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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: 27/05/2022
#IHBCAberdeen2022 Full School closed: Virtual & in-person Day School (17/06) options with #IHBCMarketPlace open, from only £25+VAT
While virtual and in-person places at the ‘blended’ 2022 Aberdeen School remain open, the IHBC has closed booking for the Full School options (16-18 June).
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IHBC welcomes MPs report on Building to Net Zero: Reuse first!
The IHBC has welcomed the publication by Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of ‘Building to net zero: Costing carbon in construction’, as MPs confirm that ‘Retrofit and reuse of buildings, keeping the carbon locked in, should be prioritised over new build’. … Continue reading
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#IHBCAberdeen2022 Day School, 17/06, certified CPD update: ‘Innovation: Working with ‘old’ heritage’, virtual from only £25+VAT
IHBC’s virtual and in-person 17 June, Day School afternoon session – on ‘Innovation: Working with ‘Old’ Heritage’ – explores contrasting challenges in caring for ‘old’ heritage, across retrofit and sustainability, masterplanning and design, with takes from Aberdeen, Gaia and heritage … Continue reading
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10+ hours CPD at IHBC’s Aberdeen School for FREE? Submit ‘Chair’s Choice’ questions early & win Virtual School fee back
Question and Answer opportunities will take place across the IHBC’s ‘blended’ Day School on 17 June, but time will be tight, so get your questions in beforehand for a chance to win the ‘Chair’s Choice’ for each session by submitting … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Research signpost: Vernacular Architecture Group – New Building Glossary
The Vernacular Architecture Group (VAG) has issued its new Building Glossary.
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Check out #IHBC25 online: 25 years being professional, and ideas sought on marking our heritage and looking ahead
Our new subscription year – April 2022 to March 2023 – will see the IHBC mark a quarter of a century since our incorporation as a professional body supporting and accrediting built and historic environment conservation specialists, so we’re kick-starting … Continue reading
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FREE learning, advice, networks etc. at IHBC’s virtual #IHBCMarketPlace – opening #IHBCAberdeen2022 15/06
All IHBC members can sign up for 3 hours of our free virtual Heritage #IHBCMarketPlace learning and networks, with access prioritised for #IHBCAberdeen2022 School delegates and earliest sign-ups.
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IHBC’s HESPR weekly pick from £1M+ costed works:: Church body calls for engagement etc. consultants, closing 03/06, to £9000
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 IHBC Director’s pick from the HESPR News and Tender Alert email for this week … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Fife’s historic buildings, ‘deteriorating due to climate change’, are closed
A councillor has criticised the decision to close so many of Fife’s historic attractions at the same time as ‘short-sighted’, reports The Dunfermline Press. image: for illustration purposes only – Dunfermline Palace by Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via … Continue reading
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Historic England Launches Interactive Story Map for Schools to Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee
Historic England has launched an interactive education tool displaying images of the Queen visiting key heritage sites across England.
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Reminder – National Lottery Awards 2022 nominations open: Closing 1 June
Nominations for the 2022 National Lottery Awards are open to 1 June.
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New Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe to be based in Kraków
A branch of the Europa Nostra network – the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub – will be established in Kraków, as the first outpost of this pan-European federation.
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