Category Archives: IHBC NewsBlog

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features this … Continue reading →

A 57-YEAR-OLD has been ordered to pay over £3,000 following unauthorised work on a listed building (LB) in Tetbury, reports The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard:

The latest issue (no. 167) of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, boasting a tight focus on Urban Design, with a distinctly  international take.

The IHBC has welcomed the high profile congratulations offered by one of Scotland’s lead practices –  Page\Park – on the conservation accreditation by the IHBC of staff member Natalia Burakowska.

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’, featuring this week an HS2 independent design panel double-up, as the scaled-back Euston … Continue reading →

Peter Hibberd (past chair of JCT – formerly The Joint Contracts Tribunal) – has explored how its resources support the objectives of the Construction Playbook Government Guidance (Guidance) on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes. image: Open Government … Continue reading →

The IHBC has posted working draft minutes of the recent Council meeting – the first under our new Articles – to help promote debate and input on the question raised by the IHBC President – and new IHBC Council Chair: … Continue reading →

The IHBC has commenced its support sessions for School MarketPlace stallholders and prospective stallholders, with the next free and open session on 27 April (details on request, limited spaces).

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features this … Continue reading →

Steven Tolson, past Trustee of BEFS and former chair of the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Housing’s sub-group, has shared his thoughts on the publication of the final vision for Scotland’s ‘Housing to 2040’. image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-tolson-a263289/?originalSubdomain=uk

The IHBC has commenced its support sessions for School MarketPlace stallholders and prospective stallholders, with the next free and open session on 27 April (details on request, limited spaces).

The IHBC has responded to government Consultation on changes to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) and Part F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations, including welcoming the ‘emphasis on taking professional conservation advice’.

More than two decades on from the release of the influential Egan Report, Nathan Doughty, CEO of Asite, reflects on the progress the construction industry has made with five key drivers of change. image: for illustration purposes only

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’, with ArchDaily reporting on ‘Evolution of the House Plan in Europe: from the … Continue reading →

Plans to replace a historic Hampshire hotel – boasting a facade remodelled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – with more than 70 homes, have finally been submitted to the New Forest National Park Authority (NPA) – a year after the … Continue reading →

Europe’s premiere urban ‘planner for people’, Jan Gehl, will anchor the morning session of the IHBC’s 2021 Day School on 18 June, offering insights into how – and why – he evolved his unique brand of planning for people.

The IHBC has commenced its support sessions for School MarketPlace stallholders and prospective stallholders, with the next free and open session on 27 April (details on request, limited spaces).

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features this … Continue reading →

Carlton Tavern is to re-open; the only building on its block to survive Nazi blitz, which was ordered rebuilt ‘brick-by-brick’ after it was illegally knocked down by an Israeli development company, The Times of Israel reports.

The annual Building Conservation Directory is a major source for skilled IHBC members seeking support for their most essential Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and the most recent issue will have reached those signed up to it!

The International Day for Monuments and Sites – also known as World Heritage Day  – is held on 18 April each year, with an annual theme that  for 2021 is; ‘Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures’.

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’, with Building reporting that: ‘Nearly one third of firms have lost jobs because … Continue reading →

Donovan Rypkema – the lead heritage economist in the US – will anchor the afternoon session of the IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School, on June 18, while his business networks look at taking 3 stalls at the MarketPlace, recognising the ‘innovative … Continue reading →

On behalf of the IHBC, Chair David McDonald has offered sympathies on the sudden passing of Peter Ainsworth, ‘a passionate advocate for heritage’.

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features this … Continue reading →