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Online Consultation Form
Do you have experience with nursing homes/residential long-term care in Ireland? Consider completing our online consultation form!
TrinityHaus (TCD) project: Planning and design for quality of life and resilience in residential long-term care settings for older people, is funded by the Health Research Board (HRB) and aims to provide research findings and recommendations related to the buildings and outdoor spaces (the built environment) associated with residential long-term care settings for older people (often referred to as nursing homes) in Ireland.
This project focuses on the design of buildings and outdoor spaces in residential long-term care settings for older people. In many cases, this aspect of long-term care does not get enough attention. Yet the built environment, including the overall site, buildings, gardens, rooms, furniture and fittings, all play a critical role in the quality of life of residents. The built environment also influences staff wellbeing and how the setting is experienced by family members and other visitors. In this regard, this project examines how the built environment can help improve quality of life, enhance infection control, and support greater overall resilience into the future.
As such, we are asking members of the public with experience of nursing homes in Ireland, either as a resident, family member of a resident, or as a visitor or staff member, as well as professional/experts in the area of residential long-term care, to share their experience and opinions on residential long-term care by way of an online consultation form.
If you are interested in participating, please follow this link to complete the online consultation form: Online Consultation Form
Findings from this research will be used to inform a new set of planning and design guidelines for new settings and the adaptation and retrofit of existing settings.
For more information on this project and our similar research, please visit the TrinityHaus website.
Project funded by the Health Research Board (HRB)
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TrinityHaus – Trinity’s Research Centre for Construction, Innovation and Sustainability
Welcome to HausBlog, TrinityHaus’ new research blog!
The built environment greatly affects sustainability, climate change, well-being, health, and inclusion. These matters are deeply embedded and connected within our buildings, neighbourhoods, towns and cities and they require integrated and people-centred research and design solutions. TrinityHaus, a Trinity College Research Centre located in the School of Engineering, was established in 2008, through a very generous benefaction by Bernard McNamara which provided seed funding for the research centre, including the institution of the Michael McNamara Chair of Construction Innovation and Sustainability, named in honour of Bernard’s father.
TrinityHaus is largely research-driven by sustainability issues in society at large, with many external stakeholders playing an active part in the research projects – in that way TrinityHaus is truly outward facing.
Coming out of the period of isolation which the COVID-19 pandemic imposed on both research students and staff, it is evident that the unique research experience that is the essence of being a researcher in TrinityHaus has been restored.
TrinityHaus could not be better placed to provide the research environment to address the enormous sustainability challenges humankind faces, as supported by our four research pillars:
Healthy and inclusive environments involve the age-attuned, people-centred built environment including soil, water, air and healthy materials. For example, the work is supporting Tallaght University Hospital’s Integrated Care for Older Persons, and is considering the impact of NO2 on health with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups and the indoor air-quality in A-rated houses (the AMBER project).
The climate action and sustainability pillar includes research on low or zero carbon energy systems (including solar and wind energy), sustainable materials and buildings and the circular economy. Examples include research on plasmonic enhancement and directionality of emission of advanced luminescent solar devices (the PEDAL project)and investigating advanced low carbon cement alternatives in precast modular concrete buildings .
Construction innovation aims toenhance the sustainability of the construction industry through innovation, principally through the multiphase use of materials in low carbon concrete, including supplementary cementitious materials concrete sandwich panels for retrofitting in the precast industryand the immersion of Building Information Modelling (BIM) into construction practice.
And the co-creation and engagement pillar brings the voice, needs and preferences of the community to the heart of the design process, with key issues, challenges and opportunities for engaging older persons in the co-creation of standards and guidelines for the built environment. It also includes, for example, the indoor air environment and energy demands in Ireland’s cathedrals and churches.
HausBlog provides a venue where TrinityHaus researchers and their numerous multi-disciplinary collaborators can come together to discuss issues relating to sustainability and the four research pillars. Join the discourse.
Professor Roger West, PhD CEng FIEI FICT FTCD
Director of TrinityHaus
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