Now more than ever we are seeing increasing housing pressure on residents in the UK. Prices are increasing, buyers are being locked out of securing permanent homes, and demand outweighs supply. The construction industry must build more homes to meet this need and ease the UK housing crisis.

Glasgow’s SECC transformed into a hospital in just three weeks.

Building facades are influenced by wind effects and temperature fluctuations. They deteriorate over the years, leading to progressive loss of performance that can decrease the energy efficiency of the building and occupants’ comfort, and failures that can involve deaths and injuries.

The Eildon Group has, according to Development Project Manager Kevin Scott, been ‘on the brink’ of a sustainability commitment for some time, incorporating elements like air source heat pumps and PV panels in its new builds.

The GALE centre in Gairloch didn’t start out as a Passivhaus design – but it ended up as one.

With the last large-scale, industry-wide testing carried out over 20 years ago, a new fire-in-use research project was vital for the sector experiencing a watershed in fire safety.

From its base in the far north of Scotland, Norscot have championed innovation since the beginning - their projects with us have let them develop new networks, expertise and new products.

BAM Ritchies, BE-ST and the University of Strathclyde are working together to produce a low-carbon alternative to the use of cement in ground works, river embankments and coastal defences.

The NearHome project is helping retrofit public spaces into sustainable office alternatives, reflecting the changing working patterns of a post-Covid Scotland.

The EXSKALLERATE project, funded by InterrReg North Sea Region, aimed to increase the adoption of exoskeletons by the manufacturing and building industry. This would reduce occupational health issues and enhance SME competitiveness.

IndiNature, supplied by several UK farms, manufactures insulation products using as little as 10% of the energy needed to create conventional insulations, which helps allow the net capture of carbon the final product.

The Edinburgh Home Demonstrator – a new business model for affordable homes built to net zero standards using offsite construction.

In 2012, Levenseat's Robert Green designed a treatment process that would treat APCR residues and provide a like-for-like replacement ingredient for cementitious products like power station ash.

GenZero is a project to create new, improved design standards for school buildings with the aim of making them net zero.

During the two-week COP26 conference, BE-ST’s Campus opened its doors to the public to become a hub for zero carbon conversations for the construction industry. ​ 

SNRG is manufacturing the first cross-laminated, nail-laminated, and glue-laminated timber housing unit using materials grown and harvested in Scotland. The finished structure was demonstrated at BE@COP26.

The K-briq^® is made from 90% reused materials such as brick, stone and plasterboard. There is no equivalent to this on the market.

A lesson in low carbon construction Merkinch Primary School and Family Centre - designed and built to minimise whole life carbon.

Moock Environmental sought practical testing to discover RTP’s commercial viability in precast concrete, helping to try to take it from the laboratory and into the supply chain. The feasibility trials examined how RTP affected production and performance.

The project, which CCG led and BE-ST supported, used the renewable resource to build a modern, sustainable residential building on Ellerslie Road. The structure rises to 7 storeys, incorporating 42 flats with views over the River Clyde. The whole project came to an overall value of over £600,000.