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精东影视Contractors behind 17 closed Edinburgh schools agree settlement with council
Aecom has been drafted in to inspect Amey鈥檚 work
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CommentAre we creating enough in-depth learning spaces?
Helen Groves says that while universities have great areas where students can work together and interact, they lack spaces to allow quiet immersion in study聽
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FeaturesSchools: Learning to love modular
Offsite construction can offer an answer to England鈥檚 struggling school estate. But manufacturers are battling to banish dated perceptions of what modular means. Jordan Marshall reports
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FeaturesSchool daze: What鈥檚 happening to the government鈥檚 building plan?
Although the government has committed to spending 拢23bn on school building programmes up to 2021, many contractors and consultants are convinced the聽pipeline of work has slowed. Joey Gardiner asks how significant聽a聽recent聽fall in capital spending could be for construction
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精东影视Scape says 400 secondary schools need to be built by 2020
Report finds over 400,000 pupils will be entering the UK academic system over the next three years
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CommentFree schools don't come cheap
The question of whether the government is spending too much on free schools development is far from clear cut
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CommentWhat鈥檚 stopping us building schools using off-site techniques?
Modular schools can be bespoke and beautiful, but to build at the volumes needed to keep up with demand we need to think carefully about our delivery model
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CommentSchool places: Tricky equations
The shortage of school places may have become a familiar headache, but there still seems to be hope within Whitehall
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CommentDesigning schools in batches
Creating 12 schools on a tight budget requires a strategic approach to standardised design and a collaborative use of BIM
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CommentSchools: Hands up if you know the answer
The James Review team has spent months coming up with the solution to schools delivery - and it looks suspiciously like existing body Partnerships for Schools. The government needs to swallow its pride and accept the verdict
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CommentBSF legal battle: learn the lessons
This week鈥檚 court fight over the scrapping of BSF should sound a note of caution to the government over its future school building policy
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CommentIt's been an education: Dispatch from Remodelling Education Spaces event
This week鈥檚 conference was a chance for the industry to discuss ways forward in an uncertain post-election world
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CommentBSF: In defence of Tim Byles
Some government officials look like they may be attempting to pin blame for the latest BSF fiasco on Tim Byles. If they do, they could be making a huge mistake.
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CommentSchools out
Michael Gove鈥檚 attack on BSF has angered the construction industry, but might he have a point?
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Will we see the return of mobile classrooms, or can construction firms find a better solution?
In a chat yesterday it was suggested I should make a note of the rapid increase in the number of babies being born and the implications for construction, or not as the case may be.This chimed with me, as I had recently been told that they will need two more ...
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A removeable feast: how long will schools funding last?
The education sector is one of the areas to have remained buoyant during the recession. Capital funding has increased fourfold since 1997/98, putting it at just over 拢4.1bn. Altogether, the education sector is providing 拢6bn a year for construction through public funding and indirectly through the PFI. These workloads are ...
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Back to schools: building in a recession
Question one. How can we keep spending billions on school building while struggling with the biggest crisis in our public finances since the war? Not easy, is it? Even a grade A* economics student would struggle with this one.Not many of us are putting our hands up and offering ...
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What's new in schools
The 拢45bn 精东影视 Schools for the Future programme proved it鈥檚 weathering the recession this week pretty well this week, with two major schemes reaching financial close.The deals - on the first phase of the 拢2.4bn Birmingham BSF and a 拢500m scheme in Durham 鈥� prove that, despite continuing issues over ...
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