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The Irish government’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) set retrofit targets for the residential sector with the EU proposing to move from nearly-zero energy buildings to zero-emission buildings by 2030. This will mean current building performance standards may be shifted to meet this requirement.

The focus of this project is to evaluate the sustainability of homes retrofitted to the Passive House Retrofit Standard from an economic and environmentalperspective to determine if they are a suitable pathway to move towards Zero Emission Buildings.

The project will evaluate embodied carbon of homes retrofitted to SEAI ‘deep’ retrofit and Passive House retrofit standard and measure energy and IEQ performance of houses retrofitted to this standard. It will also conduct an environmental and economic life cycle assessment of homes retrofitted to SEAI ‘deep’ retrofit and Passive House retrofit standard to determine the sustainability of design solutions. Finally, the project will provide practical, applicable and usable research outputs (e.g. guidance documents, tools, reports, webinars, etc.) to communicate the outcomes of the project.