Making our homes future perfect

Kya deLongchamps on the confusing whirl of energy upgrades in the home.

As we stare down another New Year, I know many readers with properties untouched by the 2011 amendments to Part L of the Irish Building Regulations (the tweaks to what is now near Passivhaus energy efficiency standard in new builds), are feeling downright left out in the cold.

All the worthy chatter of external wraps, biomass augers, heat-pump tech’, geothermal fed UFH and smart zone heating, appear destined for some other gilded clique of homeowners.