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As an Adjudicator Nominating Body (ANB) RICS has a duty to ensure its panel of adjudicators can handle real li...
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Homes throughout the UK may be at risk from rising damp despite being equipped with chemical damp-proof course...
March 12, 2019
The development of a new garden city on former MOD land at Bicester, Oxfordshire, is including a large number ...
March 12, 2019
The development of a new garden city on former MOD land at Bicester, Oxfordshire, is including a large number ...
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From early years, primary and secondary, to further and higher education facilities, every learning establishm...
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Toby Buckley, Managing Director of REL Building Services, discusses the construction of a new primary school i...
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It’s not just businesses that are expected to have an awareness of their carbon footprint – schools are increa...
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In every walk of life, it stands to reason that you get what you pay for. Quality comes at a price and it’s ha...
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Safety in schools and education facilities is a highly emotive subject and one that is never far from the mind...
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Phil Chell of Sika Liquid Plastics discusses opportunities and challenges in building improvement funding in t...
Read moreWhen the School of Design at the University of Leeds wanted vibrant flooring for its Clothworkers Building South, it brought in ar…
University campus buildings and student accommodation facilities are complex infrastructures and, with so many security requiremen…
An undulating ribbon of Corian forms the high-impact first impression of the magnificent new Menai Science Park (M-SParc) by Faulk…
The sharp increase in severe weather events such as droughts, storms and flash floods over the past decade has emphasised the need…
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The first fleet of mobile decontamination units is creating significant efficiencies for endoscopy departments...
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Scott Leeder, Commercial Director at VELUX Modular Skylights, looks at the benefits of optimising the levels o...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolutionise water controls in health and care services. Marcus Judg...
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Helen Revitt, Regional Director and Health Sector Lead at architecture and building consultancy AHR, explains ...
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At first glance, the c.£2.8m Rathview Mental Health Facility, Omagh, is not what you would expect. In fact, it...
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Johnstone’s Trade recently worked with the Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and architect firm Hunters t...
Read moreThe new dedicated Breast Unit at Salisbury District Hospital has patient experience at its very core. A truly collaborative approa…
Tight deadlines, space limitations and stringent hygiene requirements – these are just a few of the many obstacles contractors mus…
Back in 2010, a Government greenhouse gas emissions survey of the public estate found the worst offenders included many of the cou…
Sean Conlon from Conlon Construction discusses the design and construction of the BREEAM-rated ‘Excellent’ One Hatfield Hospital i…
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The leisure sector may be thriving, but it is also facing a number of difficulties. Sam Spencer, Leisure Exper...
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A £2m masterplan for the regeneration of Brooklands Park in Worthing, West Sussex, has begun with the renovati...
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Leisure centres are a hive of activity, with a vast range of visitors and staff requiring different levels of ...
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Createability has finished work on a three-phase £8.5m complete redevelopment of Bath Sports and Leisure Centr...
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Slough Borough Council is investing more than £62m in regenerating leisure facilities across the borough wit...
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A swimming pool is at the forefront of a renewable energy revolution which creates heat from wastewater. ...
Read moreAs local authorities face increasing pressure to make efficiency savings, leisure centres, with their high and constant demand for…
A new £28m leisure centre in Romford is one of only a few in the UK to feature a floating ice rink above a competition swimming po…
A modern yet sympathetic design is the hallmark of the £25m new High Wycombe Leisure Centre featuring a Proteus copper-clad entran…
Preventing the growth of Legionella is extremely important, especially in a leisure centre where so many water systems are in plac…
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As politicians increasingly look to local authorities to help build the affordable homes Britain needs, Bjorn ...
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Damp and mould are constant, and as of yet, unanswered threats to the UK’s social housing stock. Byron Dixon O...
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With new and advanced burglary methods, it’s important that local authorities and social housing landlords are...
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Recent news has revealed that the Government has pledged to invest £2bn in building social housing properties ...
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What’s driving change in social housing design and build? Are the factors different now than they were 10 year...
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Dan Bourke, Social Housing Regional Manager at EnviroVent, looks at a recent study of mould involving four soc...
Read moreDave Playfoot, Applications Manager from heating, cooling and plumbing specialist, Uponor, discusses the energy efficiency and man…
Centrepoint has recently published a report on youth homelessness in the UK which suggests that there is a much higher level of un…
There are six major challenges faced by today’s social landlords that mean that the pressure to provide accessible housing will on…
Profile 22 has supplied its Optima Casement solution to 62 social housing properties in Rusholme, Manchester, for Arawak Walton Ho…
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Managing budgets and making the right maintenance and housing improvement decisions at the righ...
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A contractor is injured after falling off a scaffold. In legal terms, who is responsible? Adria...
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