PROJECT. COLLABORATION. INNOVATION.
SEED FUND 2023
DECAR-CON: Decarbonisation of Construction Process for Buildings in Ireland
As part of the Building a Zero Carbon Roadmap, a number of actions were identified including (i) improve Carbon reporting from site activities and develop a strategy for zero carbon sites (ii) start to measure the carbon footprint of the construction process and to develop more accurate benchmarks for A5 module and (iii) Develop a roadmap for transition to fossil fuel free zero carbon construction sites by 2035.
This project aims to address these issues through industry engagement to identify the carbon emissions associated with the process of constructing buildings in Ireland. The collected data from companies will be used for developing a roadmap with solutions for decarbonising a building’s construction process. Furthermore, the data will also be used to inform the calculation of the embodied carbon associated with the life cycle (production, construction, use and end of life) of a building in Ireland.
Applicant’s name and RPO member:
Dr. Paul Moran, University of Galway
Pat Barry, Irish Green Building Council
Collaborators:
John Paul Construction
Stewart Construction
Collaborators
Principal Investigator
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