Moray Council approves option for solar panels on key buildings
MORAY Council has approved plans to explore investment in solar photovoltaic (PV) to generate electricity from its buildings and cut carbon emissions.
Beginning with Elgin...
Work complete on Scotland’s first Passivhaus social housing development
CRUDEN Building Scotland has completed a Passivhaus development in the village of Drymen in Stirlingshire.
It is the first social housing development in Scotland to...
Dura Products highlights green credentials with LCA results
DURA Products has confirmed its sustainability credentials with the release of new Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for its Durakerb, Duradrain and Durachannel products.
The LCA,...
Cundall adds to Scottish team as demand for sustainability services ‘skyrockets’
MULTI-disciplinary engineering consultancy Cundall has claimed that demand for sustainability services in Scotland has 'skyrocketed'.
Demand for services including ESG strategy, net zero carbon design,...
Electric Heating Company marks 20th anniversary with six-figure investment
THE Electric Heating Company (EHC) is targeting sustained growth after a significant tech investment.
The Glasgow-based firm has revealed it has invested six-figures into a...
Stirlingshire plot of land sought for transportable ‘eco home’
A transportable ‘eco house’ and its owner are looking for a new plot of land in Stirlingshire to call home.
The unusual instruction has been...
Robertson and SEPA launch free environmental training toolkit
ROBERTSON and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) have launched a toolkit to help Scotland's construction sector meet its legal environmental obligations and build...
Sustainable drainage strategy brings environmental gains at Dalkeith housing project
A sustainable drainage strategy, designed to reduce 315 cubic metres of excavation and save around 20 days of construction time, has been utilised at...
Barratt Redrow adopts pallet collection service across all sites
THE Pallet LOOP has revealed that Barratt Redrow is rolling out LOOP's pallet collection service across all of its housebuilding sites.
The move comes as...
Six ways to reduce embodied carbon in construction
Ewan Duffin, Harley Haddow associate director
Embodied carbon is something we should all be talking about in the race to net zero and push to...
Build of Scotland’s largest commercial shore power system underway
THE build of Scotland's largest commercial shore power system is underway at Port of Aberdeen as part of a £4 million project designed to...
Springfield launches 2025 apprenticeship recruitment drive
SPRINGFIELD Properties has marked Scottish apprenticeship week with the launch of its 2025 apprenticeship recruitment drive across Moray and the Highlands.
The launch coincided with...
First pipes installed to supply Shawfair with low carbon heating
THE first pipes to supply the new Shawfair Town in Midlothian with low carbon heating have been installed, with construction on the site now...
University to explore regeneration of waterfront on COP26’s doorstep
GOVAN'S historic Graving Docks is to be the focus of a new study examining low-carbon urban regeneration.
Situated directly opposite Glasgow's SSE Hydro - the...
Green light for Passivhaus Dundee community campus plans
PLANS by Holmes Miller for an integrated educational and community campus for the east end of Dundee have been approved.
The East End Community Campus,...
Major plans unveiled to transform Chapelcross into net zero-focused site
THE masterplan to develop Chapelcross into a green energy hub has been unveiled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
The multi-million pound, net zero-focused proposals...
Scottish Water trials RSE’s award-winning Timber Modular Build kiosks
SCOTTISH Water has partnered with Ross-Shire Engineering (RSE) to trial an award-winning low carbon approach to housing equipment on site.
The pilot has seen traditional...
Insulation specification for higher-risk buildings
Changing regulations mean that architects and specifiers designing high-rise and higher-risk buildings in Scotland need to meet much stricter and, in some cases, conflicting,...
A call for clarity over UK retrofit delivery models
By Sara Edmonds, co-director of the National Retrofit Hub
AS Scotland’s building industry reckons with the formidable challenge of scaling up retrofit initiatives and decarbonising...
What is the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard delivering?
The theme for Scotland's Climate Week 2024 is ‘Stories for Change’. In this article, Jamie Goth, associate director at the Scottish Futures Trust, looks...
