Scotland' Housing Expo

As Scotland’s Housing Expo enters its last week as a public exhibition, organisers are urging visitors to support the eco-friendly ethos of the project by leaving their cars at home.

Scotland’s Housing Expo is a development of over 50 homes built to showcase leading edge house designs and building techniques that promote ‘green’ and sustainable living...Keep reading +

Scotland’s Housing Expo in Inverness celebrated its 10,000 visitor on Friday 13 August as Aislinn Haszeldine and her family walked through the gates.

Aislinn from Falkland in Fife attended the Expo with her husband Stuart and children Suilven (2), Hamish (5) and Elfie (7).

To celebrate the milestone for Expo attendance Aislinn was awarded with a £50 IKEA voucher by Scotland’s Housing Expo Project Manager Fiona Hampton and Ally Tomney of IKEA...Keep reading +

The final of the Key Mania competition took place at Scotland’s Housing Expo yesterday, Sunday 8 August. Over the past three weeks, two hundred listeners of Moray Firth Radio had been successful in winning a key and the chance to open the door to a cash prize of £5,000 at Scotland’s Housing Expo...Keep reading +

Today, acclaimed British fashion designer, turned bastion of urban regeneration and social design, Wayne Hemingway visited the UK’s first ever eco-housing fair, Scotland’s Housing Expo.

Hemingway, who is working with Inverness based landscape architects Horner & Maclennan, to create nine of the gardens at the Expo, is passionate about the ethos of the Expo and promoting a better social living environment by forging a greater sense of community...Keep reading +

An exhibition of the UK’s first sustainable housing expo, which will open in Inverness this weekend, is on display at the Eastgate Shopping Centre in Inverness from 23rd July to 31st August.

A series of scale models will demonstrate the layout of the housing expo, including over 50 cutting edge sustainable homes and the surrounding pathways, roads, trees, social spaces and community areas...Keep reading +

Deeside Timberframe Ltd, part of the successful Bancon Group of companies, is delighted to announce it’s involvement with Scotland’s first ever Housing Expo.

Working together in partnership with a number of architects, engineers and Main Contractors they have supplied twenty three of the fifty two properties at the Expo...Keep reading +

Nearly 600 visitors braved the rain yesterday (1 August) to get the first look at the eco-friendly homes on show to the public at Scotland’s Housing Expo, Milton of Leys, Inverness.

Organisers welcomed 568 adults and children on the first day of the event, which runs throughout the whole of August and showcases award-winning architecture to promote sustainable, ‘green’ living...Keep reading +

Visitors to Scotland’s Housing Expo this August will be able to find out about the latest house sale prices on their doorstep from Registers of Scotland (RoS).

An online house price search is just one of the public services that this Government body will be promoting at the month-long Expo. RoS is responsible for the nation’s land and property ownership registers called the General Register of Sasines and the Land Register...Keep reading +

Russwood, like Scotland’s Housing Expo, sees Highland roots as no obstacle to branching out to reach a national, and even international audience.

Russwood’s Scotlarch® in particular has proved to have a widespread appeal, and this sustainable timber is shipped the length and breadth of the country...Keep reading +

Timberplay Ltd have created the bespoke community play space to support Scotland’s Housing Expo, showcasing their innovative play equipment and strong landscaping skills.

Nestled amongst the state of the art designed homes, Timberplay’s play space serves as a great focal point for the emerging community, providing a natural meeting point and a variety of play equipment to entertain children of all ages...Keep reading +

Children visiting Scotland’s Housing Expo will be able to build their own unique and colourful houses thanks to support from one of the development contractors, Robertson Highland and Expo partner, Sust.

Robertson Highland has donated a truckload of LEGO to the Expo, which will be placed in one of the homes built by the developer. As well as offering a space for kids to get creative the home will also be used to inform visitors about the construction industry, providing information about Robertson Highland as a business and also featuring Inverness College School of Construction & Forestry and Charleston Academy to highlight education in construction...Keep reading +

Albyn Housing Society will showcase the latest in eco and budget friendly living during Scotland’s Housing Expo next month.

The Invergordon-based housing association is funding the development of all its properties at the Expo at a cost of £1.2million.

Visitors to the Expo will have a sneak-peek into the future of affordable housing...Keep reading +

Leading Home Furnishing Store Joins Host of Independent Retailers and Craftsmen.

One of the UK’s biggest home furnishing stores will be arriving in Inverness next month to provide home and interior design inspiration for visitors to Scotland’s Housing Expo at Milton of Leys...Keep reading +

With their emphasis on quality of design and sustainability, VELUX is the perfect partner for Scotland’s Expo. In addition to sponsoring the homes on Plots 7 and 25, their products are also featured in many of the other houses on the site.

