Stephen Good

Chief Executive

A smiling man wearing glasses and a dark blazer standing inside a large warehouse with metal shelves and yellow beams.

Stephen Good is CEO of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) – Scotland’s national innovation centre for construction and the built environment. Stephen has been CEO since its inception in 2014 and during this time has led the growth of the organisation from a business plan idea to a national innovation asset and the innovation cluster lead organisation for the Built Environment. BE-ST was recognised by the United Nations as an international Centre of Excellence in 2021. It operates Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre from the Innovation Campus near Glasgow, and is focused on a clear mission to accelerate the built environment’s just transition to net zero carbon emissions.

An Architect to training, Stephen spent the first 10 years of his career with Anderson, Bell & Christie Architects designing and delivering award winning housing, education & healthcare projects across Scotland. In 2007 he joined CCG (Scotland) Ltd, one of Scotland’s leading private construction companies to support the technical delivery of their £12million offsite manufacturing facility, unique in Scotland and one of the most advanced in the UK, notably delivering the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes Village. Taking on a Group Director role with CCG in 2010, he set up the Building Futures Lab, CCG’s specialist sustainability, research, and innovation consultancy, before becoming CEO at BE-ST in 2014.

  • Appointed by Scottish Ministers to the Just Transition Commission at the beginning of 2023, with a remit to advise and scrutinise Scottish Government’s Just Transition Plans for key sectors of the economy.

  • Co-Chair of the Scottish Government Building Standards Passivhaus Equivalent Steering Group.

  • Member of Scottish Government’s Strategic Industry Clusters Group.

  • Member of Scottish Government’s Innovation Stakeholder Advisory Forum.

  • Member of the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum.

  • Co-Chair of the Scottish Construction Leadership Forum’s Net Zero Working Group.

  • Member of Hub North’s Strategic Territory Partnering Board.

  • Member of Highlands & Islands Regional Economic Partnerships Housing Sub-Group.

  • Member of the University of Glasgow’s Estate & Sustainability Committee.

  • An Ambassador for Circular Glasgow

sgood@be-st.build