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The Portakabin Group, the UK’s leading modular building specialist, has published a new guide to help schools and academies procure new teaching facilities – from self-contained permanent classroom blocks to complete purpose-designed schools. Schools across the UK are facing increased demand for places as a result of changing demographics caused by rising birth rates and levels of immigration. Many have an urgent requirement to expand existing teaching accommodation and others need to upgrade or rebuild…

Stylish, design-led and robust healthcare furniture has been supplied by Bradford-based Knightsbridge Furniture to complete the £42m Kingfisher Court mental health unit in Radlett, Hertfordshire. ‘The facilities at Kingfisher Court are truly world-class and we’re very proud to have delivered our furniture to such a prestigious project,’ says Knightsbridge MD Alan Towns. Kingfisher Court is part of a £100m five-year ‘Transformation Programme’ through which Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is radically redeveloping its…

Designed to make buying banking services easier for the public sector ESPO, the UK’s largest public sector purchasing organisation, has launched a new banking framework to make the procurement of banking services easier for customers in the public sector. The launch of this framework comes at an opportune time for over 100 local authorities following the Co-Operative Bank’s recent announcement that it will no longer be able to provide them with banking services as it…