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

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