Sustainability specialist joins BE-ST as lead impact manager for retrofit programmes
SARA Edmonds has joined Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) as lead impact manager for retrofit programmes.
She will support the organisation alongside her roles...
Lerwick Port Authority joins the ORION Clean Energy Project
THE ORION Clean Energy Project has welcomed Lerwick Port Authority as a strategic partner.
The Port Authority will be joining the strategic partnership alongside Shetland...
Come on Scotland! Keeping the Scottish Passivhaus equivalent policy on track
Sarah Lewis, research & policy director at the Passivhaus Trust, tells Project Scotland what, in her view, is good and what needs improving in...
Edinburgh College decarbonisation plans heat up
EDINBURGH College has teamed up with Vital Energi on a project to decarbonise the heating system at its Midlothian Campus in a bid to...
Barrhead Housing’s smart homes programme to be expanded
BARRHEAD Housing is to expand its innovative smart homes programme thanks to new funding awarded through Glasgow City Region's 5G Innovation Region (Smart and...
Hydrock appoints heat networks specialist to help drive sustainability offer in Scotland
HYDROCK has strengthened its multidisciplinary team in Scotland with the appointment of heat networks specialist Charlie Drysdale as an associate director.
He joins the firm's...
Sustainability features placed at the heart of new Kirkcaldy development
A range of sustainability features are being incorporated into 49 new Fife Housing Group homes currently under construction in the Glen Albyn area of...
Work completes on 300-home retrofit initiative in Dumfries
GLASGOW-based energy services company Union Technical is concluding work on a £1.5 million retrofit of almost 300 homes in Dumfries.
Residents of the town’s Sandside...
SSEN pledges to build over 300 homes in Aberdeenshire
SSEN Transmission has committed to building over 300 homes in Aberdeenshire as part of its £22 billion+ planned programme of investment in the north...
Pallet reuse scheme launches three-day collection service in Scotland
CONSTRUCTION firms, housebuilders, and builders merchants across Scotland using The Pallet LOOP will now get their pallets picked up faster, as the business introduces...
Actuate UK calls for ‘focused and consistent policy approach’ to achieve carbon targets
ACTUATE UK is calling on the UK Government to work with engineering services to help deliver net zero ambitions, as COP27 gets underway in...
Application submitted for ‘key component’ of £22 billion SSEN programme
SSEN Transmission has submitted a section 37 consent application for a 'key component' of its £22 billion pathway to 2030 investment programme.
The application relates...
Tenants begin moving into ‘net zero ready’ affordable homes in Edinburgh
THE first tenants have moved into the first ‘net zero ready’ affordable homes to be delivered in Granton Waterfront.
Built by CCG, the 75 homes...
Robertson Group awarded landmark sustainability accolade
ROBERTSON Group has become the first company founded in Scotland to be awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s (SMI) Terra Carta Seal.
The accolade recognises global...
Retrofit project gives Scone homes a new lease of life
AN £860,000 project in Scone, Perthshire, has transformed 25 homes that were previously at risk of demolition, to make them warmer and cheaper to...
TV host announced as key speaker for Green Home Festival
TV presenter and award-winning designer Anna Campbell-Jones has been confirmed as the star guest at this year’s Green Home Festival, which runs as part...
Advanced works underway on ‘next generation’ Glasgow building
DEANS Civil Engineering Scotland has commenced advanced works on behalf of CEG to prepare Glasgow's 33 Cadogan Street for development.
Works include installing sheet piling around...
Hydroelectric generator which doubles up as visitor attraction opens in Inverness
A hydroelectric generator on the banks of the River Ness is now fully operational in Inverness.
Known as the Hydro Ness, the 92 kilowatt archimedes...
Ground broken in Orkney in ‘major step forward’ for £900m project
GROUND has been broken on the build of a new electricity substation which will help connect Orkney to the GB electricity transmission network for...
The road to true net zero
As construction works towards reducing carbon emissions, John Smith, technical director at Donaldson Timber Systems, discusses why embodied carbon is critical to its success
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