Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

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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 pbctoday on ‘Retrofitting for energy efficiency: PAS 2035’.

The Evening Express reports on the mystery of a missing granite staircase has rocked Aberdeen, with a possible police investigation being launched into how dozens of precious stone slabs ended up on the property of a high profile businessman.

Northern Ireland has 2,500 churches and chapels – more per head than anywhere else in the United Kingdom, and the recent National Churches Trust update highlights include partnership with the IHBC and our national Branch in the Northern Ireland Places … Continue reading →

Following calls from participating courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award is now 31 August, so relevant coursework submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate – from 2020 OR 2021 may be submitted online … Continue reading →

Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has published a list of 120 subjects it needs articles written about, all good starting points for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) … Continue reading →

IHBC’s support for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) includes our online registration for anyone – or any organisation – seeking our free recognition service and listing for CPD providers.

The unique nature of Southend’s ‘second High Street’, Hamlet Court Road, is set to be recognised with conservation area status, reports The Echo.

The IHBC has welcomed the line-up for the 2021 Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival, just announced by The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum.

IHBC members, colleagues and client bodies can now find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our new map-based facility.  image: Google Maps

‘Statements of Community Involvement in England: a baseline review and future opportunities’ is the subject of an interim report from the University of Reading and Civic Voice, with the final report scheduled for September 2021.

On International Women in Engineering day, the Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) asked if social media break down the gender divide for female apprentices?

IHBC’s support for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) includes our online registration for anyone – or any organisation – seeking our free recognition service and listing for CPD providers.

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 the RIBA blog on ‘Healthy placemaking after COVID-19’.

Councillors have approved plans to add three floors with 141 rooms to the Radisson Blu hotel in Glasgow, reports Scottish Construction Now.

James Mackintosh Architects is the latest company to be accepted on to the IHBC conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ listing, joining 50 other heritage businesses to benefit from IHBC’s quality assurance.

One of the best ways to learn is to explain, as any teacher knows, and creating an article on your area of practice for Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry … Continue reading →

Savills latest research, explores the different targets in place across the UK, and considers whether national ambition is translating to local action, while noting that ‘Wales could provide a useful model to follow’. image: for illustration purposes only – Open … Continue reading →

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

Burglars who steal from churches, museums or galleries to get tougher sentence as new rules were announced yesterday from the Sentencing Council so those who steal valuables from buildings can expect to face prison more often, reported the Mail Online … Continue reading →

THE National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is, according to its chief executive Philip Long, ‘very much back in business’, writes The National.

You can now review all 34 Properties Newly Inscribed by UNESCO for 2020/21, from Peru’s Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex to the The Great Spa Towns of Europe (including Bath and Baden-Baden).

The new issue of the IHBC’s regular and free CPD Circular has been posted, offering members and our networks accessible and current information on learning opportunities and Continuing Professional Development (CPD), with free postings for anyone holding relevant events too!

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Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has featured on its Newsletter Laura Alvarez (Senior Principal Urban Design and Conservation Officer at Nottingham City Council) on ‘Understanding Context’, … Continue reading →