Assoc ProfessorOliver Kinnane

I am a researcher and an educator focused on achieving a more sustainable built environment.

Amongst other roles at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy I am:

- Founder and director of the MSc in Architecture, Urbanism and Climate Action at UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy.

- Lead academic at the Building in a Climate Emergency Research Group. (https://www.ucd.ie/biace/)

- Lead on the Resilient Design Curriculum reform at UCD Architecture funded by the Higher Education Authority, Human Capital Initiative.

- PI on eight different international and national research projects including the EU Green Deal H2020 Probono project, three Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland projects (nZEB101, FabTrads, MacAirH) and the Whole Life Carbon in Irish Construction Sector and Built Environment with the Irish Green Building Council.

- Member of the UCD Energy Institute and leading research through the Nexsys programme and a member of the Earth Institute.

I work with industry to innovate new low carbon concretes and concrete products. I report research findings to government departments on a regular basis including, primarily to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Department of Environment, Climate and Communications. I have undertaken consultancy work for the Department of Foreign Affairs. I have been part of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action.

Media enquiries: Sustainable Building, Heat pumps, Retrofit, Conservation and Reuse