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- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 19/12/2025
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6.00pm AGM 19/12/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 19/12/2025
- IHBC’s Research Signpost from HE & EH: ‘Pathways Into Heritage Construction: A Strategic View/Models and Case Studies’ 19/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £101K+ of weekly works: Trust seeks fire engineer for GII* project to 15/01 19/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (riverside) doorstep’: Historic rail bridge collapses into River Spey 19/12/2025
- UK Government urged to step up maintenance to safeguard ageing infrastructure: Royal Academy of Engineering 19/12/2025
- Landmark Planning and Infrastructure Bill becomes law 19/12/2025
- England’s NPPF update: New consultation on proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system, to 10/03 19/12/2025
- AHRC PhD studentships on ‘barriers to creating healthier places’ 19/12/2025
- £2.9m heritage investment for Waterfront regeneration 19/12/2025
- Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey for Archaeology 19/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Costa Carras European Citizens Awards for the Safeguard of Endangered Heritage 2026, entries open to 16/01/2026 19/12/2025
- IHBC welcome SAHGB’s new Colvin Special Award 2025, celebrating editors of The Pevsner Architectural Guides 16/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 16/12/2025
- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 16/12/2025
- IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter 16/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: How to get started in sharing knowledge and expertise on Designing Buildings 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hotspur Press will rise from the ashes as developers issue promise for fire-ravaged mill 16/12/2025
- Videogame to help protect Nottingham Cathedral and other heritage buildings: ‘Pugin’s Revival’ despite ‘structural ‘monsters’’ 16/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse Spotlight: Operational use of Artificial Intelligence 16/12/2025
- Public appointment: Members appointed to Historic Environment Scotland 16/12/2025
- HHBT to continue its work in the Highlands as part of SHBT 16/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Environmental Audit Committee report on sustainable housing growth 16/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’– WMF & EH receive grant for next phase of Coastal Connections Programme 16/12/2025
Daily Archives: 29/10/2016
IHBC: Reaching out to new audiences in conservation… from TRADA’s ‘Heritage Buildings’ in Manchester to ‘Risk and resilience’ in Bucharest
IHBC volunteers, officers and staff make huge efforts to reach out to new audiences for conservation, but next week’s travels by IHBC director Sean O’Reilly are especially wide as he chairs a session of the IHBC CPD recognised conference on … Continue reading
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IHBC’s FREE ‘Conservation Course Connection Day’ last chance – 9 Nov, Birmingham – one student representative per course…
If your conservation-related course or programme allows for it, do make sure it is represented at the IHBC’s free 4th ‘Conservation Course Connection Day’ by checking with your course director or the IHBC, and if you can’t make it along … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Top HESPR tender pick of the week’: Argyll and Bute Council’s evidence-based promotion of the thermal efficiency of Rothesay’s traditional timber windows
The IHBC’s commercial conservation services listing, HESPR – the Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition scheme – offers weekly HESPR Bulletins with tender opportunities, and the Director’s top pick for IHBC members this week features Argyll and Bute Council’s call for … Continue reading
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Paul Morrell to advise in major review of industrial training boards
Robert Halfon, England’s Minister of State for Apprenticeships and Skills, has announced that Paul Morrell, the former government construction advisor, has agreed to use his expertise in helping determine the future shape of industrial training boards. The announcement follows the … Continue reading
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Victorian sea fort sale: Under £1 million
One of four forts ordered to be built by Prime Minister Henry John Temple, Third Viscount Palmerston, in 1860, following concerns over the strength of the French Navy, is up for auction for £875,000. The fort, which sits four miles … Continue reading
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Elain Harwood’s ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-75’ wins SAHGB’s Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) has awarded the 2016 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion to Elain Harwood of Historic England for her ‘Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945-75’, described by publishers Yale as ‘the first major … Continue reading
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HE’s Major Parish Churches research and resources published
Historic England (HE) has published a suite of research and resources on ‘Major Parish Churches’, ‘highly significant buildings that provide functions and services to local and regional communities in addition to parish ministry’. Historic England writes: The findings of the … Continue reading
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Scotland’s Scottish Redundant Churches Trust (SRCT) seeks new board members
The Scottish Redundant Churches Trust (SRCT) seeks new trustees, ‘to play a vital role in the transition of the SRCT to a more entrepreneurial and financially resilient organisation’. SRCT writes: We are looking for dynamic new trustees to join the … Continue reading
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Heathrow chosen as site of new runway
The UK Government has chosen Heathrow as the site for airport expansion. View the full press release and more information about the proposals
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National Grid consultation: ‘Undergrounding’ cables plans for National Park
The National Grid has revealed plans to rationalise the cabling within the Lake District National Park and the Hadrian’s Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site, including removal of surplus pylons and undergrounding other supplies; the public consultation on these proposals starts … Continue reading
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GII listing for rare reception house associated with cholera outbreak
A property which was once used as a site to store the bodies of victims of the cholera epidemic in London has been granted Grade II listing, as a rare example of its type. Historic England writes: A 19th Century … Continue reading
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