Scotland Excel

Sarah Lewis, associate director: architecture at Hamson Barron Smith (HBS), describes the company’s use of Passivhaus as its benchmark performance standard. Multi-award winning Passivhaus development Carrowbreck Meadow. Photo: Jefferson Smith

Stephen Good, chief executive of the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, continues a series of blogs following the Scotland Excel ‘Accelerating the delivery of affordable new homes’ conference yesterday.

Delegates from local authorities, housing associations and construction contractors will come together next week in Edinburgh to look at key topics relating to the construction of social housing across Scotland.   The Accelerating the Delivery of Affordable New Homes conference which is being h

Scotland Excel has appointed Clark Contracts to the new Scotland Excel Residential Construction Framework - a £1.5 billion housebuilding framework which was developed to help accelerate the delivery of 50,000 new affordable homes. The framework, which will run until July 2021, with the option

Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) chief executive Sally Thomas speaks ahead of today’s Scotland Excel ‘Accelerating the delivery of affordable new homes’ conference. In the current political climate, where breaking news comes by the hour, it can be difficult not to

Representatives from Scottish local authorities and housing associations are joining construction contractors at a conference tomorrow to discuss key topics relating to affordable housing following the launch of Scotland Excel’s £1.5 billion New Build Residential Construction framework l

Testing, inspection and compliance services provider SOCOTEC has been awarded two positions on Scotland Excel’s renewed asbestos framework agreement.

CMS Window Systems has completed a large-scale refurbishment project for Ferguslie Park Housing Association (FPHA).

A £1.5 billion framework has been launched for new build residential construction services in Scotland.

The Invitation to Participate (ITP) for Scotland Excel’s four-year New Build Residential Construction Framework will close on January 14. The Centre of Procurement Expertise has joined forces with 11 Scottish councils to implement the framework, which will enable contracts for housing developm

Scotland Excel’s Construction Team is working on the fourth-generation renewals of several key frameworks: Building and Timber; Plumbing and Heating; and Electrical Materials. These contracts are part of the organisation’s growing construction portfolio and are crucial in helping Scotlan

Saint-Gobain businesses Jewson and Frazer have been appointed as suppliers of road maintenance materials to all councils in Scotland through a Scotland Excel framework. The Scotland Excel Framework is a group which extracts maximum value for the 32 councils across Scotland by harnessing their buying

Julie Welsh Scotland Excel director Julie Welsh on how its construction procurement frameworks have changed over 10 years to help deliver greater efficiencies and increased economic and social impact.

A new national contract to help Scotland’s councils source power tools has gone live with eight companies announced as suppliers. Scotland Excel’s supply and delivery of power tools framework went live recently, with six Scottish companies among the supplier list, and another supplier set to ser

The tender closing date for Scotland Excel’s national asbestos framework tender is June 11. The current framework has been in place since 2014 and is widely used by most Scottish councils.