Daily Archives: 14/01/2022

Serious about your staffing plans or career? Get your ‘Heads Up’ with ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ as we headline career-defining posts – across sectors and disciplines – so sign up now!

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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 →

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IHBC congratulates IHBC Member Darren Barker on MBE

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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 →

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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

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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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IHBC welcomes Civic Voice’s ‘Paper Tigers’: A critical review of Statements of Community Involvement in England

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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

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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £2.3M+ works this week: Council seeks heritage strategy draft review, closing 11/02, valued to £12K

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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 →

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Chard Leisure Centre eyesore may remain until spring

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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

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Gove formally calls on residential property developer industry for new approach to building safety

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Letter from the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove to the residential property developer industry on a new approach to building safety. image: Open Government Licence v3.0

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Ministers plan law to order independent reviews of RICS governance

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Ministers are planning to legislate to give government the power to order regular reviews of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) governance. image: Open Government Licence v3.0

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QEST offers financial assistance to training costs for craftspeople: now open for applications: Next round closes 14/02

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The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) offers funding to help people continue their training’, with current round closing 14/02 and an online guidance session 20/01.

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Only days left to enter AJ Small Projects 2022: Closing 21 January

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Now in its 27th year, the annual Architects Journal (AJ) Small Projects Award, run in association with Marley, celebrates completed projects with a contract value of £299,000 and under, which closes on 21 January.

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IHBC’s IMHO signpost: Sexism in the construction industry

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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

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