Monthly Archives: January 2022

The Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA) publishes paper ‘From Retrofit to Regeneration’, a blueprint for post-Covid recovery. image STBA

Full IHBC member Peter Aiers, Chief Executive (CE) of The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT), has been appointed the new Master and Chief Executive Officer of the Charterhouse, a 400-year-old almshouse charity in central London. image: CCT

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’, which this week features Building on its ‘top news, interviews and events of 2021’.

[slideshow_deploy id=’32193′] The IHBC’s Marsh Awards, developed in partnership with the Marsh Trust, has launched the two 2022 Awards – for civic contributions by retired members, and for successful learning in heritage skills – with prizes that include £500 and a free place at the … Continue reading →

Southgate District Civic Voice (SDCV) has been involved in a long-running campaign to encourage more meaningful community engagement on a controversial 17 storey redevelopment of Southgate Office Village, now allowed, on which Civic Voice reports. image: for illustration purposes only … Continue reading →

To help employers and practitioners, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the career opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, which this round features diverse roles across charity (casework, maintenance and admin), public (regeneration) and private sectors (architect), so … Continue reading →

IHBC has offered its congratulation to IHBC Member Darren Barker – conservation officer at Great Yarmouth Borough Council and managing director at the Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust – on the award of an MBE in the recent honours list. image: … Continue reading →

IHBC Board’s call to upgrade the Affiliate category to recognise those with an ‘awareness’ of conservation means that from April 2022 anyone not securing or applying for assessment as an Affiliate will join a new ‘supporter’-style category, but see no … Continue reading →

The IHBC has welcomed the publication of ‘Paper Tigers’: a critical review of Statements of Community Involvement in England’, a new report commissioned by Civic Voice from University of Reading. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0

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 a Council for a review etc. … Continue reading →

A derelict building near Somerset’s newest leisure centre may not be demolished until the spring, the district council has admitted reports the Chard and Ilminster News. image: South Somerset District Council

Samuel Hunt, Co-Founder and CEO of MaterialsMarket.com, gives his view about sexism in the construction industry to PBC Today. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0

[slideshow_deploy id=’32221′]The IHBC’s regular and free CPD Circular is out, signposting sector-wide learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) from IHBC Branches –  ‘Philosophy’ (West Midlands); ‘Saving the 21st Century’ (Northern Ireland) – to the Aberdeen 2022 School MarketPlace and much … Continue reading →