All Education and healthcare articles – Page 88
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Rivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio’s flamboyant design for York St John University’s new quadrangle in England’s most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it’s built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
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Former education minister calls for more spending on schools
Former education secretary Estelle Morris has urged the government to plough more money into school building during the recession
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Video: How Bouygues got high on concrete at Pimlico Academy
Watch how one of Britain’s highest concrete pours meant 10.4m-high walls were completed in double-quick time
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Barr, Kier and Rok join £20m Scots schools framework
Four-year appointment covers new-build and refurbishment work for Scottish LEAs
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Bouygues wins £10m of London school and housing work
Contractor is appointed to extend a primary school in Leyton and design and build new homes in Brent
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Tim Byles video interview
Partnerships for Schools chief executive Tim Byles spoke about the state of education sector at last week's BSEC event
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Cost model update: Public sector
With the construction market in reverse and tender prices in freefall, it’s crucial to have the latest building costs. This update has been compiled by Max Wilkes and Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon
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Secondary school design: Chasing rabbits
Small architects have been all but shut out from BSF, but that doesn’t stop them from going to the schools themselves to find out what pupils really want from their buildings (hot tubs, juice bars and rabbit runs, apparently … )
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Primary capital programme: Little marvels
Primary schools are often small projects, but with £7bn-worth in the pipeline, they may be a lifeline for the industry’s SMEs
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Do well at schools: How to win BSF work
If you want to come out at the top of the class in the competition for ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Schools for the Future work, now’s the time to pull your socks up
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£10bn of PFI schemes put on ice amid funding freeze
Council pension funds may plug school funding gap as bank lending to government schemes dries up
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Jim Knight at BSEC - video
The schools minister offered his thoughts on the education sector at the BSEC event on 12 February
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BSEC 2010 moving to the Capital
The ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Schools for the Future Programme, City Academies and the Primary Capital Programme have had a huge impact on education spending in the UK with an estimated £100 billion being spent from now until 2020
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Carillion seals the deal on £300m Tameside BSF
JV with local education partnership to build more than 12 schools reaches financial close
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New schools fail to meet acoustic standards
Deafness society calls for statutory requirements for acoustics after up to 40% of schools say their building are below par
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV pathology: Schools windows
Cheap fixes are the wrong approach to installing manually operated windows in schools. Peter Mayer of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV LifePlans explains some of the pitfalls and suggests how to avoid them
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School toilets: Bog standard
If the government is to stand a chance of meeting its school building target, it will need to use standard specifications and designs for a range of elements – starting with the loos
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New delay to £350m Salford scheme as BSF woes mount
Contract now 14 months late as audit office highlights £1bn-a-year shortfall in schools programme
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Designer reveals new school chair for all sizes
Newton chair is designed to encourage active sitting for today's 'taller and fatter' children
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Schools building programme up to £10bn over budget
National Audit Office report says delivering ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTVs Schools for the Future would be a 'real challenge'