Project Scotland | The Scottish Construction News Magazine
22 July 2024. Project Scotland remains the only construction news magazine published in Scotland and thus the only publication properly placed to fully reflect industry thinking north of the border. Editorial includes project news, business, site and sector reports. In addition, we have regular features covering civil engineering, insulation ...
New stats highlight 'under-resourced and ill-equipped' Scottish ...
2 days ago · Image credit: Chris Watt. SECTOR body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has claimed newly published planning application statistics illustrate a planning service which is ‘under-resourced and ill-equipped’ to deal with the nation’s housing emergency. The figures covering the period for the financial year 2023/2024 show that, despite a 29% decrease ...
Retrofit Scotland relaunched to accelerate delivery of sustainable ...
6 days ago · 7 November 2024. RETROFIT Scotland has been relaunched at the International Retrofit Conference in a bid to scale neighbourhood retrofit delivery. Delivered by Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST), the programme aims to help reduce carbon emissions and improve the quality of housing across Scotland to make neighbourhoods warmer ...
Sites identified in Glasgow for delivery of 4,320 homes
6 days ago · 7 November 2024. GLASGOW City Council has identified 37 sites across the city which have the potential to deliver 4,320 new homes. The news comes as part of the unveiling of the local authority’s five-year plan aimed at addressing Glasgow’s housing emergency. Alongside the new sites identified, the council said there is potential for it to ...
Accelerate to Zero award winners revealed at Glasgow ceremony
5 days ago · Highly Commended: Civic Engineers. Retrofit Accelerator Award sponsored by Clark Contracts. Winner: Vital Energi Utilities (The Torry Heat Network) Accelerate to Zero Hero Award. Winner: Ecosystems Technologies. Highly Commended: IndiNature. BE-ST Beacon Award. Winner: Gina Colley, Threesixty Architecture. Winner: Sean Smith, The University of ...
Why PPM is critical to housing stock’s net zero journey
5 days ago · 8 November 2024. Greig Fenton. By Greig Fenton, regional director at Thomas & Adamson, part of Egis Group. The journey to net zero can seem a large, ominous, and expensive undertaking for housing providers. Some 2.9 million homes are owned by housing associations in England, with another 528,000 across the devolved nations, so it is certainly ...
What will 2024 have in store for Scotland’s construction industry?
Jan 3, 2024 · Student accommodation will be an important source of work for construction in Scotland over the next 2-3 years but by contrast, investment in build-to-rent (BTR) and new project starts have slowed significantly. This is due to the Scottish Government’s policy on rent caps and eviction protections and so is unlikely to change in 2024 and beyond.
What is the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard delivering?
Sep 23, 2024 · Scottish Government launched the Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard at COP26 as a voluntary initiative. Expressing net zero intentions for projects is complex and nuanced, with early adoption and refinement best led by public bodies’ commitment, rather than compulsion by government. We didn’t know what the uptake would be, but for ...
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Project Scotland remains the only construction news magazine published in Scotland and thus the only publication properly placed to fully reflect industry thinking north of the border. Editorial includes project news, business, site and sector reports. In addition, we have regular features covering civil engineering, insulation, flooring ...
Scaling up Passivhaus in Scotland | Project Scotland
Oct 9, 2024 · This is an important achievement given the discrepancy between design aspiration and as-built performance of many new buildings in the UK can be as much as 50-100% (the ‘performance gap’). Our project at Drymen was one of the first certified Passivhaus social housing projects in Scotland. It was a mixture of housing for over-55s and general ...
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