2023 Housebuilding Summit
March 22nd, Croke Park, Dublin
7:30
Registration, Networking Arrival Break and Exhibition Viewing
8:40
Welcome and opening remarks from the Chair
Ivan Yates
Entrepreneur & Broadcaster
Building the foundations for the future of housing
8:50
MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:
Darragh O’Brien, T.D
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage
9:05
Welcome from the IHBA
Sean O’Neill
Managing Director, Park Developments and Chair, IHBA
9:20
Modular housing could rapidly provide thousands of new homes. So, why isn’t it being used everywhere?
Built off-site, enabling quick and fuss-free construction, today we show you how rapidly a modular house can be built. Courtesy of Cygnum Offsite, we introduce our home build in one day…
9:25
The housing market: Threats, uncertainties and market opportunities
Marian Finnegan
Managing Director-Residential & Advisory, Sherry FitzGerald
9:40
In conversation with Stephen Garvey, CEO, Glenveagh
Stephen Garvey
Chief Executive Officer, Glenveagh
10:00
PANEL DISCUSSION:
The Planning & Development Bill: Implications for delivery
How will the planning changes lead to faster delivery and better homes and communities? We get reaction from a range of stakeholders:
Paul Hogan
Acting Assistant Secretary, Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage
Michael Kelleher
Group Operations Director of O’ Flynn Group
Phoebe Duvall
Planning and Environmental Policy Officer, An Taisce
John Downey
Director, Downey Planning
10:35
Back to our homebuild site to check in on progress…
10:40
Morning break
Density, land management & zoning
11:10
A new housing model that keeps prices down and offers more choice
How low-rise, medium density is a more viable way to achieve compact urban growth than traditional models of low-density suburban estates and high density appartments
Tony Reddy
Chairman, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism, Director and former Chair, Academy of Urbanism
11:25
PANEL DISCUSSION:
How to balance a rapid response to the housing shortage with the desire to ensure the built environment is the one we want
Patsy Supple
Director, Mavro Property Ltd
Tony Reddy
Chairman, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism, Director and former Chair, Academy of Urbanism, Director
James O’Halloran
Head of New Business, Clúid Housing
Bob Jordan
CEO, The Housing Agency
12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION:
How can we improve the effective delivery of the infrastructure needed for new housing?
- The benefits of a holistic approach to utilities infrastructure to support housing delivery
- The importance of considering utilities as stakeholders in housing delivery
- Mechanisms to improve co-ordination of the parties involved
Yvonne Harris
Head of Customer Operations and Connection Developer Services, Uisce Éireann
Niall Morrissey
Chief Executive Officer HISCo (Housing Infrastructure Services Co.)
Cian O’Mahony
Head of Operations, SIRO
12:40
Checking in again on our home building project: Where are we at?
12:45
Lunch Break
2:00
Welcome back from The Chair
Ivan Yates
Entrepreneur & Broadcaster
Cost inflation and viability
2:05
An analysis of cost inflation in building materials
Ronan McGrath
McGrath Construction Consultants
2:25
Checking in again on our home building project: Progress to date
2:30
INDUSTRY LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION:
How can we make housing construction viable?
Costs associated with the pursuit of net zero are putting more pressure on contractors’ already tight margins. Our panel of industry leaders discuss:
- how to make projects stack up for the companies building them without compromising on sustainability targets.
- The benefits of early engagement with the supply chain
- How the use of innovative construction techniques could keep costs down and ensure the delivery of good high quality, low-carbon developments
- How to access finance – the types of finance available for new home construction, the cost of finance, what state finance is available in a higher interest environment.
Dara Deering
CEO, Home Building Finance Ireland
Gavin Whelan
Director of Construction & Operations, Cairn Homes Plc.
John Hannigan
CEO, Circle Voluntary Housing Association
Sean O’Neill
Managing Director, Park Developments and Chair, IHBA
Making Ireland modular
3:10
Our final home build video instalment and Ivan discusses the project with Director of Technical Sales, Cygnum Building Offsite, Heber McMahon
Heber McMahon
Director of Technical Sales, Cygnum Building Offsite
3:30
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Offsite made simple
- Unlocking MMC for SMEs: Is your business ready for MMC?
- What are the drivers that enable the change to offsite delivery?
- The culture and behavioural shift
- The steps and processes needed to deliver success on your projects
Vince Harney
Commercial Finance Director, Quantum Group, Vice Chair of the Sustainability Working Group, SCSI
PJ Rudden
Managing Director, Aengus Consulting Ltd and Chair, Innovation and Digital Adoption, Construction Sector Group (CSG), Department of Public Expenditure & Reform
Deborah Smyth
Managing Director, Tempo Housing UK & Ireland
Sean Downey
Director, Specialist Contracting, CIF