LEED Specialists
YOU’RE BUILDING A LEGACY.
Our clients want to build spaces with a minimal environmental footprint that are healthy throughout their life cycles. We know that green building is an iterative process of continual improvement through design, planning, construction and operations practices. We drive this process.
The external benchmarks of a construction company’s sustainability activities which we are members of are:
- US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Environmental Energy and Design
- Building Research Establishment’s BREEAM certification
Our commitment to sustainability:
- mac paid for 19 staff to get LEED qualified
- 15% of Ireland’s LEED professionals are mac employees
- 4 out of 8 LEED platinum projects in Ireland are mac projects
- Recertified in ISO 14001:2015 Environmental for 2017
- Katsiaryna Mazur is our sustainability manager and was the first WELL AP in Ireland
Selected Articles & Projects
Building Information Management
BIM provides a Project Information Model enabling a virtual design and construction methodology. mac uses Revit and BIM to advance the design model to handover status through the following integrated delivery processes:
- Advanced Design Development – Interactive visualization of the finished building before commencement on site
- Coordination and Clash Avoidance – Collaboration methods which address any errors long before they have any bearing on costs or schedule
- Documentation – EIR response, BIM execution plans and further documentation required by PAS1192 2
- Common Data Environment – In compliance with BS1192:2007
- Level of detail definition – Developed to the required level of detail /definition
- As-Built Status – Point cloud and survey verification
- Level of Information – Integration of COBie parameters and outputs
- Facilities Management – Cost reductions through BIM based O+M
- Future Proofing of Facilities – Maintainable assets of the future will send live performance data back to the Asset Information Model
- Lessons Learned – Contribute to a leaner integrated project delivery cycle for future projects, using the latest cloud collaboration technologies
