All Education and healthcare articles – Page 51
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Sir Robert McAlpine and Bam battle for £64m schools work
Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine and Bam Construction set to fight it out for £64m batch of priority schools in the North-east
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School refurbishment: Shouldn't you be revising?
Erno Goldfinger’s brutalist Haggerston school in north-east London has been sensitively modernised
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Wates and Bam vie for first batch of priority schools
Exclusive: Wates and Bam Construction have been shortlisted for the first £36m batch of schools under the priority schools programme
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Classroom design has 'significant impact' on pupil performance
New research challenges Michael Gove’s insistence that classroom design has limited impact on the academic performance
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Healthcare: 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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Standardise cost plans, not school layouts
The best schools are flexible spaces developed from a site-specific brief. Standardised layouts simply won’t work, says Richard Hyams - but standardised cost plans might …
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Green light for £1bn UCL Stratford campus plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands-designed 23-acre scheme will be built next to London’s Olympic Park
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Portakabin completes £3m modular primary school
Portakabin has handed over the first complete primary school in England to be built using modular construction
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Vinci wins £16m Bath university job
Vinci was won a £16m contract for the design and construction of a five-storey teaching facility at the University of Bath
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School building: United we stand
The Education Funding Agency’s baseline school designs have opened up divisions between architects and contractors when what is needed is greater collaboration
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Cornerstone wins Enfield schools deal
Company set up by former schools capital boss Tim Byles to deliver £22m school expansion programme in Enfield
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Priority schools switched from PFI programme
Some schools orginally earmarked for PFI programme will now be directly-funded
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First round of priority schools revealed
20 schools across the North-east, midlands and London will be first to come to market through the Priority School ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Programme
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Boris to help free schools find premises
Mayor of London announces new group aimed at boosting the number of sites available for free schools across the capital
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Bam wins £40m Swansea hospital job
Bam Construct has won the job to build a £40m extension to Morriston Hospital in Swansea
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Not perfect but good enough for these austere times
Baseline school designs: some may think we’re selling our children short but we need to look at a system that can deliver in tough times
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Skanska awarded £33m Essex college job
Construction of campus for 2,500 students will begin immediately
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Contractors cautious on new school designs
But firms welcome government’s insistence that innovation will still be possible
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RIBA slaps down baseline designs
Architects warn proposals are short-sighted and a recipe for bad behaviour