We help the sector tap into Scottish academic expertise to solve the most pressing challenges.
By linking into the leading expertise of universities, colleges, research and other built environment experts, BE-ST provides the connections and culture to conceive and activate transformative ideas.
Businesses big and small can work together with these institutions when you work on a project with us.
We work with all of Scotland’s universities and colleges, who provide world-class expertise, and connect to them with businesses, organisations and individuals in the built environment ecosystem to bring these ideas to life.
We support R&D projects between industry and academia and help find the financial backing to make them happen.
Academia and industry can also work together to developing new ground-breaking materials. On this half a million project, BAM Ritchies is working together with University of Strathclyde and BE-ST to produce a low-carbon alternative to the use of cement in ground works, river embankments and coastal defences.
BE-ST works in different ways with different types of organisation. Explore our website to get a full picture of all our different areas of work.