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- 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
- IHBC issues formal notice to all IHBC Members for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 13/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026 13/12/2025
- IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC Signpost: DB the Construction Wiki Temporary Structures 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt 13/12/2025
- Government launches call for submissions to UK’s first national inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) – ‘living Heritage – open to 27/03 13/12/2025
- UK Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Heritage Crime 13/12/2025
- UK State of the Trades: a Report on the current UK Trade Landscape 13/12/2025
- RIBA Business Benchmarking Report 2025 issued 13/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep 2: ‘Europa?Nostra on new Culture Compass for Europe – ‘When Culture wins, Europe wins’ 13/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
Daily Archives: 11/07/2020
IHBC’s Virtual School extends across the globe…. very positively, if with a very light touch: 5 continents reach us, and 97% would repeat!
Analysis of some of the early data coming back from the IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School shows that we reached most continents – even if with some tiny numbers and including some familiar, if very welcome, faces – while overall feedback … Continue reading
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#IHBCMarshAwards update: Assessments due soon
As the COVID-19 pandemic overturned most plans across the globe, the IHBC’s partnership plans with the Marsh Awards also needed revision, but the partners can confirm that we’ll be assessing nominations and announcing results in the coming weeks.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £6M+ costed works across 11 projects: English BC seeks PM services for urban ‘Exemplar’, closing 16 July, valued £20-30K
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 top pick this … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the (city) doorstep’: ‘Living Wall’ of recycled metal set to transform building by Cannon Street Station
A scheme for a five storey ‘living wall’ made of drinks cans at Cousin Lane next to Cannon Street London Underground station got the green light from City of London Corporation, reports My London News.
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IHBC CPD Boost: The Journal of the Building Limes Forum (BLF)
The Journal of the Building Limes Forum (BLF) has been circulated to BLF members, while IHBC member Alison Henry explores her experience as editor and why this publication is ‘a timeless repository of research, knowledge and case studies for anyone … Continue reading
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NLHF launches ‘wide-ranging review’ of its approach to diversity and inclusion
Chief Executive of the National Lottery Heritage Fund Ros Kerslake has said that the powerful protests happening across the world, including the UK, calling for a re-examination and a redress of racial inequality has led her to reflect on The … Continue reading
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Don’t forget: UK Parliamentary Inquiry on ‘Energy Efficiency of Existing Homes’ closes 13 July
UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee is inviting written submissions of evidence on ‘Energy Efficiency of Existing Homes’, with the call closing 13 July. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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The role of Scottish public sector bodies in tackling climate change: consultation analysis
This presents the main messages arising from the consultation on the Role of Public Sector Bodies in Scotland in Tackling Climate Change.
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Strategic Review of the Restoration and Renewal Programme: invitation to make submissions, closing 7 August
Following announcement by Parliamentary Works Sponsors Body of its intention to conduct a Strategic Review of the Restoration and Renewal Programme, an invitation is extended to make submissions, with a closing date of 7 August. Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced … Continue reading
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New radical planning reforms cut red tape, says industry, but standards still needed!
Prime minister Boris Johnson has announced radical reforms to the planning system, giving freedom for buildings and land in town centres to change use without planning permission, though ‘Developers will still need to adhere to high standards and regulations, just … Continue reading
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£1.57Bn to protect cultural, arts and heritage institutions
The government has announced a £1.57 billion support package for cultural and heritage organisations.
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Where the Government’s £750M budget for charities is being spent
Government support for charities in the Covid-19 crisis was announced on 8 April 2020 when a £750m package to ‘ensure [charities] can continue their vital work during the coronavirus outbreak’ was outlined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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Two towers become one in Australian architectural first
Two Brisbane skyscrapers are being stitched together to create a new ‘green’ building, the BBC has reported.
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