Built Environment - Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) is an international centre of excellence for the built environment.By linking together clients, businesses, university experts and public sector agencies, our industry-led team supports a culture of innovation that's driving transformational change across the built environment. Our team helps to build strong collaborative projects and programmes that tackle the big challenges and opportunities facing the built environment, creating new jobs and stimulate positive economic, social and environmental impact.How do we do that? Turning innovative ideas into a realityCreating new products, business models and servicesCollaborating with industry to identify its needs and wants, and creating solutions De-Risking innovation by providing access to advanced equipment at our innovation factoryConnecting and engaging networks across the sector through our events programme We are hosted by Edinburgh Napier University and work with all of Scotland's colleges and universities from our unique Innovation Factory at Hamilton International Technology Park in Lanarkshire, central Scotland.