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Examples of solar energy in Scotland

"Living in Sun" was the title of a seminar organised by the Scottish Solar Energy Group. John Gilbert Architects prepared a one page summary of thirteen projects, complete with location maps (in Glasgow, unless otherwise stated), available below as PDF documents.

1. Shettleston housing

2. Easthall: innovative pilot project

3. Plean, Stirling: solar sunspaces

4. Hutchesontown: multi-storey sunspaces and district heating

5. Solar buffer house, Isle of Lewis

6. Cardow Road: small scale communal heating system on a flat rate.

7. Trisol: rural housing in the Highlands: active solar

8. Duns: low energy housing

9. James Nisbet Street: sunspaces and thebeginnings of a green spec.

10. Burdiehouse, Edinburgh: simple solar roof collector

11. Solar attic, Scotstoun

12. Berkeley Street: imaginative housing infill

13. Alexandria: solar venting