Dozens of institutional buildings constructed in the 1970s may be given a new lease of life thanks to a retrofit cladding system developed by Cork Institute of T echnology, Kingspan and AMS. CIAN MOLLOY reports. Under the 2010 European Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), all public buildings must be near-zero energy buildings (nZEB) by 2018, a tough task given that many of Ireland’s public buildings predate the building regulatio

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