All Education and healthcare articles – Page 60
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NewsUniversity of Surrey: Gold-standard education
The University of Surrey’s £10.8m integrated learning centre and languages department, designed by RMJM’s London studio, has been completed
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Archive TitlesNine firms could share national schools building survey work
Study to examine condition of 23,000 schools will form basis for future funding
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FeaturesLaing O'Rourke and Atkins' standardised school: How's this for smart?
Standardised doesn’t have to mean inflexible design - that’s the message from Laing O’Rourke and Atkins with their clever solution to cutting school building costs. Building reports on the surprising versatility of concrete
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NewsGove targets 50 London free schools by 2015
Education secretary keen to expand controversial school-building programme but reveals no new targets for academies
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NewsArchitects question 'politically dumb' Stirling prize
Former RIBA president questions decision to award prize to expensive school in current economic climate
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NewsThin joint lintels
Catnic has introduced a selection of lintels suitable for use with thin joint masonry called CTJ90
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Insulated wall panels
Kingspan Curvewall architectural exterior insulated wall panels have been used in a student hall of residence in Dundee
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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’ studios, flats, a school and two playgrounds. Building finds out how
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Timed flow washroom control
Rada has launched a range of timed flow washroom controls for taps and shower units
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NewsFibre cement cladding
Marley Eternit’s Pictura fibre cement cladding has been used on a learning resource centre at Bournside School in Cheltenham.
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Gypsum-based board
British Gypsum has launched a water-resistant plasterboard called Glasroc H Tilebacker
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Anti-bacterial doorsets
Leaderflush Shapland supplied doors to the Francis Coombe Academy in Watford
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NewsCouncil lawyers challenge Gove conduct in BSF affair
Sandwell council questions Gove’s use of private emails
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FeaturesThe free schools programme: Fancy free
Rachel Wolf, at 26, is in charge of delivering the government’s 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
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CommentProviding schools: Creative classes
We don’t have enough places for kids in the schools their parents want. A new approach is needed: adapting other public buildings for education and bringing in private help to show us how
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CommentSchools crisis: ‘We have a responsibility to school our children’
Barking and Dagenham has to be the council the worst affected by the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme. We look at the impact on pupils and construction in a deprived east London borough that is fast running out of space
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FeaturesSchool building programmes: Figure it out
Michael has £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 answersܯ