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First Minister Humza Yousaf visited Built Environment - Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s Innovation Campus yesterday to announce the Scottish Funding Council (SFC)’s future approach to investing in Scotland’s innovation centres and to officially open BE-ST's National Retrofit Centr

Scotland’s first eco construction training centre is teaching students key skills to deliver net zero targets. Constructed by McTaggart Construction, the newly opened state-of-the-art facility at West Lothian College supports sustainable construction and energy efficiencies. It will provide tr

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has appointed former Homes for Scotland chief executive Nicola Barclay as outgoing board chair Andy Outram comes to the end of a successful three-year term. Guided by over 30 years' experience in construction and housing development

A wall built from bricks made by Scottish company Kenoteq using recycled construction waste has formed the centrepiece of one of the major showcase spaces at the 28th meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). Global investment company Dubai Holding’s presence in the Gree

Caitriona Jordan, head of retrofit at Built Environment Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Sara Edmonds, head of citizen engagement at BE-ST, and co-director of the National Retrofit Hub (NRH), and Rachael Owens, co-director of NRH, share their insights from the International Retrofit Conference. As th

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s first ever Accelerate to Zero Awards took centre stage in central Glasgow this week.

Changeworks has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) with the aim of accelerating and improving retrofit in Scotland.

New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has signed a formal agreement with Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) to catalyse a nationwide network of advanced engineering, manufacturing, and learning hubs.

Scotland’s national innovation centre for construction and the built environment, BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation) has welcomed 13 leading figures from across the sector onto its board to steer the delivery of its mission to accelerate the built environment’s tran

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), in collaboration with Coaction Training CIC (formerly known as Carbonlite), has announced a new training initiative aimed at revolutionising the construction industry's approach to sustainable building.

Two national organisations have joined forces to build skills that meet construction’s critical role in Scotland’s drive to net zero. Scotland’s skills agency, Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the national innovation centre for the built environment, Built Environment –

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has appointed Danielle Miller and Kirsty Duncan as co-heads of a newly-formed stakeholder engagement team. The team will bring marketing, communications, events and skills infrastructure together to create a function that will foster

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), Scottish Forestry and Zero Waste Scotland have published a first-of-its-kind report exploring timber cascading in Scotland.

Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) has launched an e-learning module on sustainable construction that can be accessed online for free at any time.

Transforming Timber - a knowledge library designed to promote the use of homegrown timber in the UK built environment - launched earlier this month.