Forward Features 2025
In each edition we cover the below topics:
- Environmental: Sustainability, carbon reduction, and energy efficiency news, features, insight, and case studies
- Projects: The latest building projects in health and social care
- Finance: Key drivers behind the health and care property investment markets and procurement insight
- Property news: The latest property deals
- Market insight: An overview of the key issues impacting the property sector (construction figures, reports, industry comment etc)
- Design and build: Best practice approaches to the design and construction of the health and social care estate
- Estates and Facilities: The latest issues impacting estates and facilities management practices in health and care settings
- Products: Focus on building products which are helping to boost health and social care environments
- People: Movers and shakers within health and social care
Up-coming features include:
January
- Modern Methods of Construction – Exploring the role of offsite construction (modular and mobile) on delivering the next generation of healthcare facilities
- Fire safety – Looking at fire safety within health and care settings and the products and services available to support estates managers
- Infection control – what have the health and care sectors learned from the COVID outbreak and how has these driven improvements in cleaning regimes
March
- Infrastructure procurement – Looking at how the UK is funding new and improved health and social care facilities
- The NHS carbon net zero challenge – looking at what the sector has achieved and what it needs to focus on now
May
- Mental health design – The latest approaches to the design of dedicated mental health facilities in the UK and overseas
- Primary care facilities – How is the UK transforming the primary care property market to bring premises up to modern standards
July
- Property investment in health and social care – What are investors and financers looking for and how are they supporting operators to deliver improved estates
- Smart hospitals – How technology is vital to creating futureproofed health and care facilities
September
- Lighting – The importance of good-quality, sustainable lighting in health and care settings
- Construction products drive sustainability goals – How construction product choice can help to meet carbon reduction/sustainability goals
November
- Arts in Health – How artwork can help to enhance the patient and staff environment and support key building design issues such as wayfinding