Education & healthcare Focus – Page 3
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FeaturesOccupational health: Fit for purpose
The construction industry has made huge progress on on-site safety in the last 20 years but health conditions have largely been neglected. Are things starting to change?
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FeaturesUniversities: Short-term fix
Raising tuition fees gave university estates a shot in the arm, in terms of investment. But with student numbers predicted to fall and competition fierce, how can institutions maintain that momentum?
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FeaturesSchool places: Do the math
The Department for Education is scratching its head over how to meet the demand for 25% more school places at a time of rising construction inflation and a dearth of available urban land
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FeaturesUniversity challenge
With contractors more choosy about the projects they bid for, and inflation eroding HE’s fixed tuition fee income, can universities remain attractive to the industry?
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FeaturesSchools: Where are they all going to sit?
25% more new school places will be needed in the next five years than the previous five, yet the government is cutting overall capital funding by 16%
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FeaturesTime to go back to school?
When it comes to school building work, the construction industry has been tasked with doing ‘more for less’, but as the economy picks up is it time for a rethink?
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FeaturesInfographic: Growth in need for school places
Projected UK population growth, following inward migration and rising fertility, will have a huge impact on the need for school places, with an overall increase of 12% in the school-age population expected between 2012 and 2024. But the data shows the impact will vary widely between English regions.
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FeaturesStudent digs
Despite rising tuition fees, university applications in the UK have risen to an all-time high. How is the industry is coping with the demand for student accommodation?
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FeaturesBroadwater Farm Inclusive Campus: Down on the farm
The Broadwater Farm Inclusive Campus accommodates on one site both special educational needs and mainstream schooling and is the culmination of a radical programme of inner-city renewal
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FeaturesBricks and mortar boards
With a constant need to attract the best students, the development of universities has remained a strong sector for the construction industry. But are universities making the most of the connections with the cities they are in? Our roundtable of industry experts gathered to discuss the issues faced by our ...
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FeaturesPriority School Building Programme update: 10 key questions answered
Find out what work is to be procured next under the flagship building programme, and which contractors have won the most work so far
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FeaturesAre free schools too cheap by half?
Michael Gove may want free schools to succeed but his department won’t be throwing much money their way. So are these cut-price schools up to the job or doomed to become places for kids to fail in?
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FeaturesSchool buildings: Do the math
The DfE has so far failed to hit its construction cost cutting targets, why?
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FeaturesModular assembly forest school
Lime Tree Primary School, a modular assembly forest school in Greater Manchester, has a sensitive design concept from standardised elements
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FeaturesInterview: Mark Swindlehurst
The chair of the Association of University Directors of Estates talks to Building about opportunities in the universities sector
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FeaturesSpending Round: Who's for cake?
What will George Osborne portion out to construction in his Spending Round?
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FeaturesPriority Schools Building Programme: 10 key questions answered
The current state of play with the government’s controversial programme
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FeaturesPF2: Vote of no confidence
Is the government about to ditch PF2 before it’s even been tested?
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FeaturesInterview: Mike Green
The man in charge of capital works at the Education Funding Agency has his finger on the ‘go’ button
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FeaturesPodSolve: Flexible friend
Leeds East Academy is the UK’s first school to consist of a warehouse full of moveable classroom pods