Daily Archives: 20/10/2020

Lathams, IHBC’s latest HESPR registered practice: Nearly 50 HESPR service providers working to IHBC standards

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Lathams is the latest company to join the IHBC’s conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ quality assurance listing, joining the heritage businesses, offering from it East Midlands based practice services that combine architecture, planning, conservation, regeneration, and urban design.

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IHBC’s Virtual MATEs span local to global applicants, as membership accreditation takes to the airwaves

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Having piloted a Virtual Membership Application Training Event (MATE) in May, the IHBC has now rolled out several dates for more, all of which have been filled within days of being advertised, and with targeted groups ranging from antipodean applicants … Continue reading →

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IHBC asks for: ‘YOUR PROSECUTIONS DATA PLEASE’… to help us help conservation!

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IHBC’s National Database of Listed Building Prosecutions – created in 1996 on the initiative of Bob Kindred, and now with details of hundreds of case sentences – is the ‘go to’ resource on local authority prosecutions, but its contents need … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: ‘Trade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence’

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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Building’s … Continue reading →

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IHBC’s features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Salford’s green spaces protected in the courts – again

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Salford City Council is celebrating after another victory in the courts to protect Salford’s green spaces. image: for illustration purposes only – open government licence v3.0

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Mapping tool for unused construction materials launched

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A mapping tool that provides contractors and their suppliers with a central database of local Materials Exchange Platform (MEP) projects to help cut waste by finding a home for unused materials has been launched.

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… Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020 report launch by THA

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The Heritage Alliance (THA) has published a new version of its key document on funding, Backing the Bedrock: Fiscal and Funding Priorities 2020.

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Climate Assembly UK publishes report on path to net zero emissions

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The first UK-wide citizens’ assembly on climate change, which was commissioned by six House of Commons Select Committees, has published its final report on how the UK can reach its legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050. Image … Continue reading →

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Brick Sector Stakeholder Sustainability KPI Questionnaire

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UK brick industry launches survey on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify important topics for the sector. image: for illustration purposes only

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Sir David Adjaye OBE to receive 2021 Royal Gold Medal

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Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence ‘either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture’.

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Adrian Olivier appointed as the Chair of the Historic Environment Forum

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The Historic Environment Forum (HEF) has announced that Dr Adrian Olivier – former English Heritage Heritage Protection Director and Head of Profession for Archaeology  – has been appointed as Chair.

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