Monthly Archives: July 2023

An article in Harvard Magazine explores how financial markets have already begun to price in the probability of climate disasters, making future adaptation efforts more expensive and driving inequity. image: for illustration

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features is the call from a Welsh Council … Continue reading →

E.W. Pugin’s Grade II* chapel at the former seminary of Ushaw College, near Durham, has been badly damaged by fire in a suspected arson attack, with the Junior House has also suffering damage, reports The Tablet. Photo: The Tablet –  … Continue reading →

IHBC’s July CPD Circular is now out, with low-cost training and upskilling opportunities – including our livestreamed 2023 School #IHBCSwansea2023 – to help guide on all IHBC-networked and noted Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and more.

The Natural Stone Source Book has been published by Crosby Associates Media Ltd.

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 Designing Buildings calling for additions to its page on ‘Types … Continue reading →

Cleveland Pools has celebrated it success as a winner of the prestigious European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, its regeneration being one of just 30 projects to be honoured as an ‘outstanding heritage achievement’, from a wide-ranging field of … Continue reading →

The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context No. 176, explores the diverse facets of World Heritage Sites alongside a myriad of other aspects of conservation – designation, Armageddon and more – from across our globe.

The IHBC has welcomed the decision by Local Government Association (LGA) to set up a tribute page following the death of Lord Kerslake, a former vice chair of the IHBC-supported ‘Conservation, Places and People’ All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG).

The National Audit Office (NAO) on 30 June 2023 has published a new report on the Government’s resources and waste reforms for England noting it ‘still lacks effective long-term plans to reduce waste’.

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick for this week features is the call from a UK government … Continue reading →

A number of buildings in Somerset are among nearly 70 new entries added to SAVE Britain’s Heritage online Buildings at Risk Register, reports the Chard and Ilminster News.