All Education and healthcare articles – Page 56
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LSE's New Student Centre achieves BREEAM Outstanding
LSE’s New Student Centre is the 17th building worldwide to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating
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Exclusive: DfE to cut the size of special schools by 20%
Gove urged to reconsider move that disregards two-year-old regulations based on expert research
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Cabe backs Atkins’ standardised school design
Design review verdict offers boost to controversial standardisation agenda
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Libya plans 'at least' seven new hospitals
UKTI reveals country investigating PPP models to finance hospital buildings programme
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Design watchdog warns over 'bargain basement' schools
Design Council Cabe’s director criticises government moves to relax space and sustainability standards
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Stoke shortlists four for £108m housing PFI
Balfour Beatty, Lovell Partnership, and Morgan Sindall among contenders for sheltered housing programme
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Conran to design £60m Lambeth school redevelopment
Architect Conran + Partners named for project to convert Lilian Baylis School and develop 220 homes
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Eco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove’s free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it’s not just the curriculum that has been relaxed - increasingly, sustainability and space requirements are being dropped too. Now fears are growing that this latest austerity measure could spread to all new schools, as Allister Hayman reports
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Firms slam vocational qualification downgrade
Training heads say downgrading of qualifications may undermine raft of new technical colleges
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Redeveloping Bart's and Royal London hospitals
It was tempting to hang a ‘do not resuscitate’ sign on two dingy, barely accessible London hospitals, but Skanska’s redevelopment of the sites has made them functional again - which should perk up medical staff and patients alike
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£550m Qatar win boosts EC Harris
Project will ‘benefit the firm in targeting more health work’, says global account leader
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Movers & makers 2 March 2012: Healthcare
A round-up up news from healthcare manufacturers
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More delays hit flagship £2bn schools programme
Ministers push back contracts on Priority Schools ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Programme, delaying construction till 2013
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Gove approves reduction in school sizes
Fears that reduction in space standards for new schools of up to 15% could ‘squeeze’ classroom sizes
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Selling unused NHS estate could reap £1bn
The NHS is sitting on underused estate equivalent to the entire footprint of Sainsbury’s UK stores, report finds
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Boots man lands schools capital role
Mike Green, from Alliance Boots Property, has been appointed director of capital at the Education Funding Agency
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Laing O'Rourke wins £288m Alder Hey contract
Contractor successful bidder for new Merseyside hospital deal
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From 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb’s 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. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV reports
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The 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. ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV examined Bradford’s Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret
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Cost 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