
Case studies
Case studies, insights and real-world stories documenting our journey toward a smarter, more sustainable built environment.
Category
- A-Z Award Winner 12
- A-Z Postgraduate Scholarship 2
- Circular Economy 3
- Digital 5
- ED&I 2
- Energy efficiency 8
- Homegrown Timber 6
- Housing 5
- Innovation 4
- Local value add 1
- Modern Methods of Construction 6
- Offsite manufacturing 10
- Passivhaus 7
- Retrofit 13
- Robotics 2
- Skills 5
- Sustainable Materials 7
- The Circular and Sustainable Materials Accelerator 4
- Upskilling 8
Social Bite Nest House: Housing to solve homelessness
Social Bite, a charity and social business that aims to end homelessness, commissioned Ecosystems Technologies to deliver a new kind of housing for their Social Bite Village.
UK’s first commercially viable homegrown wood fibre insulation
Alongside partners we are aiming to establish the UK’s first commercially viable homegrown wood fibre insulation to validate its feasibility. This would drive the greater adoption of English-grown wood in construction, increase the amount of carbon stored within the built environment, and establish novel supply chains for forestry and manufacturing.
A-Z Green Skills Award Winner: Timber TED
Timber TED (Timber Technology Engineering & Design) is a training course designed to provide construction students and professionals with a suite of in-person and online training to upskill in timber offsite construction techniques.
Mass Timber Alliance
The Commercialisation of Mass Timber project required a group of mutually benefiting and experienced stakeholders to provide direction and guidance for the research and to enhance supply chain resilience, optimising long-term net zero investment in homegrown mass timber components.
GenZero: Designed with Nature
GenZero is a project to create new, improved design standards for school buildings with the aim of making them net zero.
COP26 Homegrown Demonstrator
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.