Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

[slideshow_deploy id=’31518′]The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) – the UK’s professional body for built and historic environment conservation – opens its accessible and virtual IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+ to the COP26 global network from 31 October, offering advice and learning … Continue reading →

Following the IHBC’s second Council under its new constitution Mike Brown, IHBC President and Chair of the IHBC’s second Council meeting, extended his thanks to all contributors while renewing a call to members to help shape the Institute’s forward planning, … Continue reading →

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) – the UK’s professional body for built and historic environment conservation – launches our COP26 ‘Climate and Conservation’ Podcasts via the virtual IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ on 1 November.

The IHBC offers free one-year, first-timer ‘taster’ memberships to students on IHBC Recognised Conservation Courses so simply REGISTER ONLINE HERE (T&C apply).

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 →

Transformed Leeds mill shows how historic Yorkshire buildings can be turned into ‘powerhouses for growth’- Laurie Magnus, Chairman of Historic England, says the North’s historic places are not just relics from the past. The North of England is like nowhere … Continue reading →

The 2021 Brighton School delegate survey has been published, with an impressive showing of ‘good to excellent’ from delegates across key measures: 98.2% approving the content, 83.64%.the CPD support, and c.93% the Friday programme.

The IHBC has posted online its updated Communications and Outreach Strategy, for 2021-24, with a foreword by IHBC Chair David McDonald.

The 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 Dezeen on a RIBA report on ‘Decarbonising the built … Continue reading →

An urban explorer has revealed pictures of a fascinating, abandoned cottage on the ‘outskirts of Wales’ and dubbed the ‘American Cottage’, writes North Wales Live.

New guidance is now out for volunteers on the virtual (Zoom) IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’, so you can support ‘conservation as a climate solution’ across the global COP26 network, because ‘Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet’.

The IHBC has submitted its response on the ‘Conservation Principles – Guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment in Northern Ireland’.

Just discovered the IHBC, or need to join up fast, or even decided to get your accreditation going: just click on the our easy access Homepage ‘Join’ panel and find or Quick Links to getting your career as a conservation … Continue reading →

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 a charity for an architect for … Continue reading →

Works to improve part of Ormskirk’s historic Wheatsheaf Walk are now complete, providing an improved public square for residents, businesses and visitors.

To help employers and practitioners, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the diverse career opportunities advertised in our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, and recent posts range from Conservation Architects (x2) and Officers (x6+) to Net Zero, Listing and more, … Continue reading →

The new issue of the IHBC’s journal, Context No. 169, explores conservation led by the people, in particular communities’ historic infrastructure such as amenity societies, the contributions of which ‘will be more important than ever…  as … rather than waiting, … Continue reading →

Volunteer at the virtual IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ and support IHBC and our partners’ advice, insights and learning across the global COP26 network, because ‘Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet’, just contact our COP26 conservation #IHBCHelpdesk.

URBACT cities and experts investigate how to unlock the potential of public procurement to drive gender equality.

The 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 Dezeen on the ‘Conference of Trees’ at COP26.

Plans to build a tunnel or bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland have been scrapped, reports The Irish News.

All IHBC members IHBC should have received a personal email invitation from IHBC President Mike Brown to attend the forthcoming virtual meeting of IHBC’s new Council, at 1.30pm on Wednesday 13 October.

Volunteer at the virtual IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ and support IHBC and our partners’ advice, insights and learning across the global COP26 network, because ‘Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet’, just contact our COP26 conservation #IHBCHelpdesk.

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 →

A decades-spanning legal battle over a Constantin Brancusi sculpture that has long been a beloved fixture of Paris’s Montparnasse Cemetery has ended in a win for the French state reports Art News.