Sustainable construction to present a confident picture for financial sector investment
Improving attic insulation is a typical staged project for improving the BER on your current home, and you would be well advised to exceed the recommendations. Retrofit grants with the SEAI are ceilinged at €300, around 30% of the cost to insulate the floor of a standard attic to 300mm in fibre-glass batting. Picture: iStock
2050 might still be more than a couple of decades off, but in terms of preparing the building stock in this country for major changes, this is a short timescale and we’ve quite a bit of progress to make yet.
It has been highlighted in a number of articles on the subject (including my own in an edition from last October) that the Government — far from taking a leading role in the matter — has been lagging behind the private sector.
