Fife College

Fife College, Fife Council and their partners set out to consolidate St Columba’s RC High School, Woodmill High School and the college’s Halbeath Campus into a single 58-acre site in Dunfermline. This complex, multi-stakeholder development was not only ambitious in scale and scope, but also in its sustainability aspirations - targeting compliance with the Scottish Government’s Net Zero Public Sector Building Standards and aiming to set a precedent for low-carbon educational infrastructure across the country.

G&T provided Cost Management, Project Management, Employer's Agent and Principal Designer & CDM Consultancy services to support the successful delivery of this landmark scheme. As a Scottish Futures Trust Pathfinder project, the campus implemented rigorous embodied and whole-life carbon assessments, which we helped manage and verify throughout. With three distinct buildings on site, the main teaching block achieved an embodied carbon footprint of just over 560kg CO₂e/m², with an overall campus average of 601kg CO₂e/m²—significantly outperforming the target of 650kg CO₂e/m². This collaborative approach ensured design excellence, budget control and programme certainty, all while meeting exacting sustainability criteria.

Fife College, Dunfermline Learning Campus is now recognised as Scotland’s first net-zero ready tertiary education facility. Designed to inspire the next generation, it delivers industry-standard workshops, centres of excellence in engineering, construction, built environment and sport, along with innovation hubs and expansive outdoor learning spaces. As a verified exemplar of climate-conscious design, it has set a new benchmark for public sector buildings and demonstrates what can be achieved when environmental ambition is embedded from the outset.