Join us for a lunchtime seminar, over a cup of tea and surrounded by a small but thought-provoking exhibition on Dublin's Greek Street flats (1934). The seminar highlights new and ongoing research around alternative housing technologies, histories and carbon.
Dr Ellen Rowley is UCD's Lecturer in Modern Irish Architecture. Author of Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition (Routledge, 2019) and other studies on twentieth-century Irish architecture, Ellen will speak about lesser-known instances of alternative technologies deployed in Dublin's housing history, from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Rodhlann Mossop is an architect and research assistant on Platform4MMC research project. He will speak about social impacts of Modern Methods of Construction in housing. The study reviews social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) applications in the built environment to evaluate how system boundaries, stakeholder groups and impact categories are selected. Preliminary findings show limited consensus across the literature, highlighting the need for a more consistent and multidisciplinary approach to defining social impacts in construction.
Rola Abu-Hilal is an architect and research assistant with APEP and as part of UCD's Spatial Dynamics Lab, she will speak about the carbon impacts of reusing existing buildings. Rola's talk assesses the embodied-carbon performance of retrofitting town-centre housing using environmental life-cycle assessment. It also models neighbourhood-scale regeneration, comparing it with equivalent greenfield development to evaluate differences in embodied-carbon outcomes.
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