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- IHBC’s Director joins RICHeS Programme Board: ‘Honoured, of course, but mostly I’m impressed by the £80M of research opportunities for historic and built environment conservation’ 20/02/2026
- Don’t need your paper Context? Do everyone a favour and pass it on, ‘Spreading the Word’ to help the Conservation Professional! 20/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 20/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Unlock Access to RICHeS Research Infrastructure with Full Access Fund Call now Open with ‘Help’ webinar on 11/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Designing Buildings & more on Restoration and Renewal at Westminster 20/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: LPA Planning Capacity and Capability Survey 2025 20/02/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s weekly works: Charity seeks PM for heritage regeneration project, to 02/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Legal bid to protect Scots brutalist landmark from bulldozer 20/02/2026
- Delivering restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster: the costed proposals published 20/02/2026
- Government plans to train next generation of construction workers 20/02/2026
- SAVE’s Buildings at Risk register (BaR) – Call for Entries 2026 20/02/2026
- York Consortium for Craft and Conservation opens applications for Bursaries for 2026, to 16/03 20/02/2026
- Government Consultation on Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance, to 10/03 20/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: National Residential Retrofit Plan 2026 for Ireland’ makes upgrades more affordable and accessible 20/02/2026
- Bursaries for #IHBCNewcastle2026 open to 13/04, 18-20 June: ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC MARSH Awards: Nominate to celebrate ‘Successful Learning…’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution…’ (Ret IHBC) – with our easy-fill form open to 31/03 17/02/2026
- IHBC President’s ‘Members only’ Invitation to next Virtual Council: Online, 8 April 2026, from 4.30pm – Scoping ‘Investigation’ of conservation in local government, with a call for suggestions etc. 17/02/2026
- Booking opens for IHBC’s 2026 School, #IHBCNewcastle2026, June 18-20 (Full School only): Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ – From £35+VAT (Online Day School), free pre-conference webinars and more… 17/02/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ Signpost: Great Expectations Conference update by the National Churches Trust – Recordings now available 17/02/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC’s NewsBlog on ‘BOOKING OPEN for IHBC’s Full School (June 18-20): #IHBCNewcastle2026’ 17/02/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Heritage charity to change name after sale of 20,000-acre estate 17/02/2026
- National Heritage Emergency declared by Stoke-on-Trent – ‘first for a UK City’ – as Potteries needs £325Mn investment over the next decade 17/02/2026
- Nominations open for the Plowden Medal Conservation Award 2026, to 15/05 17/02/2026
- LPOC announces Listed & Modern Architectural Awards 2026 17/02/2026
Daily Archives: 10/12/2021
IHBC Gus Astley Student Award judge: Ian Morrison OBE (HE Exec & past CEO AHF) to select winner of £500 prize (& IHBC 2022 Aberdeen School’s first delegate)!
Ian Morrison OBE, Director of Policy and Evidence on the Executive Team at Historic England (HE) and past CEO of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), will be our guest judge for the 2021 IHBC Gus Astley Student Award, with winners … Continue reading
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IHBC says: ‘Please check your contact details, for the Yearbook and more, by 17/12’
The IHBC is calling on all members to check and update the contact details we hold, before 17/12.
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IHBC Practice signpost: Retrofitting a pre-1919 Scottish Housing Association tenement in a 21st century revamp
A ‘pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus standards’, by Southside Housing Association in Glasgow, is reported on by Scottish Construction Now. image for illustration purposes only – Thomas Nugent / Dudley Drive https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Dudley_Drive_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580164.jpg
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £115K+ works this week: DC seeks tenders re. conservation skills, closing 17/12, valued £15K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from this week is the call from … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversy as solar panels are approved for Edinburgh Castle
A row has escalated at Edinburgh Castle between the castle’s operators and city residents after heritage bosses won a battle to install solar panels on Edinburgh Castle in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, reports The Herald Scotland. image: … Continue reading
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Pilot scheme on ‘inclusive ways to empower’ communities across England and Scotland: £125K funding, closing 3 Jan 2022!
‘Outreach to Ownership’, an cross-border research pilot funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and run by Historic England (HE) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is seeking applications by 3 January.
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Glos. ‘strikingly contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse’ named RIBA House of the Year
House on the Hill, ‘a strikingly contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in Gloucestershire’, designed by Alison Brooks Architects, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2021.
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CIAT response to the architects’ regulation review: Calls for more collaboration, and review of protection of title etc.
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) has responded on the review of the regulation of architects, calling for collaboration and a review of the protection of the title architect.
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Sustainable Futures Survey: For any ‘designer, specifier, contractor or manufacturer’
The Sustainable Futures Survey from National Building Specification (NBS) seeking views on sustainability from any designer, specifier, contractor or manufacturer. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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Towns Fund monitoring and evaluation strategy
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have set out their approach to monitoring and evaluating the Towns Fund. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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CCT launches ‘Netflix for people who love churches’, targetting membership through streaming
The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) has launched CCTdigital.com, a new online streaming platform where people will be able to access films about church heritage, whilst helping to care for the nation’s historic churches in the process, Netflix-style!
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