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NewsLSE's New Student Centre achieves BREEAM Outstanding
LSE鈥檚 New Student Centre is the 17th building worldwide to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating
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NewsExclusive: 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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NewsCabe backs Atkins鈥� standardised school design
Design review verdict offers boost to controversial standardisation agenda
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NewsLibya plans 'at least' seven new hospitals
UKTI reveals country investigating PPP models to finance hospital buildings programme
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NewsDesign watchdog warns over 'bargain basement' schools
Design Council Cabe鈥檚 director criticises government moves to relax space and sustainability standards
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NewsStoke shortlists four for 拢108m housing PFI
Balfour Beatty, Lovell Partnership, and Morgan Sindall among contenders for sheltered housing programme
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NewsConran to design 拢60m Lambeth school redevelopment
Architect Conran + Partners named for project to convert Lilian Baylis School and develop 220 homes
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CommentEco standards in schools are slipping
Michael Gove鈥檚 free schools were meant to rip through red tape. But it鈥檚 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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NewsFirms slam vocational qualification downgrade
Training heads say downgrading of qualifications may undermine raft of new technical colleges
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FeaturesRedeveloping Bart's and Royal London hospitals
It was tempting to hang a 鈥榙o not resuscitate鈥� sign on two dingy, barely accessible London hospitals, but Skanska鈥檚 redevelopment of the sites has made them functional again - which should perk up medical staff and patients alike
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News拢550m Qatar win boosts EC Harris
Project will 鈥榖enefit the firm in targeting more health work鈥�, says global account leader
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NewsMore delays hit flagship 拢2bn schools programme
Ministers push back contracts on Priority Schools 黑洞社区 Programme, delaying construction till 2013
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NewsGove approves reduction in school sizes
Fears that reduction in space standards for new schools of up to 15% could 鈥榮queeze鈥� classroom sizes
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NewsSelling unused NHS estate could reap 拢1bn
The NHS is sitting on underused estate equivalent to the entire footprint of Sainsbury鈥檚 UK stores, report finds
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NewsBoots 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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NewsLaing O'Rourke wins 拢288m Alder Hey contract
Contractor successful bidder for new Merseyside hospital deal
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FeaturesFrom 1900 to 2012: Finishing the University of Birmingham
Aston Webb鈥檚 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. 黑洞社区 reports
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FeaturesThe 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. 黑洞社区 examined Bradford鈥檚 Sustainability and Enterprise Centre to find out its secret
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FeaturesCost 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