Maker of the world’s leading roof windows for more than 60 years, VELUX is a forward thinking company whose values are built on daylight, fresh air and quality of life...Keep reading +

The experts in Highland property for more than 30 years, Highland Solicitors Property Centre is delighted to add its support to Scotland’s Housing Expo.

We believe the expo will be a tremendous showcase for the Highlands and Islands, focussing attention on this as a place to live and work.

The show comes at an exciting time...Keep reading +

Granite cobbles that once paved the streets of Inverness city centre have been given a new lease of life as part of Scotland’s Housing Expo.

In keeping with the Housing Expo’s aim to promote eco-friendly living and the use of sustainable materials, the cobbles and setts, which date back to the late 1800s, will now be incorporated in to the landscaping of the development at Milton of Leys...Keep reading +

Scotframe Timber Engineering Ltd has just confirmed additional support as a sponsor to the Expo event on top of the timber frame components the company has already supplied to a number of builders & developers on the Expo site.

Scotframe is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and is the first Scottish licencee to manufacture Supawall® a high thermal performance closed panel system which is being adopted by self builders, builders, developers, architects and housing associations throughout Scotland...Keep reading +

Take your kids along for free to enjoy a family day out this summer at Scotland’s Housing Expo; an event that will create a vibrant and living community around the development of over 50 fantastic homes, all going on show to the public during August...Keep reading +

The leisure and tourist industry in Inverness is gearing up to support Scotland’s Housing Expo.

Over 20,000 marketing leaflets are being distributed to organisations and groups including the Inverness Hoteliers Association and Inverness Guest House Association to support the promotional drive for the month-long event...Keep reading +

A group of professionals from across Scotland’s design industries will be given a preview of Scotland’s Housing Expo this month before it is unveiled to the public in August.

Members of the Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) will find out more about the Expo as part of the organisation’s AGM, which will take place in Inverness and Culloden from 21-23 May under the theme ‘Sustainability and Identity’...Keep reading +

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning Michael Russell visited the site of Scotland’s Housing Expo in Inverness after meeting with local schoolchildren who have been learning about its significance for Scotland’s construction industry as part of their Skills for Work course.

Millburn Academy is one of three local schools in the Highlands that have created Skills for Work partnerships with contractors developing Scotland’s Housing Expo...Keep reading +

Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway to create Scotland’s future in community living.

Acclaimed British fashion designers, turned bastions of urban regeneration and social design, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway will be helping to create the future of community living at the UK’s first ever eco-housing fair...Keep reading +

Scotland’s Housing Expo has launched a new-look website with information about this major event which is set to take place at Balvonie Braes off the A9 near Inverness throughout the whole of August 2010...Keep reading +

First UK Housing Expo set to boost Scottish construction industry.

Today (16th December 2009), Scotland’s Housing Expo reported a major boost to the Scottish construction industry, with the appointment of the Highland Contractors Consortium Ltd as principal contractor to build 55 architecturally designed sustainable homes that will be showcased in Inverness at the UK’s first Housing Expo in August 2010...Keep reading +

Following a meeting of the Scotland’s Housing Expo Community Liaison Group.

Scotland’s Housing Expo forged stronger links with the local community this week following a meeting of the Scotland’s Housing Expo Community Liaison Group...Keep reading +

Ullapool gets a glimpse of future living

An exhibition of the UK’s first sustainable housing expo, which will be held in Inverness in 2010, will go on display at the MacPhail Centre in Ullapool on Monday 2nd November...Keep reading +

Get a glimpse of the future in Inverness

An exhibition of the UK’s first sustainable housing expo, which will be held in Inverness in 2010, will go on display at Eden Court from Tuesday (20 October)...Keep reading +

An exhibition of Scotland’s Housing Expo/ Highland Housing Fair will be held in the SUST Gallery in the Lighthouse from 21 May - 9 August 2009...Keep reading +

The Fair aims to showcase 55 architecturally designed eco-homes, based on a model found in Finland and mainland Europe, which has been established for over 40 years...Keep reading +

The Highland Housing Fair will showcase 54 architecturally designed eco-homes and is based on a model found in Finland and mainland Europe established for over 40 years...Keep reading +

Full planning consent has been granted for a total of 53 architect-designed homes to be showcased at the Housing Fair, which will take place in August 2009...Keep reading +

Highland Housing Fair coordinator, Fiona Porteous, said: “We are delighted with today’s turnout. Local people have been very supportive of the Fair and see it not only as important for Inverness but also for the wider Highlands, Scotland and the UK...Keep reading +

The Highland Housing Fair will be based on a successful model that is found throughout mainland Europe, particularly Finland. Its purpose is to showcase the very best in housing design and innovation, with sustainability being the key theme throughout...Keep reading +

The cream of Scottish architecture to showcase designs at the UK’s first ever Housing Fair

Organisers of the UK’s very first Housing Fair have now announced that it will take place in the Highlands of Scotland throughout the whole of August 2009...Keep reading +