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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: 03/04/2018
IHBC’s Taste of the 2018 School: A Titanic update from Belfast and EYCH 2018 – Great Light and Titanic Walkway opened with EYCH NI launch
Belfast, the setting of the IHBC 2018 School on 21-23 June, has seen its offerings as a maritime heritage destination given a major boost as two iconic attractions – the Great Light and Titanic Walkway – officially opened to the … Continue reading
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Promote your business, service or operations at the IHBC Annual School – opportunities range from leaflet distribution and exhibition space to becoming a sponsor!
Looking for work? Book your promotional opportunities at the IHBC’s 2018 School: Belfast 21-23 June – #Europeforculture
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Spalding’s iconic Water Tower restored with 180 tonnes of scaffold and 10,000 litres of paint
Spalding, Lincolnshire, has had its iconic Chatterton Water Tower restored, a cubic structure standing 30m tall and 29m wide – visible for miles around – and officially opened in 1955 by The Marquess of Exeter, has been restored. image Barhale … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the (tourists’) doorstep’: Scotland’s visitor attractions out-perform for sixth year running, while the British Museum tops list for 11th year
The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) visitor figures for 2017 always highlight the role of heritage in this key economic indicator, and saw an average increase in visitor numbers to UK attractions of 7.3%, while attractions in Scotland increased … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD boost from UK Construction: Forth Bridges online video – ‘Spanning Three Centuries of Engineering Innovation’
UK Construction’s online video channel explores ‘Forth Bridges: Spanning Three Centuries of Engineering Innovation’ looking at how ‘the Forth Bridges – the first completed in the 19th century, the second in the 20th century and the latest in the 21st … Continue reading
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IHBC CPD boost report from COTAC: A European take on risk management and disaster responses in communities
Ingval Maxwell, Chair of COTAC, the Council on Training in Architectural Conservation, offers IHBC members and colleagues a NewsBlog report back from a meeting of the European Civil Protection Forum, covering ‘Civil Protection in a Changing Risk Landscape’, in Brussels … Continue reading
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Neighbourhood Planning Support update
England’s Neighbourhood Planning Support calls on communities to shape the future of their local areas by creating a neighbourhood plan or neighbourhood development order, while offering updates on support available.
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June opening for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey has announced that The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries will open to the public on 11 June 2018, while the museum galleries, set more than 50ft (16 metres) above the Abbey’s floor in the medieval Triforium, will display some … Continue reading
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Restored Victorian Pub in London Scoops Prestigious Pub Design Award
The Campaign for Real Ale has revealed the very best pub designs across Britain, which includes the ‘longest bar in Britain’, a 1930s neo-Georgian roadhouse, a former Victorian coffeehouse and a tastefully modern new build pub, all celebrating ‘an enormously … Continue reading
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