Nov 27, 2018 | Advice for Clients, Ask the Expert!
This topic follows on from the recent general advice on things to budget for when planning a house build. The amount set aside in a contract or tender for a specific product is called a Prime Cost Sum, or p.c. sum. Contractually this means that it is a sum put in the...
Nov 12, 2018 | Advice for Clients, ArchiTalksIE
A ‘code of conduct’ for clients and contractors What is a code of conduct? There is an explicit Code of Conduct for Architects, which governs our behaviour, and if we do not adhere to it, we can lose our Registration and be prevented from practicing as...
Oct 25, 2018 | Advice for Clients, News for architects, Practice news
PLEASE COME TO THE 2018 CAA EXHIBITION GALA OPENING ON FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2018 7 P.M.! We are delighted that our project, St Joseph’s Woolen Mills in Castlemartyr has been selected by the CAA jury for this exhibition and would like to invite all our friends,...
Oct 11, 2018 | Ask the Expert!, Property Development, Sustainable/Passive
Nenzing Nursing Home / Dietger Wissounig Architects. photo copyright Albrecht Imanuel Schnabel Ireland is edging closer and closer to making our buildings more energy efficient with new Building Regulations becoming incrementally better as time goes on. Time will tell...
Oct 5, 2018 | Advice for Clients, Ask the Expert!, Property Development
How to plan for developing your site in Cork for small infill developments. There is huge site development planning potential locked up in under-developed sites in all over Cork city. With the huge pressure to get houses built, there is a great opportunity for those...
Oct 5, 2018 | Advice for Clients, Ask the Expert!
These are 13 things to budget for when planning your house build. The single most important thing to do if you want your house build to go as smoothly as possible, is get a realistic budget in place before you start designing. A budget is not what you want to spend,...
Oct 1, 2018 | Advice for Clients, ArchiTalksIE
How does an architect communicate design concepts to clients who are not in a position to physically meet in our office, but want to understand the design we are developing for them? This is my first contribution to a shared discussion among architects practicing in...
Sep 28, 2018 | Practice news
This is our drawing of the plan of our extrapolation of the markings as discovered by Anthony Murphy and Ken Williams at Bru na Boinne, ME026-033 Henge at Newgrange. From it we have made a speculative model of the new henge, and used SketchFab to allow you to explore...
Sep 9, 2018 | Advice for Clients, Practice news
Cork Architects selected for 2018 CAA Annual Exhibition The Jury of the Cork Architectural Association met on Friday 7th September and reviewed the submissions from Cork Architectural practices entered for the upcoming Cork Architectural Association 2018 Exhibition....
Sep 4, 2018 | Advice for Clients, Practice news
Passive House Architecture Talk in Clonmel The PassivHaus architecture Company is delighted to be asked by Tipperary County Museum to talk to the people of Tipperary on Passive House Architecture. We will be focusing on the RIAI Award winning Quirke’s Pharmacy...
Aug 27, 2018 | Practice news
Enerphit Passive House Certification Issued Our Cork City Passivhaus refurbishment has been issued a PassivHaus Certificate from the Institut in Darmstadt. This is our third certified passivhaus project and our first refurbishment to meet the Enerphit standard. The...
Jul 25, 2018 | News for architects, Practice news
Airtightness Test Successful! We have just (January 2019) successfully achieved the PassivHaus standard of 0.6 Air Changes per hour (N50) airtightness result on our first test. We have two more scheduled for after first-fix and on completion. We can now proceed with...
Jul 2, 2018 | Advice for Clients, News for architects
Passive house cost analysis. Summer of 2018 sees us starting on site with our latest PassivHaus home, a new-build single family dwelling on the family farm in Ballygarvan, Co. Cork. Contract negotiations lead us to look closely at the cost difference between the...
Feb 20, 2018 | Practice news
Free airtightness course is offered by Ecological Building Systems in conjunction with Cork Builders Providers in Cork on Friday the 2nd of March. Airtightness is critical in passivhaus buildings. We frequently specify this brand of tapes, but knowing which tape is...
Feb 1, 2018 | Advice for Clients
Rural Passive House design for 2018 New Passive House design for 2018! This is our latest passive house project about to be submitted for planning approval in early 2018. On the edge of a town in County Cork, nestled in a beautiful valley with stunning views. The...
Nov 24, 2017 | News for architects, Practice news
Deputy Micheal Martin (FF) was the guest of honour to launch the Cork Architectural Association exhibition 2017 on 3rd November in Cork City Hall Atrium. The sponsors for the event was Cork Builders Providers. Dan Twomey, Director of CBP spoke on the evening, giving a...
Nov 2, 2017 | Practice news
CAA invitation 2017. On behalf of the Cork Architectural Association, we would like to invite you to the opening of the architecture exhibition, “L’Architecture Quotidienne”, to be officially opened by Micheál Martin TD on Friday 3rd November at 6pm. The...
Oct 24, 2017 | Practice news
L’Architecture Quotidienne CAA annual exhibition 2017. We are delighted to announce our ‘Solar Scythe’ project selection for exhibition in the CAA annual exhibition, now on in Cork City Hall. We welcome all our friends to the opening event; The Cork...
Sep 15, 2017 | Practice news, Property Development
Passive House in CrossHaven planning decision granted Crosshaven planning permission granted. We are delighted to announce the decision to Grant Planning Permission from Cork County Council for our passivhaus design in Crosshaven. The building on a corner urban site...
Jun 6, 2017 | Practice news
Passive House in Cork granted planning permission Cork Passive planning permission. Our Ballygarvan Passivhaus project has had a positive planning decision. This passive house design, is an extremely compact form which makes passive house compliance much easier and...
