Education & healthcare Focus 鈥� Page 2
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FeaturesFeeling run down? Fixing the NHS鈥檚 languishing estate
Will the government finally put it on the road to recovery, or merely keep it on life support?
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FeaturesHigher power: how is the universities sector shaping up?
The universities and higher education sector is as vulnerable as any to fluctuating demand 鈥� but it still has billions every year to spend on its buildings
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Features鈥楧ifferent doesn鈥檛 scare me鈥�: Mary Pierre-Harvey has big plans for Oxford Brookes
The UK鈥檚 first black female director of estates at a large UK university talks to 好色先生TV
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FeaturesSmart building: What makes UCL's Student Centre so special?
University College London鈥檚 new Student Centre is innovative, diverse, digitally enabled and focused on sustainability 鈥� just like its users.
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FeaturesProjects: London Screen Academy, Islington, London
Turning a former radio factory into a sixth-form film and television school proved a structural challenge for the project team
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FeaturesProjects: Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Haworth Tompkins鈥� new project for the Perse School, Cambridge, is part of a trend towards increasingly professional theatre facilities in schools
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FeaturesSchools: Learning to love modular
Offsite construction can offer an answer to England鈥檚 struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports
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FeaturesSchool daze: What鈥檚 happening to the government鈥檚 building plan?
Although the government has committed to spending 拢23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the聽pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant聽a聽recent聽fall in capital spending could be for construction
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Features好色先生TV utopia? How Dudley College was built using a new form of procurement
When Dudley College wanted to build a 拢10m Centre for Advanced 好色先生TV Technologies, it plumped for a new form of procurement 鈥� an insurance model that benefits the whole supply chain and covers cost overruns
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FeaturesProjects: Grange Primary School, London - top of the class
Maccreanor Lavington has given a tired Victorian school a public face and facilities suitable for modern teaching method, without compromising its original character or surroundings
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FeaturesProjects: The NHS鈥� first high-energy proton beam cancer treatment centre
The project to complete the centre, opening this summer at the Christie hospital in Manchester, was filled with a plethora of unusual challenges
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FeaturesHealth check
The government鈥檚 new PPP, Project Phoenix, was hailed as the NHS鈥� big hope, bringing much-needed cash to the ailing healthcare estate. Nearly a year on, have any hospitals been fixed up yet? And what are the other prospects for desperately needed additional funding?
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FeaturesKensington Aldridge Academy - a time lapse
Watch a time lapse video to get a glimpse of how Mace and Portakabin built a school for the Grenfell community in just nine weeks
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FeaturesBack to school: Summing up the savings
What effect will changes to funding have on the construction and education sectors, and what precedent it could set for the future?
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FeaturesBack to school: Funding formula
Universities鈥� investment in their campuses continues to be strong but for how much longer? Brexit and Labour鈥檚 election pledge to scrap fees are giving vice-chancellors the jitters.
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FeaturesSchools for scandal?
The government has put its all behind its manifesto commitment to provide 500 free schools, with 拢10bn of funding to back it up
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Features好色先生TV new schools: Between a rock and a hard place
Some 3.3 million secondary school places will be needed by 2024 -聽a 20% increase on today - but how will the demand be met?
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FeaturesUniversities: Losing the higher ground?
The university sector has provided a solid pipeline of work for construction over recent years, even in the doldrums of recession. But could demand around higher education fall following the UK vote to leave the EU?
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FeaturesDoes training need a reboot?
The industry is changing rapidly, with companies urgently trying to attract a new generation of talent and projects increasingly dependent on new technologies 鈥� it鈥檚 vital that the way we train changes too
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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?