All Education and healthcare articles – Page 95
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FeaturesHowe Dell: Too cool for school?
Healthcare and education The Howe Dell school and children’s centre project was commissioned by Hertfordshire council in order to test the latest eco-friendly systems, and as Chloë Stothart discovers, its most intriguing feature is its temperature control
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Features
Oh dear, oh dear
So far, Cabe’s school design review panel hasn’t been too impressed by the Building Schools for the Future programme. Martin Spring looks at what it said about the first batch of schemes and asks Ken Shuttleworth, the chairman of the panel, for tips on getting full marks
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NewsImages: Holder Mathias music centre opens
Albemarle Music Centre for school children opens in Hull as part of regeneration project
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NewsFaithful + Gould green expert on schools - video
Environmental costs expert Sean Lockie, a director at F+G, discuss his firm’s work on lowering the carbon footprint of school buildings
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NewsFAT wins contest to design community library
Fashion Architecture Taste selected to design library in Bentley
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FeaturesCost model update: Small projects
Max Wilkes of Davis Langdon revisits industrial units, primary schools extensions and primary health care centres to investigate how recent changes to legislation, specifications and general price increases have affected building costs
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NewsFit for purpose
Cambridge university’s department of architecture has spent £3m refurbishing its premises and developing a studio building alongside it.
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NewsFirst class honours
Faber Maunsell’s City Campus East for Northumbria University has scooped the new-build project prize at CIBSE’s Low Carbon Awards.
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FeaturesCost model: Laboratories
Laboratories are probably the most demanding buildings that it is possible to build. Here, Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon examines the factors that their designers have to take into account, from the need to attract world-class talent to energy efficiency
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NewsHoare Lea helps bring green angle to Warwick research lab
Warwick Digital Laboratory aims for BREEAM excellence with exposed thermal mass, under floor heating and sedum roof
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NewsBlow to schools as Whitehall design chief steps down
Mukund Patel to leave school building unit, as report unveils plans to cut BSF bid costs by £250m
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NewsColleges for the Colonel
Building Design Partnership has been appointed to design seven universities in Libya.
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NewsSweet Valleys High
Plans for a school in Newport, South Wales, were given the go-ahead this week.
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NewsZaha Hadid reveals Hong Kong design school
Hadid unveils 'Innovation Tower', her first permanent project in Hong Kong
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NewsOh, the humanities
The new humanities building at Queen Mary, University of London has been given planning permission.
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NewsThe Harlem shuffle
Renzo Piano’s $7bn (£3.5bn) expansion of Columbia university was given the green light this week by New York’s department for city planning.
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FeaturesWhat to remember: Education facilities
The growth in construction of education facilities has thrown up a host of design and specification challenges. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg takes a look at what can be done to address them
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NewsNews in pictures: Capita’s wins green school ideas contest
Firm’s Chameleon school wins Welsh School of Architecture award
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FeaturesNature nurtured
Studio E took two 120-year-old plane trees as the starting point for its west London primary school – and as the inspiration for a whole toy cupboard of sustainable features. The upshot is that these could be the first kids ever to love their greens.