Leaving Certificate Construction Technology · November 2026
Five useful things
Five things worth your time this half-term, picked by your textbook’s author. Everything is on this page – you do not need an app.
1
Something to read
A passive house on a challenging site in Cork Harbour
Passive House Plus (Irish magazine) · 15 min read
A real house built in Ireland, with photographs of every stage. Look for the parts you have drawn in class.
Read it ↗U3 Two walls, one planet
2
Something to watch
Where does the load of a building actually go?
Civil Insights · 34 sec
One idea in under a minute: how a structure carries its load down to the ground.
U1 The self-build on the family site
3
A building to look at
Maura’s Cottage, Lough Gur, Co. Limerick – a thatched house built about 1850
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Co. Limerick · buildingsofireland.ie
Find a building like this near your home. Sketch it and note what it is built from – it could be the building for your project.
See the building ↗Your project
4
Something to try
Measure your bedroom and draw it at 1:50
A tape measure, a pencil and 20 minutes
Measure each wall, the door and the window. Draw the plan at 1:50 and show which way the door opens. Then check: does the bed fit where you drew it?
U1 The self-build on the family site
5
Something for your project or exam
How to tape an airtight seal round a window
Ecological Building Systems · video · 4 min
The blue line in your drawings is the airtight layer. Watch how it is made on a real house – then you can explain it when an exam question asks.
U3 Two walls, one planetWritten exam
The library
Every past pick, kept here. Choose the unit you are studying, your project or your skills test.
U1The self-build on the family site2 picks
WatchWhere does the load of a building actually go?Civil InsightsNovember 2026
U3Two walls, one planet2 picks
ReadA passive house on a challenging site in Cork HarbourPassive House Plus (Irish magazine)November 2026Read it ↗
WatchHow to tape an airtight seal round a windowEcological Building SystemsNovember 2026
PYour project1 pick
Look atMaura’s Cottage, Lough Gur, Co. Limerick – a thatched house built about 1850National Inventory of Architectural HeritageNovember 2026See it ↗
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