Joseph Little MRIAI (non pract), BArch (NUI), Prof Dipl. (NUI), MSc Arch AEES (UEL).

Prior to entering academia, Little practiced architecture in the Dublin region in Joseph Little Architects (2005-2015) focusing on super low-energy extension-retrofits and timber construction. The practice won the ‘Best Residential Green Building’ awards in Ireland in 2013 and 2014: the first for Ireland’s first EnerPHit (Passivhaus Institute certified deep retrofit) project, the second for a deep retrofit extension of a 1929 red brick house.

He created the Building Life Consultancy service (2008-2020) with an awareness of the paucity of knowledge and focus on applied building physics to deliver high quality, healthy buildings and retrofits in Ireland. The Consultancy was one of the first to provide hygrothermal risk assessment, thermal bridge calculation, Passive House modelling ad building product innovation.

Between 2009 and 2014 Little created and led two very successful short training courses for architects manage through the RIAI that delivered key insights on building fabric, thermodynamics, building energy modelling, moisture management, healthy buildings, ventilation, lifecycle cost analysis, etc. A series of publications for 'Construct Ireland' and 'Passive House Plus' journals created from 2004 are still cited as landmark pieces in the national conversation around new build and retrofit standards and moisture risk. 

Hygrothermal risk assessment, building fabric analysis, low energy architecture, retrofit, low carbon construction, timber construction, biomaterials, circularity