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By Jordan Marshall2021-03-05T06:00:00+00:00 As primaries and secondaries prepare to go back on Monday, government is told to invest in mechanical ventilation The Building Engineering Services Association has warned that opening windows will not be enough to protect schools from coronavirus transmission when they reopen next week. Schools, which across the country have been closed to most students since the start of the year, are set to reopen from Monday in England as the first step in the government’s plan to get the nation out of lockdown. Schools such as this one in north London have o...

Rethinking Design series: Hospitals Hospital building programmes are in the spotlight like never before. The delivery of the Nightingale hospitals to provide emergency relief care during the first weeks of the coronavirus crisis demonstrated the pace at which health facilities could be built – and proved that the UK construction sector has the capability to deliver these types of healthcare facilities on demand. Add to this a government programme to build 40 hospitals within the next decade, as well as the implications of the pandemic on the physical makeup of hospital buildings, and it is ...