Education & healthcare Comment – Page 5
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CommentWhy hospital design matters
Evidence is mounting that good hospital design is hugely important to patients and NHS staff alike
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CommentA revolution with results
With vastly improved GCSE marks and a steady community use, Barnsley’s Horizon College makes the case for school investment
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CommentBasic errors: The school places crisis
The ‘smoking gun’ of the school places shortage is being exacerbated by a gap between government funding and the cost of provision
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CommentThe challenges of competition in healthcare
The use of competition in healthcare provision is producing some illogical decisions and failing to improve the estate
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CommentGetting the NHS back to good health
Instead of mending wards and extending areas of the NHS estate in a piecemeal manner, we need a long-term development plan from well developed proposals
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CommentLessons in group learning
A lack of collaboration in school building projects is the problem we need to address to solve the more for less equation
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CommentThe NHS estate: Form and function
NHS Property Services should seize the opportunity in its latest review of facilities to ensure that form follows clinical function
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CommentSchools for our times
It’s possible to design a good school on a tiny budget – it may not win the Stirling prize, but who cares?
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CommentThe schools we lack
There is a dramatic need to increase the number of school places, and that means opportunities for construction
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CommentTwo schools of thought
It’s ironic that this government is pushing for standardised designs for most schools but has a liberal approach when it comes to academies and free schools
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CommentChanging how we deliver healthcare
A new, community-based model of healthcare could create the equivalent of 40 extra beds per hospital
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CommentStudent accommodation LADs: Missing the start of term
Contractors and developers are used to paying LADs when a project is running late. But missing a deadline on student accommodation can lead to more complex issues
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CommentBack of the class
Whereas primary schools and universities are delivering well-designed buildings, secondary schools have fallen behind and are now in need of urgent guidance
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CommentHospitals: Get better soon
Hospitals can transform a stressful situation into a positive experience or a nightmare. So if you want some civilised treatment, you should get ill in France
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CommentSchools: are we failing future generations?
School buildings must provide opportunities for children to learn as well as being designed to be as long-lived as practicable
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CommentOne step forward
The government’s recent record of communicating clearly with construction is poor – except about standardised schools
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CommentStandardise cost plans, not school layouts
The best schools are flexible spaces developed from a site-specific brief. Standardised layouts simply won’t work, says Richard Hyams - but standardised cost plans might …
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CommentSchool building: United we stand
The Education Funding Agency’s baseline school designs have opened up divisions between architects and contractors when what is needed is greater collaboration
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CommentNot perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we’re selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times