural Science at UCD Dublin, he was Principal of the UCD College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Vice–President of the university in 2006. He founded the UCD Energy Research Group in 1975 and was its Director until 2008. He was Director of Innovation and R+D in the utility Bord na Móna 2006 to 2008. In 1976 he co-founded the Solar Energy Society of Ireland. Professor Lewis has published nearly 200 papers and books as author, joint author or editor.
Joseph Little, MSc Architecture – Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies, has been a member of the RIAI since 2003 and was the first architect to join Éasca in 2007. His practice focuses on low energy, environmental and acoustic forms of construction. He lectures widely and has written repeatedly for Construct Ireland magazine on appropriate materials, detailing and health in buildings. He launched his Building Life Consultancy as a service to the construction industry and other architects to facilitate a step-change in knowledge of building physics, thermal bridging and health in buildings.
Rufus Logan is the Director of BRE Scotland, a lead provider of technical and consultancy support in Scotland. Areas of particular focus are sustainable building design; energy performance of buildings; innovation support and professional training services. Since joining BRE in 2002, Rufus has been responsible for the creation and delivery of a wide range of strategic projects including BRE's Innovation Park and Visitor Centre and the SmartLIFE project. SmartLIFE is an EU supported programme which and oversaw a build programme of over 100 new, affordable homes using modern methods of construction built to the best sustainable principles.
Darren McCamphill is a Senior Building Control surveyor in Belfast Building Control and has been with the Service for 12 years. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Building Control (Northern Ireland) division of the organisation. He has a particular interest in sustainability and completed an MSc in Climate Change and Sustainable Development. A major element of his studies at this time involved completion of research into compliance levels of construction work with the requirements of "Conservation of Fuel and Power" Regulations.
Brian Moran re-joined Hines in 2011 having worked with the firm in Russia in the 1990s. In-between he ran his own successful real estate development management and advisory firm in Dublin and became the market leader in the provision of development advisory and project management services on large scale urban regeneration projects in Ireland. With a background in architecture and urban design, he has been involved in many large scale urban regeneration plans in his career and is currently Chair of the ULI European Urban Regeneration Council.
Derek Mowlds, Senior Project Manager, PM Group has over 15 years experience in project management, multi-disciplinary design team management and building services design, on complex projects across many sectors. He has project experience in developing sustainable strategies and planning and design solutions. He is currently Chair of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) in Ireland and has also had a number of articles published, including Commissioning and Commissioning Management and An Introduction to Cleanroom Technology.
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Brian O'Brien is a founding partner of Solearth Ecological Architecture and chair of The Living Building Institute of Ireland. As partner at Solearth, Brian has been the architect for award winning green projects like The Daintree Building, the Emerald Project in Dublin, and The Village in Tipperary among others. He represents Solearth on Climawin, a European Commission research project involving many European agencies and universities to develop an advanced Supply Air window suitable for all European climates
Roland O’Connell FSCSI is a Director of Savills and Vice President of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland. He specialises in all aspects of the office market including site selection, development advice, marketing, sales and acquisitions. Roland, together with Dr. Andrew MacLaran of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Trinity College produces the Savills Annual Dublin Modern Office Survey which is the most comprehensive and consistent research document in this sector. Their work is regularly published in the Journal of Irish Urban Studies.
Ciaran O’Connor, FRIAI, qualified from the Dublin Institute of Technology with architectural and landscape experience in Germany and Canada prior to joining the Office of Public Works where he is now assistant principle architect with responsibilities for a wide variety of new build, conservation and landscape projects and is presently completing the government’s Green Public Procurement document for Construction. Completed projects have been published in Europe, India, China and Japan. Ciaran is an occasional visiting lecturer and critic and is the co-author of five books.
Stjohn O’Connor joined the civil service in 1999 and heads up the Energy Efficiency and Affordability Division in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Stjohn has worked in a variety of roles with the Department including most recently as head of the Exploration and Mining Division. Now responsible for national policy on energy efficiency and energy poverty, Stjohn chairs the inter-departmental group on the implementation of the EPBD and represents Ireland at the IEA on the energy efficiency working party. Stjohn holds a doctorate in governance from Queens University Belfast.
Tomas O'Leary is a co-founder of the Irish Passive House Academy and a Director of MosArt Architects. Whilst he began his professional career as a Landscape Architect, he developed a keen interest in Passive House in 2002, culminating in building and living in Ireland's first Certified Passive House in 2004. Tomas co-authored the SEI new-build Passive House Guidelines (along with UCD ERG) and drafted the SEI retrofit Passive House Guidelines. He is accredited by the Passivhaus Institut to Certify Passive House projects, is a member of the (extended) European PASS-Net project founding member of the Irish Passive House Association.
Donal O'Riain is the founder and CEO of Ecocem Materials Limited. Donal established Ecocem Materials in 2000 to produce high quality, environmentally-friendly cement from a by-product of the iron industry. Ecocem Materials now operates plants in Ireland, Holland and France with a capacity to produce over 1.5million tonnes p.a., reducing CO2 emissions by well over 1million tonnes p.a. Donal has held senior roles in Ireland and Europe with the ESB, KPMG, CRH, and Steetley/Redland PLC. He is an Electrical Engineering graduate of UCD and completed an MBA in Trinity College Dublin.
Gavin Ó Sé has been testing buildings since 2006. This began when he was working as a contractor and was looking for a means to quantify the improvements he was making to the buildings he was constructing. He has been in the NSAI Airtightness testing scheme almost since its inception, and is a certified thermographer. He has also given training on Airtightness and Thermal Imaging at the Passive House Academy.
Davie Philip was a founding member of both FEASTA: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability and Sustainable Projects Ireland, the company behind the ecovillage project in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary where he now lives. In 2000 he set up the Sustainable Ireland Cooperative with Ben Whelan which trades as Cultivate. With Cultivate he organises networking and learning events including the annual Convergence Sustainable Living Festival. Davie is a catalyst for the Transition Movement both in Ireland and internationally. From 2009 to 2011 he sat on the board of SEAI (the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland).
John Pike has worked as Property Director for BT, Network Rail, HBOS and the Lloyds Banking Group, is a past chairman of the CBI Property Group, and is currently Secretary General of the International Sustainability Alliance. ISA is the global network of leading corporate occupiers, property investors, developers and owners dedicated to reducing the environmental impact of their buildings through research, measurement and benchmarking of the sustainable performance of their portfolios. He is Founder and Chairman of the 40percent Symposium, a unique annual conference on understanding and managing sustainability in the built environment.
William Scott is an architect with over 35 years experience of new-build and refurbishment projects. Since 2002 he has specialised in consultancy in the field of low energy and environmental performance of buildings. He completed an MSc Architecture at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) in 2005. William is a past chair of the RIAI Sustainability Task Force of which he has been a member since 2006. He has been a frequent provider of training to architects and construction professionals in the field of Building Energy Rating for assessors and Low Carbon Housing Refurbishment.
Fintan Smyth, Building Physics Manager, Gyproc and Isover Ireland, graduated as an Architectural Technician in 1993 and has since then pursued excellence in construction technology across a broad range of sectors including education, conservation and mixed use/residential. Over the last 5 years he has specialised in sustainable building design, lectured in PHPP, BERs and Environmental Design in the Green Works Programme and continued his research in building science, architecture, permaculture, environmental and energy studies and passive house design.
Mark Spetter has been with the Dutch Green Building Council since 2009. He started as a project manager, and is currently QA manager responsible for the BREEAM-NL certification processes, procedures and results. As project manager he worked on version 1.0 of the Dutch BREEAM-NL Area Development Scheme and now works on BREEAM-NL Infra. Mark is also a trainer on BREEAM-NL Schemes and an assessor on BREEAM-Communities and on New Construction. Prior to DGBC Mark has been active as a management consultant on CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility, and as project manager, after having worked in the offshore industry for some 10 years.
James Walsh Modcell is an architect who graduated in 1991 from UCD followed by an MSc in CAD at University of Strathclyde. Working for architectural practices in London, Sligo and Dublin, James developed skills in a range of building sectors. Sustainable design interest was developed during his time as associate and director with OMS Architects. He was recently awarded an MSc Architecture in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales. Modcell’s straw bale and hemp prefabricated panels make carbon negative building a commercial reality.
Fergus Whelan is an Industrial Officer with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions with special responsibility for pensions policy. He was the author of the ICTU response to the Green Paper on Pensions Policy. Fergus is a member of the Pensions Board and is also on the Board of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance. He holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Relations from Keele University.