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- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 23/12/2025
- 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 6pm AGM 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Chris Wood on ‘A code of practice for slate and stone roofing’ 23/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 23/12/2025
- IHBC’s Research signpost: ‘… synergy… of historic building retrofit and the heritage of traditional building craft practices…’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.1: DB with its ‘Designing Buildings Christmas verse’ 23/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’ No.2: NCE on ‘The dilemma of industrial heritage’… 23/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (pub) doorstep’: The 12 Pubs of Christmas – a seasonal Blog from Historic England 23/12/2025
- Government plans ‘Single Construction Regulator’ to ensure standards across sector, with consultation open to 20/03 23/12/2025
- HES: Troubled body told to address ‘unacceptable’ governance by Audit Scotland 23/12/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments 23/12/2025
- AHRC PhD studentships on ‘barriers to creating healthier places’ 23/12/2025
- John McAslan + Partners: ‘…transformative alternative vision for Liverpool Street Station…’ 23/12/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 23/12/2025
- Heritage Trust North West takes on Baguley Hall 23/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: NTHP sues to stop White House Ballroom works for violating Constitutional property clause & absent Congress authorisation 23/12/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 31/05/2017
Spread the word on IHBC and Infrastructure – ‘Discover heritage values and fortunes in bus depots, railway stations, roads, canals etc.’ –Manchester, 22-24 June
Discover more about some of the most challenging heritage resources of our time – the infrastructure of transport – at the IHBC’s 2017 Manchester conference, 22-24 June, and let your colleagues and networks know too!
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IHBC Gus Astley Student Award 2017 – open for entries!
IHBC Gus Astley Student Award 2017 open for submissions: Showcase your course work by 31 July – winners at Belfast School in 2018
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Wales FREE retrofit training opportunities: 5/6 July & Sept – with free ‘Retrofit’ Contexts too
The Environment Study Centre have teamed up with CITB, Edwards Hart Consultants, Cadw and the Construction Wales Innovation Centre (CWIC) to deliver two fee-free two-day retrofit courses that provide a qualification in the energy efficiency and retrofit of traditional buildings, … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD boost: Conserving Zanzibar’s WHS ‘Stone Town’ – BBC feature… pro-active progress, in pictures
Situated off the coast of Tanzania, Zanzibar features many examples of Swahili architecture, but after years of neglect many of the buildings in its World Heritage Site (WHS) ‘Stone Town’ are crumbling, so a BBC picture-feature highlights the efforts and … Continue reading
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CPRE dismisses local plan consultation as ‘developer’s charter’
The Campaign to Protect of Rural England (CPRE) has attacked the joint local plan process in the South Hams, which it has condemned as a ‘developer’s charter’.
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New edition of Good Councillor’s Guide to Neighbourhood Planning from Locality
A new edition of a guide offering local councillors tips on how to plan for their neighbourhoods has been launched by the National Association of Local Councils (NALC) and Locality, a national network of community organisations in England.
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Weald and Downland Living Museum unveils £6m development
Weald and Downland’s new funded facilities are now open to the public after some ten years of planning and development, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) investment.
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Considerate Constructors Scheme launched in Ireland
The Considerate Constructors Scheme – the organization established to improve the image of the construction industry – is now international, having launched its first registered site in Ireland.
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Cities can ‘green up’ with hedges to reduce air pollution impacts on residents as well as buildings
The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built-up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.
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