Book Your Place At The 2nd Better Building Conference

Better Building, Ireland’s largest construction and property conference, is to be held on Wednesday 24 April 2013 in Croke Park, sponsored by Ecocem, the low carbon cement provider.

This is the most important building event in Ireland and the best opportunity of the year to be updated on the very latest green building developments and innovations. This year’s conference has over 40 speakers presenting in four parallel streams, covering topics such as green real estate, passive house standard, innovations and green materials.

The conference will also feature plenty of opportunities to network with lunch, all coffee breaks and a post conference drinks reception included in the price of your ticket.

Better Building brings together the entire property and construction industry, including architects, engineers, contractors, estate agents and investors to look at the opportunities and challenges for greening the built environment. The theme of the conference, now in its second year, is Leading Environmental Innovation in Europe. Just a few of the seminars at Better Building include:
Retrofit Roadmaps to 2050
Europe has to deliver 80% cuts in Carbon emissions by 2050. How much of this can this be delivered through retrofits? Presentations will be made of examples of best practice from around Europe.
Passive House
Ireland is leading the way in the global market in Passive House expertise, with a high standard of both passive house designers and products available here. The
Green Building Market
Property Economists discuss the connection between energy efficiency and sustainability with the value premium and how this can drive better building and retrofits. This includes recent evidence from Ireland of the effect of BER rating on the value of property.
Retrofit
The RIAI will chair this session and give information on practical examples of deep retrofit, particularly looking at the hard cases. Speakers will deliver case studies of conservation/listed buildings and non-domestic buildings.

Speakers will include:
• James Drinkwater – a Senior Policy Advisor at the World Green Building Council
• Paul King – a CEO of the UKGreen Building Council
• Philip Lowe – Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy
• Ronan Lyons – an economist, based at Balliol College Oxford and the author of the quarterly Daft.ie Report
• Thomas Mueller – a Founding Director of the Canada Green Building Council

There is also an opportunity to win a pair of free tickets to the Better Building Conference. Simply complete the short Construction Industry Outlook survey at www.betterbuilding.ie for your chance to win.

There are a limited number of exhibition and sponsorship opportunities. Contact Victor Dunne on +353 1 288 8821 or victor@exhibitionsireland.com For more information on Better Building 2013 including details on the early bird rate (full price ticket is €180) and the group discounts which are also available – visit www.betterbuilding.ie