
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
VASO Build Limited
VASO Build Limited provide ecological services across sectors with the intent of bringing wider benefits to society. They are looking to realise these benefits through Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and a new sustainable panelling system.
AIMCH - Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes
The AIMCH project aimed to study the impact modern methods of construction (MMC) & offsite manufacture (OSM) has on housebuilding and deliver methods that are cost neutral, higher quality, faster, safer, robust and more productive than traditional masonry methods of construction.
Edinburgh Home Demonstrator
The Edinburgh Home Demonstrator – a new business model for affordable homes built to net zero standards using offsite construction.
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.
Merkinch Primary School
A lesson in low carbon construction Merkinch Primary School and Family Centre - designed and built to minimise whole life carbon.
Scotland’s largest Cross Laminated Timber building
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.
Team ESTEEM - Scotland's Solar Decathlon Middle East Finalist
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.
Offsite Solutions Scotland
Making Scotland a centre of excellence for offsite manufacturing.
MultiPly: Manufacturing of Tulipwood CLT panels
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.
Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village: Working for the common good
The community regeneration legacy of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games.
This is Integra house
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.