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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: 18/08/2020
IHBC highlights ‘Heritage Rescue’: Special opportunity for TV features on ‘rescues’
The IHBC has been contacted by a TV production company called Curve Media to highlight its search for feature ‘rescues’ for a new primetime series it is producing for the Discovery Channel, with the working title ‘Heritage Rescue’, to be … Continue reading
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Don’t forget IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards 2020 closing date extended to 31 August: £500 + free place at IHBC’s 2021 Brighton School – Just submit coursework online!
Following calls from IHBC Recognised Conservation Courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award has been extended to 31 August 2020, so relevant coursework from history and theory to practice or enhancement, submitted on ANY … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Critics wade into Jenrick’s planning reforms
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 members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: The five ‘eyesore’ buildings in Edinburgh that locals most want to see torn down
Recently, Edinburgh Live asked its Facebook followers to nominate ‘eyesore’ buildings that they would most like to see demolished in the capital, and hundreds of people replied, though as one of them hasn’t even been built yet, Edinburgh Live is … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: The making of Dublin’s 14 Henrietta Street Museum
If you would you like an architectural conservation knowledge challenge, check out the history of housing and the changes over time in Dublin in the article by the City Council’s heritage officer, Charles Duncan, in issue 163 of Context, which … Continue reading
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HS2 to hide tunnel vent shafts with ‘country barns’ in Chilterns, but not London
The rail project’s treatment of an area to hide tunnel vent shafts with ‘country barns’ in the Chilterns contrasts with that of council estate in inner London. image: The Guardian – HS2
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New NI Historic Buildings Council appointed following open competition
Communities Minister for Northern Ireland (NI) Carál Ní Chuilín has announced the appointment of the Chair and eight new members to the Historic Buildings Council following open competition….
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AHRC’s digital ‘Museum of Boundless Creativity’ seeks nominations, closing 28/08
This September the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will open its first ever digital collection – the Museum of Boundless Creativity – which will be available to browse 24/7 – and it seeks new nominations for an object, idea … Continue reading
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London Design Festival Announces 2020 Program: 12-20 Sept
The London Design Festival has announced the program for its 18th edition to be held from 12-20 September 2020.
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TrustMark’s quality assurance ‘at heart’ of England’s new £2Bn green homes grants
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (DBEIS) is urging tradespeople to sign up for TrustMark accreditation as part of the new Green Homes Grant scheme. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Barratt uncovers weak concrete frames at seven high rises
Britain’s biggest house builder Barratt has found structural design defects within seven more multi-storey concrete frames built over 10 years ago, with the alert first raised when defective ACM cladding was removed following the Grenfell disaster at one major scheme … Continue reading
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Govt. explains ‘The Draft Building Safety Bill’ The government is bringing forward changes that will improve building and fire safety, so that people will be, and will feel, safer in their homes.
The government is bringing forward changes that will improve building and fire safety, so that people will be, and will feel, safer in their homes. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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National Lottery Heritage Fund: Digital Skills for Heritage update
The National Lottery Heritage Fund(NLHF) currently is currently running a Digital Skills for Heritage programme with various strands.
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Dad’s Army station saved from bulldozers
A delightful country station dating from the golden decade of railway building and used in the filming of Dad’s Army has received a reprieve from imminent demolition. image: SAVE website – by Breckland DC
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