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PRO INSTALLER MAY 2016
PRO NEWS
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Sharper focus on
building cost info
The Building Cost Information
Service (BCIS) is teaming up
with analysts Barbour ABI to
bring the latest information on
construction costs to the industry.
Barbour ABI has been
tasked to request project data on behalf of
BCIS. The results will
be used anonymously
to feed into the BCIS
online service and will
feature in the ‘BCIS
Benchmark Reports,’
which allow data suppliers to gain insight
when comparing their
project costs with similar schemes from the
BCIS database.
Adam Valentine, Group
Content Director at
Barbour ABI said: “As a
business we have a longstanding history with the
construction sector and
are very well positioned to
work with BCIS to further
develop its insightful cost
and pricing findings. We
are looking forward to
a long and prosperous
relationship with BCIS,
which in turn will have a
significant effect in helping
the sector forecast future
project costs.”
Marianne Chowdhury,
Head of Data Collection at
BCIS said: “We are looking
forward to working with
Barbour ABI on data
collection to maintain the
up-to-date, relevant and
accurate building cost data
available to BCIS subscribers.”
DUBLIN LOCAL AUTHORITY
MAKES PASSIVE
HOUSE MANDATORY
All new buildings in
south-east Dublin must
be built to the passive
house standard or demonstrably equivalent
levels - in a move that
may lead to the construction of upwards
of 20,000 passive
houses by 2022.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown
County Council has adopted its county development
plan for 2016-2022, including a motion worded by
Passive House Plus editor
Jeff Colley that all new
buildings must be built to
the passive house standard
or equivalent.
The motion, sponsored
by Fine Gael councillor
Marie Baker, passed by a
majority of 27-10, winning
support from members
of every political party,
including nine out of eleven Fine Gael councillors,
four out of seven Fianna
Fáil councillors, all Green
Party, Sinn Fein and People
Before Profit councillors,
and five out of six independents. Just one of the
council’s seven Labour
councillors voted for the
policy, leaving Labour as
the only party where a majority of councillors didn’t
back the policy.
The Passive House Association of Ireland commissioned a legal opinion
from planning, European
and competition law experts Philip Lee Solicitors,
to address concerns raised
by the Department of the
Environment about the
legal basis for the passive
house policy.
Source: www.
passivehouseplus.co.uk
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