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FeaturesRoyal Marsden Hospital: The X-factor
MRI scanners weigh up to 7 tonnes each. So adding an X-ray and scanning suite to the top of a Victorian hospital in a west London conservation area required some creative thinking
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FeaturesCoventry University: The 拢60m prospectus
Arup Associates鈥� Coventry University Engineering and Computing 好色先生TV boasts a cryogenic magnet, air traffic control suite and Harrier jump jet
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FeaturesSchool refurbishment: Shouldn't you be revising?
Erno Goldfinger鈥檚 brutalist Haggerston school in north-east London has been sensitively modernised
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FeaturesHealthcare: Is the wait nearly over?
Details of the NHS restructure are now beginning to emerge, but the industry is still anxiously wondering how the new procurement system will work
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FeaturesThe university sector: Your starter for 10
Will the university sector make up for the lack of construction work elsewhere in education?
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FeaturesShould schools be uniform?
Will standardised schools herald a school building programme where design quality and educational aspiration are crushed under a monotonous wave of Identikit slabs? Ike Ijeh investigates Photos by Mike Pinches
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FeaturesAre these schools really a priority?
After six months of delays the Priority School 好色先生TV Programme could be accused of failing to live up to its name. So when will the tenders finally be released? And is there a risk the Treasury鈥檚 PFI review will hold up some schools still further?
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FeaturesEducation: Space exploration
This week the government trumpeted the opening of 55 free schools. But the success of the movement is being stymied by a lack of suitable sites, and with a further 114 schools approved for next year, the problem is set to get worse
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FeaturesUniversity Technical Colleges: Dumbing down
Until January of this year, University Technical Colleges were fast gaining favour as a way of attracting new talent into our industry. Then, out of the blue, education secretary Michael Gove downgraded vocational qualifications, putting the feasibility of the programme in question. 好色先生TV asks whether the government is making a ...
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FeaturesRedeveloping Bart's and Royal London hospitals
It was tempting to hang a 鈥榙o not resuscitate鈥� sign on two dingy, barely accessible London hospitals, but Skanska鈥檚 redevelopment of the sites has made them functional again - which should perk up medical staff and patients alike
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb鈥檚 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. 好色先生TV 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. 好色先生TV examined Bradford鈥檚 Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret
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FeaturesCost model: Standardised schools
As the James Review made clear, the future of schoolbuilding lies with low-cost standard solutions, much as it did in the fifties. Darren Talbot and Stuart Francis of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, offer an overview of this burgeoning market and consider the costs
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FeaturesTim Byles' 拢1bn development pipeline: What are the opportunities?
好色先生TV questions the former Partnerships for Schools chief on Cornerstone鈥檚 upcoming work
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FeaturesFree school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they鈥檝e opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions鈥�
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FeaturesUniversity of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King鈥檚 Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
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FeaturesLaing O'Rourke and Atkins' standardised school: How's this for smart?
Standardised doesn鈥檛 have to mean inflexible design - that鈥檚 the message from Laing O鈥橰ourke and Atkins with their clever solution to cutting school building costs. 好色先生TV reports on the surprising versatility of concrete
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FeaturesDeptford: Mixed to the max
On a single 7,000m2 site in Deptford, architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has managed to fit a community centre, artists鈥� studios, flats, a school and two playgrounds. 好色先生TV finds out how
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FeaturesSchool building programmes: Figure it out
Michael has 拢2bn of PFI money for capital spending on schools. But he also has to update the school estate and provide extra pupil places. How much more money will he need? And - for extra marks - where will it come from? Sarah Richardson works out some possible answers墀
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FeaturesThe free schools programme: Fancy free
Rachel Wolf, at 26, is in charge of delivering the government鈥檚 free schools programme. In the week the first of these schools open, she tells Sarah Richardson about how construction firms can get involved, and the importance (or not) of good design