Fabric First Retrofit Rejuvenates Dublin Social Housing

First Passive House Pharmacy
Built in the 1970s, Rochestown House was a cramped, cold and damp social housing block in Sallynoggin, Co Dublin that has now been completely transformed, thanks to a deep energy retrofit inspired by passive house principles. Can decades-old concrete flats be raised up to anything like the passive house standard? This was precisely the question
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Ireland’s First Passive House Pharmacy

First Passive House Pharmacy
Late last Summer, work finished on architect Paul McNally’s latest super low energy project: a three story building in Tipperary that has just become Ireland’s first certified passive house pharmacy. Since 1927, the Quirke family has been running a pharmacy on the main street in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. The original building on their O’Connell Street
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