All Education and healthcare articles – Page 87
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FeaturesEdward Cullinan's Stonebridge estate: pride of place
Edward Cullinan’s mixed-use Hillside Hub completes the overhaul of a north-west London estate that John Major once avoided for fear of being shot. Dan Stewart finds it a reformed character
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NewsMcBains Cooper wins BSF contract
Consultant will be employer’s agent on £30m secondary school project in Bracknell
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Comment
Sound education
Acoustics within schools remains widely overlooked, despite the introduction of BB93, the government standards for the acoustic design of schools. This needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency
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News
Fifty-seven more consortiums to offer C&BE diploma
Schools minister announcement will mean nearly 80% of young people can study for construction qualification
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NewsIt was meant to be a £4bn refuge from recession
So how did a government programme to renew further education colleges blow its budget by 150%, putting 144 schemes and 40,000 jobs at risk?
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FeaturesMarkets: your best bets
The recession is long, resources are short and bidding is always a gamble. So which sectors should you have a punt on? Sarah Richardson and Emily Wright run an eye over the runners and riders
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NewsStalled college programme could cost £16bn to finish
Independent review condemns Learning and Skills Council for ‘delay and confusion’
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NewsI like the cover: Library of Birmingham
Designs for £193m library by Dutch architect Mecanoo are revealed
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NewsUKCG calls for cabinet-level action on stalled colleges
Letters confirm no prospect of imminent unblocking of £2.5bn-worth of projects
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NewsLearning and Skills Council head quits
Mark Haysom resigns over continuing problems with £2.3bn college rebuilding programme
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NewsGalliford Try wins £43m school and homes project in Rutland
Contractor named on development of 900-student school and 120 homes at Big Build in Oakham
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FeaturesWill Alsop's Peckham library revisited
Source: Astrid Kogler The front elevation, complete with giraffe-leg columns
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NewsSchools quango to wield £50bn building spend
More than £50bn of capital investment is to be put in the hands of the organisation running the government’s £45bn secondary school programme
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NewsFrozen college projects cost £2m each per month
Contractor BAM says its 11 projects on hold cost £22m a month
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NewsGreen light for Broadway Malyan's £84m college at Longbridge
Planning granted to new premises for Bournville College at St Modwen's redevelopment of MG Rover factory site
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NewsInterserve wins £280m Sandwell BSF contract
Consortium led by contractor will build and improve 20 schools over the next 10 years
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NewsContractors told to cut bids 10% or lose college jobs
Pressure mounts as government admits it only has funds for half of proposed schemes
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FeaturesDon't sweat it: Arup's National Physical Laboratory
Building a laboratory where temperatures are controlled to the nearest 0.1ºC is scary enough. But when you have the added possibility of radiation leaks and you know the job finished off the last firm to try it, well, you could forgive Arup for being ‘a bit nervous’
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NewsSchool spending brought forward a year
Over 100 local authorities will share nearly half of government's £919m boost to construction
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FeaturesRivington 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