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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: 07/12/2016
IHBC welcomes final data sets for Heritage Counts 2016: Featuring heritage branding
The IHBC has welcomed the release of England’s new suite of heritage indicators by Historic England, the final part of its Heritage Counts programme for 2016, with the theme for this year focussing on heritage branding of places.
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IHBC consultation response: Managing Heritage Assets – A Guide for Local Government
Historic England consulted on this document with a selected group of stakeholders, including the IHBC, with the IHBC Consultation Panel findings including that the document should refer to BS 7913: 2013 and better reflect the English Heritage advice on Disposal … Continue reading
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IHBC Context CPD boost: Keeping up the falling down – on Wimpole and how to conserve a structure designed as a ruin
The construction of Wimpole Gothic Tower was overseen by James Essex and Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, but its restoration raised the question of how to conserve a structure designed as a ruin, says Karen Teideman-Barrett in her recent article in IHBC’s … Continue reading
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Are you ‘wiki-interested’ in the best cinema architecture in the UK? Let IHBC know… and DBW too!
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the IHBC’s open platform for our Conservation Wiki, has highlighted some of the best examples of cinema architecture in the UK, but do any others deserve to be on the list?
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Empty Homes: Government should place greater priority on tackling empty homes
The Empty Homes charity has found that 83% of British adults believe the Government should place a higher priority on tackling empty homes, an increase from 78% from two years ago.
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CLG Committee: Park management and funding models examined
The Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee has examined innovative management and funding models for parks.
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Consultation: Amending the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) – closing 27 Jan.
A government consultation proposes changes to how Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) assesses the energy performance of homes (closing date 27 January 2017).
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Building retrofit is only part of a low carbon solution
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) says improving thermal efficiency is important, but not as much as decarbonising the supply of energy to buildings.
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HHA: Repair costs may close 70 stately homes
Up to 70 of Britain’s stately homes could be closed to the public in the next five years because of escalating repair costs the Historic Houses Association (HHA) says, according to the Telegraph.
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Sir Robert McAlpine to revamp Big Ben
The Special Projects Division of Sir Robert McAlpine has secured a £3.5m contract for essential works to conserve the iconic Big Ben bell, clock and Elizabeth Tower in London, according to The New Civil Engineer.
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