Nottingham College’s £58m campus builder announced May 1, 2018 Wates have won the race to build the £58m flagship campus for Nottingham College as part of wider plans to completely overhaul the southern area of the City. The site, located next to the city’s Broadmarsh shopping centre and close to the train station, is set to be transformed into the six-storey City Hub. We’ll […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
NHS Five Year Forward View discussed at conference May 1, 2018 The Government’s new health public private vehicle (PPP) – Project Phoenix – is unlikely to be launched until this time next year, a leading healthcare investor has predicted. Simon Gould, Head of Development at the Assura REIT (real estate investment trust) told our Healthcare Estates Development Forum that the sector is still waiting for details. […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Consultation begins on £75m Belfast office redevelopment May 1, 2018 Consultation is set to begin on a £75m office redevelopment plan being led by Belfast City Council. The public have now been invited to give their views on the development, which will see the conversion of a former news office into new and improved office and commercial space. The development in one of many happening […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Multimillion pound deal reached for Lincoln High Street development May 1, 2018 The City of Lincoln is set to see a boost in student accommodation numbers, as a deal is struck to bring 301-bedrooms to a Lincoln High Street site. The development, which will be based alongside the £25m ongoing project which will see new restaurants, shops and a gym, is now set to be completed by […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Homes on car parks – a solution for NHS key worker housing May 1, 2018 Building over hospital surface car parks could both help to cure the NHS’s key worker crisis and remedy its shortage of move on accommodation, a Stirling prize shortlisted architect told our Healthcare Estates Development Forum. Bill Dunster, whose Bedzed housing development in Sutton was on the shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects prize […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Proptech within healthcare May 1, 2018 The government has been insufficiently hard-line about mandating BIM on publicly funded construction projects, the Proptech Session heard at our Healthcare Estates Development Forum. Jason Whittall, Director of One Creative Environments, said that failure to use BIM was treated less seriously than not following the BREEAM eco building standard. Whittall said the mandate had also […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
NHS providers ‘should work with private finance initiative consortia’ May 1, 2018 NHS Providers should work with private finance initiative (PFI) consortia to cut their energy use, our Healthcare Estates Development Forum heard. Peter Sellars, Chair of the Carbon & Energy Fund, told the event the NHS had ‘missed a trick’ during the 1990s heyday of PFI by not providing contractors with incentives to deliver more energy […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Health tax isn’t a cure for the NHS May 1, 2018 Our Healthcare Estates Development Forum has heard that moves to raise a tax specifically to pay for the NHS could be seen as a ‘trick’. Leading health economist and Head of Health and Welfare at the Institute of Economic Affairs Thinktank Dr Kristian Niemietz,, said that so called hypothecated taxes could get swallowed up into […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
University of Cambridge breaks into housing delivery ‘big league’ Apr 30, 2018 The University of Cambridge is on track to be one of the major housing developers in the south of England this year, our Cambridge Universities Development Plans Conference has heard. Heather Topel, Project Director of the university’s North-West Cambridge development, told the event that 150 homes in the scheme’s first phase have already been built, […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
Modular homes – the future of the British construction industry? Apr 30, 2018 Last week the Government called for a more innovative approach to solving Britain’s housing shortage and is backing modern methods of construction, such as modular homes, to speed up housing delivery. The Government is calling on councils to set their own design quality standards and use virtual reality technology to win round communities and end […] Posted by: Nathan Spencer Read more
