RIAI CPD: Vacant Historic Properties – ‘Over the Shop’ by Geraldine O’Brien MRIAI (April 2026)

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Cost:
Member Rate €35 | Practice Rate €30 per person
Location:
RIAI Digital Chalk
RIAI CPD:
1.5 Structured Points
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Event Information

This is a recording of an event that took place over Zoom on 14 April 2026 and is being delivered via RIAI DigitalChalk:

Course Aim

The aim of the course is to introduce working with Conservation-led strategies for the adaptive reuse and energy retrofit of vacant spaces over shops in historic buildings.

Learning Outcomes

This course will explore the challenges architects face in balancing heritage fabric conservation, adaptive reuse, and energy retrofit within the context of current Irish policy, funding mechanisms, and regulatory requirements. And presents case studies highlighting the role of hygrothermal analysis, compatible material specification and appropriate detailing in urban heritage regeneration.

Speaker

Geraldine O’Brien MRIAI is an Architect based in rural Ireland with over 30 years’ experience across architecture, interior architecture and architectural technology in Ireland and Australia. She is the founder of Design Sense Architecture + Conservation, and her practice integrates intuitive space planning, building science, innovative detailing, passive house principles and Grade III conservation expertise to bridge modern architecture with the sustainable conservation of historic buildings. She holds a Master’s in Building Performance (Energy Efficiency in Design) from TU Dublin (first-class honours); her research focused on the categorisation of architectural typology, the energy retrofit and hygrothermal performance of early 20th-century mass-concrete cottages in County Kerry, and continues to inform her research-led practice.

This online CPD course is delivered via RIAI Digital Chalk

  • Following receipt of your payment via MyRIAI you will receive an email from the RIAI CPD Division (9:00am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday) providing your login details for RIAI Digital Chalk.
  • This online course will be accessible from your RIAI Digital Chalk account for 6 months from the date of completion.
  • The RIAI will send you a CPD certificate for 1.5 structured CPD points on completion of the online course.

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