
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.
Building offsite: discovering a new way to build homes
Construction company Discovery Homes tried out our offsite manufacturing line to build 4 new homes in Dundee, their first time building offsite in a factory environment.
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.
Fire Testing and Guidance on Offsite Timber Frame
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.
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.
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.
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.