from left to right: Chief Architect Derry Solon, Matt Stevens, Architect, Roger Warburton, Conor O'Brien, Dean Scurry, Minister John Gormley, Daphne Sproule, Antoinette Farrelly, Alex Sproule, & Ciaran Murray.
Minister John Gormley T.D, Minister for the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, announced details of the next generation of low carbon homes in Ireland whilst turning the sod on the Emerald Project in Ballymun during the summer.
The Emerald eco Project is partly funded by Ballymun Regeneration Ltd and comprises of 37 houses and apartments and will be one of the most energy efficient housing developments ever built in Ireland. Some of the main features of the Emerald project will be, negative Co2 usage rating, solar panels and green roofs. This is the first time that most of these innovations will have been used in a project of this size, and certainly the first time that most of these will have
been used in social and co-operative housing.
Emerald will have a co-operative vision amongst its residents and partners (Cluid). The ultimate challenge of living in a groundbreaking eco building such as this is only a part of the way towards a healthier lifestyle. How the residents live and interact within this building as neighbours is the overall challenge.
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