Energy Saving Trust runs the Green Heat Installer Engagement Programme, which provides support for businesses in Scotland to help them to participate fully and effectively in the supply chain for clean heat, energy efficiency and microgeneration installations.

Winners of the 2024 Accelerate to Zero Diversity and Inclusion Award, Threesixty Architecture have been recognised for embedding equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across every level of their business, from internal culture to industry influence.

The Torry Heat Network in Aberdeen is a landmark project that demonstrates how retrofit heat networks can deliver both climate and social impact.

Eriskay Historical Society, a community-led group that is committed to preserving Eriskay's heritage. The group is transforming the island's old schoolhouse into a local heritage museum while putting sustainability, and people, at the heart of the development. The initiative is a shining example of the Just Transition in action.  

Chloë Yuill, a newly qualified Architect at ECD Architects, was the winner of the 2023 Change Maker Award at the Accelerate to Zero Awards for her significant commitment and contribution to solving the challenges faced in decarbonising the built environment.

Retrofit Balsall Heath is a community-led neighbourhood project in the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham, made up of local people, community groups, and partners working together to retrofit the neighbourhood – possibly one of the first of its kind working at this scale.

On the journey to net zero, community-based initiatives like Loco Home Retrofit are key. Founded by Chris Carus and Tom Nockolds, Loco Home Retrofit is a retrofit co-operative of homeowners, trades and buildings professionals working together to make homes in Glasgow more energy efficient.

Glasgow University’s digital twin was fully developed by a company called Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES),150 years after its Gilmorehill campus was first established.

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. 

Kenoteq is the company behind the world’s first 95% recycled brick, the K-Briq. This disruptive brick turns old construction waste into a new ultra-low carbon construction material, while still having the strength, durability and workability to fit in well back on construction sites.  

The firm is behind the award-winning Niddrie Road Retrofit project in Glasgow’s South Side and is using the breadth and depth of their experience to accelerate community-led placemaking, which they see as the key to unlocking successful retrofit.

The practice, John Gilbert Architects, also won BE-ST's Accelerate to Zero Award’s Retrofit Award.

Civic House has recently been retrofitted to EnerPHit Standard as well as being transformed into a small-scale power plant – generating three times as much electricity as it consumes over the course of the year.