VIDEO: Architect Paul McNally has total belief in the passive house system

Kya deLongchamps talks to Paul McNally, a Cork architect who’s just won an RIAI Annual Award.

Despite the ambitious changes contained in Part L of the building regulations, in terms of energy efficiency, there’s simply no better quality standard of building on offer than passive house certification (PH).

Earlier this year, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown became the first local authority in Ireland to include an amendment to their county development to encourage a low energy/passive house standard.