Fife College

Fife College is a new state-of-the-art learning campus designed by Reiach and Hall Architects as a Net Zero Carbon Pathfinder project with Scottish Futures Trust. Utilising low carbon construction materials, the new college campus building aims to be the first net zero tertiary education building in Scotland. Forming part of the Dunfermline Learning Campus, the new campus provides a collaborative approach to education to re-locate the Dunfermline Campus of Fife College, and St Columba’s RC High School and Woodmill High School, on a shared site at Duloch.

Aspiring to create an innovative learning campus, the new centre for Innovation and Events will provide state of the art facilities for students from school through to further and higher education. Designed to meet the learning and training needs of businesses and the wider community the project aims to provide long lasting social and economic opportunities for the local community in Fife for generations to come.



With a campus that spans over 20,000m², the college is the largest  pathfinder project for the Scottish Government’s Net Zero Public Sector Buildings Standard in Scotland. The standard was established by the Scottish Government to drive net zero outcomes for new buildings and major refurbishments within the public sector.

Aiming to achieve these standards, the project team integrated carbon, energy and environmental considerations into the design of the new school while also utilising low-carbon materials such as cross-laminated timber and green delta beams delivered by B&K Hybrid Solutions. 

Employing a hybrid cross laminated timber, structural steelwork and Peikko Deltabeam solution to form a low-carbon frame, the new Dunfermline Learning Campus is expected to meet the Scottish Government’s Carbon Targets, saving 25% of the embodied carbon usually anticipated in a structure of this scale.



B&K Hybrid Solutions were selected to deliver the timber-steel frame utilising our extensive experience with Cross Laminated Timber and Steel. We were engaged under a PCSA to develop the Peikko Group Corporation Deltabeam and CLT solution with the project team, including detailed vibration analysis of the long span floor plate and the development of critical connection details.

The largest Deltabeam and CLT hybrid project in the country, B&K Hybrid Solutions designed and delivered over 1,400 tonnes of structural steelwork and almost 2,000m³ of CLT to create a sustainable campus for over 4,500 students and facility – one of our largest Education projects to date.



B&K Hybrid Solutions’ extensive experience with steelwork and Cross Laminated Timber has been invaluable in developing the Deltabeam and CLT solution.
Engaged under a PCSA, BKHS developed the solution with the project team, including detailed vibration analysis of the long span floor plate and development of critical connection analysis. 

The design for Fife College is world leading with regards to its operational energy performance and is therefore being used as a Pathfinder project, with a strong focus on also diverting as much of the construction waste from landfill as possible. Every aspect of the new campus has been designed with learners in mind and is being carefully created to give students the best experience and facilities for their course.