Sustainable communities
Here you can find learning materials for everything related to designing low carbon, healthy biodiverse, and climate resilient communities. This includes best practice planning for non car dependent communities, designing for density, reducing flood risk, integrating biodiversity into a planned or existing development. The content includes, webinars, reading materials and other resources. We will continually add materials as these come available so check back again soon if you cannot find what you want.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity and the Built Environment - An Introduction
This webinar explores the links between the construction and built environment sectors and the five main sources of biodiversity loss.
Presentation slides:
Protecting Biodiversity The role of engineers: Issue paper
MembersNon Members Biodiversity and the Built Environment - Climate resilience
The webinar explores the role of nature-based solutions in enhancing resilience and in improving people’s health and wellbeing.
Slides:
Nature–based solutions – Marcus Collier’s presentation
Francesco Pilla – Smart Green Roofs
Nature Based solutions and Sustainable
Urban Drainage in housing developments – Hans Visser’s
Biodiversity and the Built Environment - New Builds and Major Renovations
The webinar looks at the strategies that can be implemented to deliver the homes and infrastructures we need while tackling biodiversity loss.
Slides:
Michael Goan – Biodiversity in the LDA Developments
Susan Vickers – Cluid Biodiversity Strategy
Ricky Whelan – Developing a Strategy for Biodiversity
MembersNon Members Biodiversity and the Built Environment - Buildings in Use
The greenest building is often the one that already exists. This webinar explores how biodiversity can be enhanced in existing commercial and residential buildings across Ireland.
Slides:
Paul Giles – Biodiversity in the Built Environment (Existing Buildings)
Dr Úna FitzPatrick – Enhancing biodiversity in existing homes
Wildlife in Buildings: Linking our Built and Natural Heritage
MembersNon Members Biodiversity and the Built Environment-Building Materials and Construction and Demolition Waste
Although most of the focus to date has been on enhancing biodiversity on site, raw materials extraction and the production of construction materials impact biodiversity further afield. The last webinar of the series looks at “embodied biodiversity loss” and how it can be addressed through practical examples.
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Landscaping and Biodiversity Guide for New Developments (Clúid Housing - 2023) Biodiversity & Circular Economy: Built environment deep-dive (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2023) Biodiversity & the Built Environment – IGBC’s insights Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions - A Handbook for Practitioners (European Commission, June 2021) Protecting Biodiversity - The role of engineers Protecting Biodiversity. The role of engineers (Engineers Ireland, July 2021) All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025 (National Biodiversity Data Center, 2021) Wildlife in Buildings: Linking our built and natural heritage. Bird Watch Ireland. (Sullivan I. & Lusby J., 2021) Green Infrastructure - A Case Study by Daibhi Mac Domhnaill (Cairn Homes plc)
Social Value
Delivering Social Value: Measurement
The measurement of social value in the built environment is a rapidly evolving area of practice. It has become a vital part of communicating and committing to social value creation across the development lifecycle. This document is designed to demystify the practice of measuring the social value of buildings and places.
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