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FeaturesKey takeaways from the 好色先生TV the Future Conference and Housing Today Live
Church House in Westminster yesterday played host to two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by 好色先生TV and Housing Today.
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FeaturesPre-election briefing: What can we expect for investment in the NHS estate?
The first of Boris Johnson鈥檚 promised 40 hospitals will open this month. But huge delays to the 拢22bn programme mean that, months before an election, procurement for most of the work hasn鈥檛 even begun and there is no certainty that Labour will push ahead. Joey Gardiner asks what it all ...
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FeaturesThe cool cafe that comes with a Cambridge college attached
Witherford Watson Mann managed to carve out a niche cafe from a sliver of land on the side of Clare College鈥檚 Old Court and in so doing improved facilities, increased accessibility and revitalised some historic buildings, Ben Flatman reports
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FeaturesSchool buildings crisis: What can the next government do to save our schools and colleges?
Public capital spending on education was less last year than at any time since Labour鈥檚 好色先生TV Schools for the Future聽programme got up to speed 17 years ago. As part of 好色先生TV鈥檚 election focus, Joey Gardiner asks what can be done to stop our schools falling further into disrepair
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FeaturesKey takeaways from the Conservative Party conference
This party conference will long be remembered as the place HS2 died. But rail was far from the only topic on the agenda in Manchester, as Daniel Gayne reports
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FeaturesInside UCL East鈥檚 new 拢250m Marshgate campus
With the biggest development in its history, UCL wanted to create a new type of university campus. Daniel Gayne reports on how the team got on
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FeaturesRebooting the New Hospital Programme: Is this the solution to the NHS backlog?
The government has unveiled a 拢20bn programme to save England鈥檚 NHS estate. Here鈥檚 how it will work
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Features鈥� Why other sectors should follow healthcare in embracing modular
Why聽we see modular construction increasingly gaining favour
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FeaturesThe fine art of creating a new campus for the RCA
In their scale and singularity, these flagship buildings designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Battersea strike just the right balance聽
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FeaturesLessons of the Nightingales: how covid changed construction
A range of pandemic-prompted innovations have changed industry practice for good. Josephine Smit talks to those who led the way
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FeaturesTake a dive into the UK鈥檚 first Passivhaus leisure centre
Exeter council trailblazes a radical alternative to the energy-guzzling swimming pool
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FeaturesUniversity challenge: the LSE鈥檚 new Marshall 好色先生TV
The brief called for sports and arts facilities, as well as teaching and research space 鈥� it inspired a highly innovative response
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FeaturesClient profile: Emma-Jane Houghton in charge of the New Hospital Programme
The commercial director leading the government鈥檚 40-hospital construction programme explains what she鈥檚 looking for from suppliers
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FeaturesRethinking Design: putting the fun back into the future
How will the hospitality and leisure sectors adapt to post-covid restrictions while satisfying our craving for excitement, wellbeing and social interaction?聽Debika Ray聽reports
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FeaturesBarony Campus: Scotland鈥檚 new super school
It has been described as the most innovative, ambitious and inclusive learning facility in the country - Sheppard Robson tells how the client ditched the frameworks route for a bespoke design聽
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FeaturesRethinking Design: how to prepare schools for the next pandemic
Continuing our series on rethinking design in the wake of the coronavirus, Jordan Marshall reports on how architects are trying to future-proof school buildings while聽making new-builds net zero
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FeaturesRethinking Design: How the pandemic transformed healthcare
In the second in our series on rethinking building design in the wake of the pandemic, Jordan Marshall reports on a booming healthcare sector and the government鈥檚 ambitious health infrastructure plans
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FeaturesHow the Grange University Hospital opened four months early
Using design for manufacture and assembly, Laing O鈥橰ourke has delivered a major new hospital in Wales under budget and four months early 鈥� no wonder the government is looking to use it as a聽model for its hospital building programme. Thomas Lane reports
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FeaturesHow are university capital budgets holding up in the face of covid?
Covid-19 and the government鈥檚 exam grading fiasco have combined to leave universities in a deep administrative and financial hole. Jordan Marshall asks industry experts what the sector needs to do
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