2023 Agenda Archives - House Building Summit

2023 Agenda

March 22nd, Croke Park, Dublin

Making Ireland modular

3:10am

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

7:30am

Registration, Networking Arrival Break and Exhibition Viewing

8:40am

Welcome and opening remarks from the Chair

Ivan Yates

Entrepreneur & Broadcaster

Building the foundations for the future of housing

8:50am

MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:

Darragh O’Brien TD

Minister for Housing, Local Government & Heritage

9:05am

Welcome from the IHBA

Sean O’Neill

Managing Director, Park Developments and Chair, IHBA

9:20am

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…

9:25am

The housing market: Threats, uncertainties and market opportunities

Marian Finnegan

Managing Director, Sherry FitzGerald Residential & Advisory

9:40am

In conversation with Stephen Garvey, CEO, Glenveagh

Stephen will discuss the key issues around planning policy and the planning system that are hindering the viability and delivery of affordable, high quality and sustainable housing in Ireland.

Stephen Garvey

Chief Executive Officer, Glenveagh

10:00am

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:

John Downey

BA, MRUP, MBA,Dip.Law (kings Inns) MRTPI MIPI., Director, Downey Planning

Michael Kelleher

Group Operations Director of O’ Flynn Group

Paul Hogan

Acting Assistant Secretary – Head of the Planning Division, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH)

Phoebe Duvall

Planning and Environmental Policy Officer, An Taisce

10:35am

Back to our homebuild site to check in on progress…

10:40am

Morning break

Density, land management & zoning

11:10am

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, Director, Property Industry Ireland

11:25am

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

Bob Jordan

Chief Executive, The Housing Agency

James O’Halloran

Head of New Business, Clúid Housing

Patsy Supple

Director, Mavro Property Ltd

Tony Reddy

Chairman, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism, Director and former Chair, Academy of Urbanism, Director, Property Industry Ireland

12:00pm

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

Cian O’Mahony

Head of Operations, SIRO

Niall Morrissey

Chief Executive Officer, Housing Infrastructure Services Company (HISCo)

Yvonne Harris

Head of Customer Operations and Connection Developer Services, Uisce Éireann

12:40pm

Checking in again on our home building project: Where are we at?

12:45pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm

Welcome back from The Chair

Ivan Yates

Entrepreneur & Broadcaster

Cost inflation and viability

2:05pm

An analysis of cost inflation in building materials

Ronan McGrath

Managing Director, McGrath Quantity Surveyors

2:25pm

Checking in again on our home building project: Progress to date

2:30pm

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.