Residential heat pump sales have risen this year, with an eleven per cent rise in the first six months of the year against the same period in 2025.

The Irish government has announced a range of new retrofit grant measures targeted at households exposed to high energy costs – and increased grants for switching to heat pumps.

The new grants will be available from 6 October, contrary to media reports that they would apply from January.

Stop Climate Chaos publicly pressed Minister for Climate Darragh O'Brien to publish the 2026 Climate Action Plan, which remains unreleased despite the year being nearly over, with a rally at the Dáil on Wednesday 16 September.

The Central Bank of Ireland has revised down its forecast for new home completions, cutting its 2026 projection from 40,000 to 39,500, with 1,000 fewer completions also expected in each of 2027 and 2028, now put at 41,000 and 45,000 respectively.

Armacell has published figures estimating how much greenhouse gas emissions its insulation products help avoid over their lifetimes.

A new study suggests the biggest barriers to greener construction are not material scarcity but systems and policy.

The UK’s Passivhaus Trust has published its initial response to the Scottish Government's Stage 2 consultation on a proposed Scottish ‘passive house equivalent’ policy, ahead of a fuller submission due before 16 October this year.

The Government has approved revisions to the general scheme of the Heat (Networks and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024, clearing the way for a regulatory framework intended to accelerate the rollout of district and communal heating in Ireland, with price regulation promised for all heat network customers.

Window and door sealant tape specialist ISO-Chemie is investing further in supporting the house building sector with a new exhibition at a showroom dedicated to passive house principles, sustainable innovation, and smart eco-living.

The 28th International Passive House Conference brought together experts and practitioners in April to discuss the world’s leading low energy building standard. Niall Crosson, group technical director at Ecological Building Systems, summarises this year’s event, which marked the 35th anniversary of the first passive house, and the 30th anniversary of the Passive House Institute.

Ireland must treat building decarbonisation as critical national infrastructure to protect households from future energy price shocks, according to a new policy scorecard launched recently.

One of the largest non-domestic passive house retrofits yet attempted in the UK, the £100 million Firoz Lalji Global Hub for the London School of Economics (LSE), will be the subject of a dedicated technical masterclass when the UK Passivhaus Conference returns to London this November for the first time in more than a decade.

Solar PV could be rolled out as standard under the Warmer Homes scheme, alongside a suite of enhanced retrofit grants for low-income households, landlords and businesses, under proposals reportedly being prepared for cabinet.

New fastener lengths for EJOT’s DDS-Z range enable soffit insulation depths of up to 375 mm to be installed easily and efficiently, with the screws still only requiring an embedment depth into concrete of just 25 mm.

The myth that energy-efficient building is a needless luxury has been dealt a significant blow by new research published by the UK’s Passivhaus Trust.

Ireland's Building Energy Rating system has moved to a simplified eight band scale, with a new A0 rating at the top reserved for zero emission buildings (ZEBs).

Building envelope specialists and energy systems experts will meet in Manchester in September as the AECB's annual conference tackles one of the most contested questions in low-energy construction: how fabric performance and energy supply should work together.

The EU is set to publish plans to reform how electricity and gas are priced – to drive the widespread uptake of heat pumps and cut heating bills by up to 60 per cent.

Britain is failing to address housing as part of the climate emergency, according to a group of 60 local authorities, businesses and civil society groups who say government changes to planning rules could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England.

The UK's leading sustainable construction event is co-locating with two other shows in May.