Edinburgh Napier University

A Falkirk graduate has gone from a trainee at Persimmon Homes North Scotland to a quantity surveyor during his degree and has won a 'highest-performing student' accolade from his university.  Niall McFadden has graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a first-class degree in Quantity Sur

Emmanuel Daniel and Fredrick Onyemaechi, alumni of the Department of Construction Project Management, School of Engineering & the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, adapt original academic research into the Edinburgh Trams project to focus on the practical lessons that can inform

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

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.

Clark Contracts has completed the major retrofit of Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre (SNRC) for Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST).

A centre of excellence for mass timber research, innovation and manufacturing was launched this week by Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST).

Students from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have been learning first hand from the deep retrofit of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s National Retrofit Centre.

Clark Contracts has been awarded the contract to undertake the deep retrofit of the Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) building which houses Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre. Following a highly competitive and engaging tender process, evaluated on both price and qualit

Property consultancy Galbraith has created a partnership with Edinburgh Napier University to recruit the next generation of building surveyors.

An award-winning programme for nursery and primary school children is encouraging young people into construction careers from an early age. Funded by HCI Skills Gateway at Edinburgh Napier University, the West Lothian Woodworking Initiative encourages young pupils into construction through interacti

BE-ST (Built Environment – Smarter Transformation) is to undertake a deep retrofit of Scotland’s National Retrofit Centre and use the opportunity to transform the building into a living demonstrator of best practice in the retrofit of non-domestic buildings.

The New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering (NMITE) has reconfigured its Timber Technology Engineering Design (TED) courses into specialised, concise programmes tailored for professionals within the UK's built environment sector.

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

A team of students from Edinburgh Napier University have returned home after completing a world-first construction project in China – based around sustainable bamboo building material. The first bamboo-timber composite grid shell structure of its kind has been built in Guangxi, with the help o

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