The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has welcomed the new investment in housing, retrofit and infrastructure announced in Budget 2027, while also saying that more needs to be done to make Ireland more energy-market resilient.

Building renovation will be centre stage in Ireland’s EU presidency on 5 November – with a key retrofit event in an RIAI Sustainability Award-winning retrofit in Dublin.

Renovate Europe Day 2026 will bring both commission and ministerial voices to the Department of Climate.

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.