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- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Past President Mike Brown’s Vox Pop 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Communications and Outreach Strategy 2025-28 now online 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 14/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: GII Coventry Baths demolition approved by Historic England 14/10/2025
- Government responds to Parliamentary Report on Home Retrofitting with £13.2bn programme 14/10/2025
- HH: Lack of support from Scottish Government threatening heritage tourism sector 14/10/2025
- People across the country set to benefit from £4M boost to improve accessibility to arts and culture: Open to 14/11 14/10/2025
- THA’s Heritage and Placemaking Survey and Call for Case Studies – they want to hear from you… by 17 October 14/10/2025
- BSRIA: Wellbeing in Buildings (TG 10/2025) 14/10/2025
- ‘Remaking the relationship between citizens and the built environment’, a blog via Demos 14/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Heritage home in Canada demolished despite Heritage Act 14/10/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ reaches across disciplines, levels & sectors, from charities – led here by Scotland & CEOs – to Officers (LG) Inspectors (HE) & more 10/10/2025
- Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, offers insights into ‘The world of generative AI’ 10/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century 10/10/2025
- IHBC joins 33 leading organisations calling for £6.8M in urgent funding to support Planning Schools 10/10/2025
- IHBC launches FREE ‘Events Calendar’ submission form – with potential for inclusion in our celebrated monthly CPD Circular 10/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Management’ signpost): AJ on legal challenge to Barbican demolition… which ‘can proceed’ 10/10/2025
- Chancellor appoints infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments… to ‘do what it takes to get Britain building’ 10/10/2025
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 10/10/2025
- £214m new funding for Welsh communities to improve neighbourhoods and restore pride 10/10/2025
- RICS calls for expressions of interest for pilot programmes of new professional pathways 10/10/2025
- RTPI launches five-year strategy to elevate planning: Empower 2030 10/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Donovan Rypkema & Heritage Strategies International seek input on ‘measuring in Arts, Culture, and Heritage’ 10/10/2025
- Presidential invite to IHBC’s ‘members-only’ online Council Wednesday 8 October, 4.30pm, on ‘Heritage Skills & the Conservation Professional’, Charter explorations & more 07/10/2025
- IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow 07/10/2025
Daily Archives: 05/03/2021
IHBC eligible members: Vote by proxy to keep costs down and pace up at the IHBC’s General Meeting 26/03
Eligible members of the IHBC are strongly encouraged to use proxy votes for the Special Resolution at the forthcoming General Meeting (GM) on 26 March, and help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’, while keeping up the discussions and the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘members only’ first new Council: Free online CPD and a chance to shape our future – 26 March, from c.1.45pm (after the General Meeting)
Register for FREE for the March 26 2021 General Meeting AND/OR Council HERE IHBC Chair David McDonald said: ‘Trustees have decided to take early advantage of our new constitutional arrangements to host together the first General Meeting of 2021 and … Continue reading
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Last chance approaches for IHBC’s Marsh Award nominations: Celebrating the achievements of active and civic ‘retired IHBC members’
The closing date approaches for the IHBC’s Marsh Award for community contributions by retired members of the IHBC, with a prize that includes £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Brighton 2021 Annual School, and with nominations closing on … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC’s FREE CPD Taster: John Edwards on ‘Introducing Building Survey for Retrofit’, 29/03, 1pm-2pm
John Edwards, IHBC Technical Panel Chair and Trustee, will introduce ‘Building Survey for Retrofit’ to IHBC members in a free stand-alone IHBC CPD certified 1-hour session that also serves as a taster for fee-based IHBC CPD programmes previously delayed by … Continue reading
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BBC Northern Ireland TV ‘Restoration Rescue’ series seeks UK suggestions, via the IHBC Chair
The IHBC network has been ask to help a TV production company in Belfast to suggest stories of home restorations from across the UK.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £330K+ costed works: Welsh Council seeks QS for museum redevelopment, closing 22/03
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 pick features a … Continue reading
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Budget and building, ex. DBW
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s open-access Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has posted an update on the Budget from 3 March 2021….
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Builders’ Budget plea: cut VAT on home repairs, says FMB and RICS
A VAT cut on home improvement works from 20% to 5% for a temporary five year period would generate a huge economic stimulus, new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).suggests.
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Network Rail seeks engineering apprentices in the Highlands
Network Rail has launched an appeal for applications to become engineering apprentices in Inverness and Helmsdale in the Highlands. image: Network Rail website
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New RTPI mentoring programme opens: Closing 8/03
A pilot version of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI’s) new mentoring programme, called NURTURE and providing ‘structured, professional mentoring’ for 25 of its members ; looking to advance in their career and be successful in a senior role’ will … Continue reading
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CIC: Industry mega-poll for building professionals to track impact of PI insurance crisis
Building professionals from across the industry, are being invited to take part in the Construction Leadership Council’s biggest ever review of UK’s construction industry’s growing professional indemnity insurance crisis.
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139-Year-Old Victorian house moves through San Francisco
The move of a 139 year old Victorian House through the streets of San Francisco drew an excited crowd of onlookers who came out to watch a truck slowly and carefully pull the historic house through the streets.
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