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Architecture and Design Scotland brought together key industry leaders at an event at its base at Edinburgh Futures Institute to announce its Business Plan for the year ahead and two new strategic partnerships. The Scottish Government’s architecture and design agency also previewed A&

Dumfries and Galloway-based VASO Global has strengthened its mission to tackle the housing crisis with a senior appointment to its board. VASO Global designs and manufactures structural composite panels made from recycled glass for the housing and general construction markets.

The Accelerate to Zero Awards are back for their fourth year to recognise the businesses, organisations, and individuals making the most significant contributions to decarbonising the built environment and supporting the just transition to a zero carbon built environment.

The UK’s biggest festival for a low carbon built environment will be taken directly to regional Scottish communities for the first time. For the past five years, industry leaders, policymakers, innovators and practitioners have travelled to Glasgow for BE-ST Fest. In 2026, the festival evolves

BE-ST and Carbon Futures have announced a new strategic partnership designed to combine their respective strengths and deliver greater impact on their shared mission to accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment. BE-ST will enter into this initial two-year partnership via its subsidiary

A new series of webinars has been launched to equip the construction industry with essential skills for timber development.

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has delivered a three-day programme of activities during Futurebuild and UK Construction Week 2026 in London. Across the three-day event, the innovation centre contributed to ten events, including workshops, programme launches, roundtables, si

A paper exploring practical approaches for delivering quality on large and/or complex high-performance Passivhaus and low energy projects has been published this week. Delivering Quality stems from a joint collaboration between Passivhaus Trust (PHT) and Built Environment – Smarter Transformat

Apex Training has launched its comprehensive and flexible green skills programme at Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre at the BE-ST Innovation Campus in Hamilton. Powered by Fedcap’s The Verdancy Group, delivers flexible, industry-led green skills training across the UK, with courses de

A new report has set out how Scotland can strengthen the flow of new entrants into the construction and built environment workforce, helping ensure the sector has the people and skills needed to deliver against the country’s future ambitions.

Muir Construction welcomed BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation) to its Quarterly Senior Management Meeting at the company’s ongoing retrofit of the former Younger Building in Edinburgh.

BE-ST has delivered an intensive programme of specialist training to over 140 apprentices and pre-apprentices this week in Glasgow and Dumfries & Galloway to mark Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2026 and build the skills needed for Scotland’s low carbon future.

A major disruptor in the UK construction sector, based in the South of Scotland, is benefitting from a £330,000 grant to propel its pioneering recycled‑glass building technology. Vaso by Eco takes waste glass and converts it into high‑performance structural panels capable of delivering rap

The retrofit of Scotland's National Retrofit Centre has won the Public Sector Project of the Year at the 2025 Energy Saving Awards.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has awarded £430k from its flagship Industry Impact Fund to develop a comprehensive industry training programme to accelerate timber construction in the UK.