All Education and healthcare articles – Page 94
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NewsZaha opens Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion
Star architect Zaha Hadid's Spanish pavillion couples architecture and engineering
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NewsThe top 5 American green buildings
The founder of green website Jetson Green picks his five best completed projects in America, from housing schemes to a hotel and an office
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FeaturesKøbenhavn cool: Socially sustainable Danish architecture
Danish architecture’s love of light and openness encourages a high level of spatial and social interaction. To mark Architecture Week, Martin Spring looks at four developments that typify the city’s fresh approach to sustainability
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NewsCarillion seals £208m deal for Nottingham schools
Contract includes building or refurbishment of eight secondary schools and 25-year facilities management agreement
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FeaturesBexley Academy: Qualified success
The open-plan design of Foster + Partners’ Bexley academy was derided when it opened six years ago, and it has since suffered a leaky roof and peeling paint. Still, staff and students all really love it
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NewsTop marks for university eco-residences
Lancaster University sees its partnership with a private sector property provider pay dividends as its latest phase of student residences are awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating
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FeaturesBest of BREEAM
As BREEAM sets forth across the world, assessors have been kept busy at home – and increasingly in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
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FeaturesDoctors’ orders
For the developers of its hospitals and surgeries, the Department of Health has prescribed a good dose of BREEAM to keep it fit for the future
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NewsYour questions answered: Tim Byles on Building Schools for the Future
Last month the chief executive of Partnerships for Schools took part in a webinar on BSF, here he responds the questions it provoked
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NewsAedas academy opens in Hackney
The Petchey Academy specialises in health, care and medical services
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NewsReport finds sustainable schools don’t cost the earth
Consultant Faithful + Gould and BRE Trust say BREEAM schools rating can be achieved at little extra cost
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NewsGreen light for huge film studio complex in County Durham
Development designed by Michael Drain for Coolmore Estates will feature film studios, training facilities and actors' digs
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NewsThe Elephant's Churchyard
A new children's play area and park is first tranche of Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme
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FeaturesReducing heat loads: Testing the water at the University of Cambridge
Sustainability and innovation - When the architectural department at the University of Cambridge demanded a sustainable, lightweight building for its students, the designers had to overcome the problem of overheating
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FeaturesCost model: Schools
It’s a critical time for BSF. With the programme’s first schools just open and large-scale building starting, local authorities will begin to find out if the effort has been worthwhile. Simon Rawlinson and David Long of Davis Langdon review the issues of design and delivery
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NewsRedlands Primary School conversion
Construction Excellence surveys the school which has taken sustainable steps including water harvesting wind turbines
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NewsSustainable approach at Whitecross school
Construction Excellence assesses the challenges the contractor faced to introduce sustainable features at the Herefordshire school
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NewsImages: Zaha Hadid wins Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum
Pritzker prize-winner beats Libeskind and Fuksas to design museum in Lithuania
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NewsGreen light for art college campus at King's Cross
First phase of argents massive £180m scheme wins approval from Camden council
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NewsRespecting tradition: Oxford student housing project
Old meets new with McLennan Architects' design on conservation site