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- IHBC’s ‘Special Thanks’ to 2025’s Student Award entrants, as 49 seek prizes (to £500) & places at #IHBCNewcastle2026 17/10/2025
- IHBC welcomes Campaign for National Parks success as ‘plans to weaken protected landscapes duty quietly dropped’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Traditional and historic buildings – a new Retrofit British Standard, an update from IHBC’s John Edwards, with joint CPD webinar 14/11 17/10/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £495K+ of weekly works: Welsh Council seeks team for urban hub, to 31/10 and c.£75K 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’ (& ‘Evaluation’ signpost!): ‘History of the Pioneering Stockton and Darlington Railway’ via HE 17/10/2025
- National Audit Office: Weak controls and oversight blamed for faulty home installations under energy efficiency scheme 17/10/2025
- New UK Town of Culture competition to celebrate our national story 17/10/2025
- THA Call for Case Studies for Heritage Debate 2025, to 24/10 17/10/2025
- New Towns Taskforce: Report to government published 17/10/2025
- Communities to ‘seize control over high streets and restore pride’ 17/10/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Creative Health – UK & Ireland State of the Sector Survey, to 31 October 17/10/2025
- 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
Daily Archives: 13/08/2021
National Churches Trust on ‘supporting Northern Ireland’s churches and chapels’… with the IHBC & NI Branch
Northern Ireland has 2,500 churches and chapels – more per head than anywhere else in the United Kingdom, and the recent National Churches Trust update highlights include partnership with the IHBC and our national Branch in the Northern Ireland Places … Continue reading
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New Closing Date for IHBC’s Student Awards: Submit your coursework by 31 AUGUST to win up to £500 & a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School
Following calls from participating courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award is now 31 August, so relevant coursework submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate – from 2020 OR 2021 may be submitted online … Continue reading
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IHBC’s CPD boost: Responding to DBW’s list of 120 articles it seeks – from ‘veneer’ and ‘renaissance’ to ‘planning precedent’
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has published a list of 120 subjects it needs articles written about, all good starting points for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) … Continue reading
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IHBC online registration for ‘Recognised CPD Providers’: Reminder on signing up online, for free!
IHBC’s support for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) includes our online registration for anyone – or any organisation – seeking our free recognition service and listing for CPD providers.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Southend’s Westcliff Hamlet Court Road ‘to get conservation area status’
The unique nature of Southend’s ‘second High Street’, Hamlet Court Road, is set to be recognised with conservation area status, reports The Echo.
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CLC backs largest ‘safety stand down’ of tools etc., in October, to improve ‘health, safety, and wellbeing’
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has thrown its support behind the UK’s largest construction health & safety ‘stand down’ of tools etc., to ‘encourage businesses to… participate in sessions aimed at improving the health, safety, and wellbeing’. image: for illustration … Continue reading
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Project Routemap – UK’s IPA, on setting up ’novel or complex’ infrastructure projects
Project Routemap is the Infrastructure and projects Authorities (IPA) support tool for novel or complex major projects. It helps sponsors and clients understand the capabilities needed to set projects up for success, incorporating learning from other major projects and programmes.
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New Zoom app lets UK charities fundraise within the platform
The video meeting platform Zoom has added a donation function to its platform for all registered UK charities.
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URBACT on ‘Good Practice Transfer – Why not in my City?’: Aveiro to Zugló, Kosovo to Cork
‘Good Practice Transfer – Why not in my City?’ shares positive stories from 23 cities that transferred and adapted urban good practices to their local contexts while learning from EU peers.
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CSIC launches ‘Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment’
Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) has launched ‘Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment’.
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Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk third Climate Change Risk Assessment Report published
The Adaptation Committee’s Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk in its third report sets out the priority climate change risks and opportunities for the UK.
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Cuprinol Shed of the ‘Plague’ Year Finalists Announced
A record 331 entrants are competing for the Cuprinol Shed of the Year title, as reported on June.
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