Dermot Bannon: Knowledge is power in retrofitting and design

Property Editor Tommy Barker talks to architect Dermot Bannon, quantity surveyor Patricia Power and the SEAI

Dermot Bannon launches the RIAI Simon Open Door campaign with Jennifer Kitson and Kathryn Meghen. Dermot is the ambassador for the RIAI Simon Open Door campaign, May 4-14; sign up at riaisimonopendoor.ie. 

We already have a climate crisis threatening us, our families, future generations, pretty much all other species and quite possibly the entire planet so it shouldn’t have taken an immediate and distressing war on Europe’s doorstep to focus our own attention on the use, cost and sources of energy in our homes.

But, human nature being what it is, we respond to short-term shocks like massive hikes in energy costs, for powering transport, greasing the wheels of the economy and keeping our homes ticking over, with light, heat and power.