Embracing biotechnology could ‘revolutionise’ the construction industry through the creation of low cost, sustainable building products, according to a series of reports on the future of the sector.

Team ESTEEM were a student team participating in the Solar Decathlon Middle East, the world’s largest design and construction competition. They built an innovative house of the future powered exclusively with solar energy.

The largest development in the University of Glasgow’s history involves local knowledge, local skills and local value, drawing from local knowledge and skills to deliver local value.

Making Scotland a centre of excellence for offsite manufacturing.

Combining sustainable American tulipwood with innovative methods of modular construction, MultiPly confronted two of the current age’s biggest challenges – the pressing need for housing and the urgency to fight climate change.

2015 saw Aberdeen City Council’s planning committee approving plans for a new, multi million pound venue to replace the city’s exhibition and conference centre.

Transport Scotland actively implements community benefits into contracts and opens up procurements to the advantage of SMEs and supported businesses.

Creating a holistically healthy community.

The community regeneration legacy of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games.

In 2016 housebuilder Dandara was awarded a BE-ST grant to fund research into whether volume housebuilders could design and build to Passivhaus standard using a Scottish supply chain.

In August 2017 the Scottish Government’s Schools for the Future Programme announced the latest wave of investment, part of which would go towards improving school and community provision in Jedburgh.

In this new groundbreaking housing project, we prototyped a new kind of home that aimed to provide people with a healthy, affordable and sustainable place to live.

Forster Group’s Skills Academy programme addresses skills shortages in Scotland’s roofing industry.

Architect, Fulbright Alumni and PhD student Roisin Hyde is developing a way of using waste materials from mining, quarrying, metallurgy, water purification, incineration and agriculture to create a sustainable concrete substitute.

Sir Robert McAlpine, in conjunction with COGC, Equate Scotland and BE-ST, proposed that we rethink our culture towards recruitment and workplace cultures whilst encouraging employers to be at the centre of this change.

Adding local value and enhancing local impact of new housing in Glasgow’s Newton Mearns.