All Education and healthcare articles – Page 56
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NewsTechnical colleges work at risk
Government’s downgrading of vocational education puts £750m pipeline of work building colleges at risk
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NewsLSE's New Student Centre achieves BREEAM Outstanding
LSE’s New Student Centre is the 17th building worldwide to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating
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NewsExclusive: DfE to cut the size of special schools by 20%
Gove urged to reconsider move that disregards two-year-old regulations based on expert research
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NewsCabe backs Atkins’ standardised school design
Design review verdict offers boost to controversial standardisation agenda
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NewsLibya plans 'at least' seven new hospitals
UKTI reveals country investigating PPP models to finance hospital buildings programme
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NewsDesign watchdog warns over 'bargain basement' schools
Design Council Cabe’s director criticises government moves to relax space and sustainability standards
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NewsStoke shortlists four for £108m housing PFI
Balfour Beatty, Lovell Partnership, and Morgan Sindall among contenders for sheltered housing programme
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NewsConran to design £60m Lambeth school redevelopment
Architect Conran + Partners named for project to convert Lilian Baylis School and develop 220 homes
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CommentEco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove’s free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it’s not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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NewsFirms slam vocational qualification downgrade
Training heads say downgrading of qualifications may undermine raft of new technical colleges
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FeaturesRedeveloping Bart's and Royal London hospitals
It was tempting to hang a ‘do not resuscitate’ sign on two dingy, barely accessible London hospitals, but Skanska’s redevelopment of the sites has made them functional again - which should perk up medical staff and patients alike
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News£550m Qatar win boosts EC Harris
Project will ‘benefit the firm in targeting more health work’, says global account leader
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NewsMore delays hit flagship £2bn schools programme
Ministers push back contracts on Priority Schools Building Programme, delaying construction till 2013
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NewsGove approves reduction in school sizes
Fears that reduction in space standards for new schools of up to 15% could ‘squeeze’ classroom sizes
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NewsSelling unused NHS estate could reap £1bn
The NHS is sitting on underused estate equivalent to the entire footprint of Sainsbury’s UK stores, report finds
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NewsBoots man lands schools capital role
Mike Green, from Alliance Boots Property, has been appointed director of capital at the Education Funding Agency
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NewsLaing O'Rourke wins £288m Alder Hey contract
Contractor successful bidder for new Merseyside hospital deal
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb’s grand semi-circle of buildings conceived for Birmingham university in 1900 was the original redbrick campus. But only four of its five neo-Byzantine pavilions were ever built. Now Glenn Howells Architects and Bam have finished the job. Building reports
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FeaturesThe University of Bradford: The stuff of BREEAM
For a university to have one building with an unprecedented 95% BREEAM score is impressive, but to have two suggests it really knows what it is doing. Building examined Bradford’s Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret