"People are going to have to face up to the fact that either we have to put in wind farms and wave generation, and so on, or we will have no choice but to go down the nuclear route. Sustainable measures might seem optional at the moment but it won't be optional for long," says Kevin Kelly, head of learning development at DIT in Bolton Street and chairman of the CIBSE (The Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers) in Ireland, which has just held its first major conference on sustainable design. The conference was organised to raise awareness of sustainability in the design and construction of buildings and look at changes happening legislatively and in working practice. While some services engineers in Ireland, such as Buro Happold, Homan O'Brien, Davis Associates and Arup, are already experts in sustainable solutions for buildings, they can only offer the service if the client wants it and many buildings are still being designed and constructed that guzzle gas and oil.
