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Escalating delays hit £2bn school building programme
Launch of contracts likely to be put back after scheme is swamped with high volume of bids for funding
Features
Free school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they’ve opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions…
University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
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We can deliver cost-effective schools while keeping BREEAM
The subtext to the debate over scrapping the BREEAM standard for school buildings is that it costs too much, but, says Sean Lockie, that ignores our ability to deliver schools efficiently
Providing schools: Creative classes
We don’t have enough places for kids in the schools their parents want. A new approach is needed: adapting other public buildings for education and bringing in private help to show us how
School buildings: Could achieve great things
Schools need results and, with a new building programme on its way, the design and construction industries are the best people to deliver
Schools crisis: ‘We have a responsibility to school our children’
Barking and Dagenham has to be the council the worst affected by the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme. We look at the impact on pupils and construction in a deprived east London borough that is fast running out of space
BSF expert panel
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Schools special: £2.5bn of schools funding to be allocated this autumn
Schools capital funding worth £2.5bn will be divided up between local authorities and schools this autumn, in a move which will provide a much needed boost to firms involved in the education sector
Education data
Cost model update: Small projects
In this latest update, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reviews the capital costs of primary schools, social housing and small industrial buildings
Case studies
Design visuals
Skanska wins £25m Bath Spa University job
Firm beat off competition from Bam, Cowlin, Leadbitter and Sir Robert McAlpine to win the project
Shepherd Construction wins £12m Grantham academy job
The project in Grantham will include demolition of the current building and construction of a new two storey block
Bruntwood to deliver £60m Manchester Business School development
BDP-masterplanned project will include a four-star hotel, conference venue and education centre
