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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
Monthly Archives: January 2022
IHBC’s HESPR Alert news throwback from December: Director’s selection
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 occasional news listing this month features updates from a single December issue of … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage form the urban doorstep’: Mayor announces ambitious new plans to rewild London
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a new £600,000 Rewild London Fund, to help restore London’s most precious wildlife sites and create more natural habitats for plants and animals to thrive. image: St James Park – Marcin Bia?ek, … Continue reading
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NHS Scotland ready to digitise its assets with interactive guide
NHS Scotland is set to digitise the design, build, and maintenance of its assets with the help of an interactive toolkit from the Construction Innovation Hub (CIH). image: Victoria Hospital, Glasgow – Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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Changes to approved document L and F and new approved document O
Changes to approved document L and F and Overheating Approved Document Requirement 01: Overheating mitigation Regulations 40B.
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ICE on the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has published an insights paper assessing the impact of previous UK active travel strategies and what the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy needs to cover. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government … Continue reading
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National Trust for Scotland ‘Facing Our Past’ project publishes interim report
National Trust for Scotland have been working on a new project – ‘Facing Our Past’ – to research the legacies of slavery in Scotland as part of the wider, extensive research undertaken into topics and issues of interest and concern … Continue reading
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Civil engineer quashes apprenticeship myths
At 18, India Jean-Jacques has already made an impressive start to her civil engineering career, and she now explains her path into the ‘boundless’ sector and debunks some common misconceptions.
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How Natural England’s Green Infrastructure Framework can help create better places to live: With feedback welcome
Natural England reports on the Green Infrastructure (GI) Framework, a commitment in the Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan to the greening of our towns and cities, and seeks feedback. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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IHBC Marsh Awards 2022 launched: ‘Your chance to nominate retired IHBC members and/or successful learners’, closing 31 March
[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 … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Blog-News ‘out of Context’: IHBC Chair explores climate warnings, fire, flood and values
IHBC Chair David McDonald’s blog ‘Notes from the Chair’ in the most recent issue of Context drills into the heart of global warming and the historic environment, inspired by the IHBC@COP26 Helpdesk+ services. image: Context – Rob Cowan
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IHBC’s HESPR Alert tender throwback from December: A week of opportunities from £115KM+ works, with opportunities across design, WHS advice & more
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while the Director’s new occasional ‘throwback’ listing boasts an impressive suite of opportunities.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage form the doorstep’: Scottish Housing Network highlights help for residents facing £330k bill for Aberdeen tenement works
An Aberdeen property management firm has secured heritage funding to support residents of a city centre tenement who were facing a £330,000 bill for major roof works, Scottish Housing News reports. image: for illustration purposes only – Stephen McKay / … Continue reading
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New £5M fund launched to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee
A new £5million programme will support community and voluntary organisations in England to develop creative and cultural activities as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June 2022.
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CSCS Smart Check app: Early adopters sought
The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Smart Check app will be rolled out from April 2022, allowing all cards displaying the CSCS logo to be electronically verified using a single app, and if you wish to be an early adopter … Continue reading
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Facilitation fund: Countryside Stewardship applications open: Closing 02/02
Funding to help groups of farmers, foresters and land managers improve the natural environment is now available through the 2022 Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund agreements, closing 02 February. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Independent Review of Public Sector Construction Frameworks now out: ‘Constructing the Gold Standard’
The review commissioned by Lord Agnew and led by Professor Mosey with a brief to create a new ‘Gold Standard’ for public sector frameworks and framework controls has been published.
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12 European heritage sites shortlisted by Europa Nostra for the 7 Most Endangered Programme 2022
The 12 most threatened heritage sites in Europe shortlisted for the 7 Most Endangered programme 2022 have just been announced by Europa Nostra – the European Voice of Civil Society Committed to Cultural and Natural Heritage – and the European … Continue reading
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Ohio police ask for help finding thieves who stole entire bridge
Someone first stole the deck boards and then came back for the rest of the structure, leaving police baffled, reports The Guardian. image: for illustration purposes only – LASZLO ILYES from Cleveland, Ohio, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia … Continue reading
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IHBC-SAHGB 2021 annual research awards headlined to 15K construction sector users of Designing Buildings & IHBC’s Conservation Wiki
The IHBC-SAHGB 2021 annual research awards winners has been featured on the digital Newsletter from Designing Buildings to the 15K+ registered users of the ‘construction wiki’ and IHBC’s Conservation Wiki.
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Reminder: IHBC 2022 AGM notice now out to members: 24 February 2022, 6pm
IHBC Chair David McDonald and Mike Brown, IHBC President & AGM Chair, have written to formally notify members of arrangements for the 2022 AGM, which will take place virtually on 24 February 2022 at 6.00pm.
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REMINDER: IHBC looks to the future with new ‘Affiliate’ arrangements: Improved support for all, and ONLY the name changes for those seeking status quo
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
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Reminder: IHBC’s HESPR network of conservation practices offers free help with heritage queries, as HESPR’s ‘15 minutes free advice’ is launched formally
The HESPR ‘15 minutes free advice’ service offers 15 minutes of free expert advice and guidance from conservation practices recognised through the IHBC’s HESPR register of commercial conservation practices.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £450K+ works: Council seeks heritage advisory service, closing 3/02, valued at £300K.
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 an advice service … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’: Guardian on ‘sub-Saharan Africa and world heritage’
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’, and this week features the Guardian on ‘sub-Saharan Africa and world heritage’.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage form the urban doorstep’ 1: Five Aberdeen high rises to remain A-listed as council appeal fails
The controversial listing of five Aberdeen tower blocks has been backed by the Scottish Government, reports The Aberdeen Press and Journal. image: HES
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