Author Archives: IHBC

IHBC’s new ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s selection for this month, from RICS review to Swindon’s ‘Flying Saucer’

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while the Director’s occasional news listing feature this week offers its members links to updates from … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s next ‘Scoop for the School’ for 2022: Councillors approve ‘transformative’ regeneration of Aberdeen city centre, market and beachfront

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The pedestrianisation of Union Street Central, the creation of a new city market, and the revitalisation of the beach area, with plans for a pier, new green hub, and a state-of-the-art sports area have been approved by Aberdeen City Council, … Continue reading →

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IHBC Signpost: Local Area Guidance, The Heritage Fund’s ‘priority outcome’

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The Heritage Fund offers guidance designed to help people meet its priority outcome: the local area.

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’: Archdaily on ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Archdaily highlighting ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’ alongside our … Continue reading →

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Charity’s doorstep’: Preservation charity shut down after trustees found using funds for personal benefit

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

Trustees at the Manor Building Preservation Trust used the charity’s funds to live in a mansion rent-free, to buy high-end cars and give each other salaries of over £128,000, Civil Society reports via the Charity Commission.

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Gove ‘a bit of a catch’ for housing ministry, says former chief architect  to BD

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

Michael Gove is ‘a bit of a catch’ for the renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the former chief architect has said, as Gove’s early planning decisions suggest ‘beauty remains high on new secretary of state’s agenda’. image: … Continue reading →

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BRE report finds poor housing is costing NHS £1.4bn a year

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

A new BRE report – ‘The Cost of Poor Housing in England’ – quantifies the cost burden to the NHS caused by hazards arising from poor quality homes in England, and reveals that 2.6 million homes in England – 11% … Continue reading →

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DCMS/AHRC: Research captures and enhances value of UK culture and heritage

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will support a new study to measure the value of UK culture and heritage.

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Trust in local government stayed strong during pandemic, researchers find

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The public placed more trust in local authorities than national government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the findings of a new survey reported by Local Gov. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton

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AHF publishes Annual Review 2020/21

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) Annual Review details some of its work this year delivering strategic objectives while providing an insight into a number of AHF supported projects across the UK.

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When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species

Posted on 14/12/2021 by IHBC

The Colosseum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, and thus one of the most popular tourist attractions in all of Europe. But the nature of its appeal to its many visitors has changed over the centuries. … Continue reading →

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IHBC Gus Astley Student Award judge: Ian Morrison OBE (HE Exec & past CEO AHF) to select winner of £500 prize (& IHBC 2022 Aberdeen School’s first delegate)!

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

Ian Morrison OBE, Director of Policy and Evidence on the Executive Team at Historic England (HE) and past CEO of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), will be our guest judge for the 2021 IHBC Gus Astley Student Award, with winners … Continue reading →

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IHBC says: ‘Please check your contact details, for the Yearbook and more, by 17/12’

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The IHBC is calling on all members to check and update the contact details we hold, before 17/12.

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IHBC Practice signpost: Retrofitting a pre-1919 Scottish Housing Association tenement in a 21st century revamp

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

A ‘pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus standards’, by Southside Housing Association in Glasgow, is reported on by Scottish Construction Now. image for illustration purposes only – Thomas Nugent / Dudley Drive https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Dudley_Drive_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580164.jpg

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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £115K+ works this week: DC seeks tenders re. conservation skills, closing 17/12, valued £15K

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from this week is the call from … Continue reading →

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversy as solar panels are approved for Edinburgh Castle

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

A row has escalated at Edinburgh Castle between the castle’s operators and city residents after heritage bosses won a battle to install solar panels on Edinburgh Castle in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, reports The Herald Scotland. image: … Continue reading →

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Pilot scheme on ‘inclusive ways to empower’ communities across England and Scotland: £125K funding, closing 3 Jan 2022!

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

‘Outreach to Ownership’, an cross-border research pilot funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and run by Historic England (HE) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is seeking applications by 3 January.

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Glos. ‘strikingly contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse’ named RIBA House of the Year

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

House on the Hill, ‘a strikingly contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire’, designed by Alison Brooks Architects, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2021.

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CIAT response to the architects’ regulation review:  Calls for more collaboration, and review of protection of title etc.

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) has responded on the review of the regulation of architects, calling for  collaboration and a review of the protection of the title architect.

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Sustainable Futures Survey: For any ‘designer, specifier, contractor or manufacturer’

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The Sustainable Futures Survey from National Building Specification (NBS) seeking views on sustainability from any designer, specifier, contractor or manufacturer. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0

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Towns Fund monitoring and evaluation strategy

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have set out their approach to monitoring and evaluating the Towns Fund. image: Open Government Licence v3.0

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CCT launches ‘Netflix for people who love churches’, targetting membership through streaming

Posted on 10/12/2021 by IHBC

The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) has launched CCTdigital.com, a new online streaming platform where people will be able to access films about church heritage, whilst helping to care for the nation’s historic churches in the process, Netflix-style!

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IHBC’s 2021 Yearbook : 5000+ key players learn more about the IHBC, introduced by HE’s Duncan Wilson OBE

Posted on 07/12/2021 by IHBC

Some 5000 copies of the IHBC’s 2021 Yearbook have been distributed to IHBC members and relevant sector leads, highlighting the 2021 Brighton School theme, with a bounty of regular and dedicated features from HESPR and Recognised Courses listings to IHBC … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ from IHBC’s 2022 School: Aberdeen Art Gallery named Scotland’s building of the year’

Posted on 07/12/2021 by IHBC

IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features the IHBC doubling up with the ‘News from IHBC’s 2022 … Continue reading →

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IHBC features ‘Heritage form the Charity doorstep’! EH- pandemic ‘knocked us off course’ but now we are ‘stronger and wiser’

Posted on 07/12/2021 by IHBC

Lockdowns and other restrictions mean that English Heritage (EH) missed its income target by over £10m, but the charity is optimistic about the future, reports Civil Society.

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