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- LA conservation jobs in England: ‘Market Intelligence’ Research Note from IHBC’s 2024 ‘Jobs etc.’ posts,via our ToolBox 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s first Councils for 2025, with targeted CPD for all members: · 21 January – virtual, with Conall Doherty on ‘… Structural engineering in Ireland’ · 24 March, blended Council, London Charterhouse, welcoming new President Rebecca Thompson 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Design & Presentation’ signpost: SPAB CE & IHBC member Matthew Slocombe on Clandon Park controversy, BBC (44.32-51.20; and 22/01) 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming soon: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £50K+ of weekly works: National heritage body seeks research linked to regeneration, to 23/01 & £20K 17/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Council aims to go beyond net zero by removing carbon emissions 17/01/2025
- National Trust’s 130th birthday marked by Director General’s unveiling of ambitious plans in 10-year strategy 17/01/2025
- CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025 17/01/2025
- HE & Direct Access survey: Accessibility and Inclusion, to 05/02, with focus group calls for January 17/01/2025
- England’s independent review announced to ensure access to arts and culture in every region, led by Baroness Margaret Hodge 17/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (UK Research) doorstep 1’: Five new projects tackle climate change with cultural heritage 17/01/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming soon: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case 14/01/2025
- IHBC’s first ‘CPD Circular’ for 2025: For cost-conscious and time-sensitive conservation learning… events, awards, calls and more (with pictures & review too!) 14/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 14/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Dezeen’s top 10 UK architecture projects of 2024 14/01/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ features ‘’A ‘boon for landfill’… buildings we lost in 2024’ 14/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Cairngorm railway is ‘inherently flawed’, warns engineer 14/01/2025
- Government’s National Buildings Database – A ‘detailed inventory of all the buildings in Great Britain’, including energy performance 14/01/2025
- Culture Secretary: Independent review to ensure access to high quality arts and culture in every region 14/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (icon’s) doorstep’: Barbican Centre funding for essential works approved by City of London Corporation 14/01/2025
- IHBC’s first Councils for 2025, with targeted CPD for all members: · 21 January – virtual, with Conall Doherty on ‘… Structural engineering in Ireland’ · 24 March, blended Council, London Charterhouse, welcoming new President Rebecca Thompson 10/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Policy’ Signpost: FuturHist’s ‘Policy Framework’ on European Policies for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings 10/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.2M+ of weekly works: Scottish Trust calls for Conservation Architect-led team for project, to 24/01 & £170K 10/01/2025
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Water companies could face raft of legal challenges after landmark sewage ruling
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Water companies could face a tide of legal challenges, after a landmark judgment in the Supreme Court removes a block on lawsuits over pollution.
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‘Out with the old, in with the new’, Lichfields report on repurposing town centre buildings published
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Guiding principles for successfully repurposing town centre buildings published by Lichfields.
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Appointment of Sara Robertson as new chair of trustees for Historic Buildings and Places
Historic Buildings & Places is delighted to announce the appointment of Sara Robertson as our new Chair of Trustees.
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Scotland’s Landscape Charter Review: workshop summary April 2024
image for illustration: Fiona Newton A Scotland’s Landscape Alliance (SLA) workshop-led event kicked off the second phase of the review of Scotland’s Landscape Charter which has been welcomed by the Scottish government.
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IHBC’s 7th Council scrutinises heritage implications in new political landscape, updates on #IHBCpetitionforcharter, outlines Supporter options for LA Staff Affiliate applications & more
The IHBC’s Council, the Institute’s inclusive advisory body with exclusive training for members – including future trustees and officers – at its heart, held its seventh online meeting on 11 July, with over 150 IHBC members signed up, and included … Continue reading
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Interested in serving as a co-opted IHBC trustee? With our new Board in place, we’re seeking a trustee with early/mid-career, diversity and/or local authority profiles, to 30/08
With our new 2024 IHBC Board in place, and our plans to enhance representation, we’re seeking a new co-opted trustee to extend our top-level ties across any or all agreed priority areas: early/mid-career; diversity and/or local authority roles, with first … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 opens: Celebrating ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, enter work from 2022 by 1/09 2024
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2024 joint Heritage Research Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, with submissions welcomed … Continue reading
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IHBC to launch Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too): Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC will soon launch a new Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot – developed from recent pilots – specifically aimed at helping existing Local Authority heritage, planning and conservation staff progress from Supporter to Affiliate membership, and maybe beyond, with applications closing … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £515K works this week: Heritage agency seeks specialist survey, to 02/08, to £15K
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 this week is a call from a national heritage agency for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (city) doorstep’ 1: Westminster City Council and The Crown Estate call for innovative design teams to shape the Future of Regent Street
image for illustration: Regent Street, London by Clay Gregory, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Westminster City Council with The Crown Estate seek urban designers for a ‘truly transformational experience for Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket’s public realm’.
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BE-ST on Retrofit lessons from Ireland
image for illustration Sara Edmonds, Head of Citizen Engagement and Gavin Johnston, Retrofit Impact Manager, went to Ireland to learn about the country’s approach to retrofit, and report back in a blog.
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UCEM data indicates serious lack of green skills and expertise and suggest how that gap can be bridged
image for illustration The University College of Estate management (UCEM) data indicates the serious lack of green skills and expertise and proposes how the built environment can bridge the green skills gap.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Judge orders that Hawaii Island house built on wrong lot be demolished
A half-million-dollar Hawaii Island house built on the wrong property on the Big Island must be demolished according to a judgment in Kona, reports HawaiiNewsNow.
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IHBC welcomes Blue Willow Heritage to HESPR: IHBC’s register of quality-assured conservation and heritage practices
Blue Willow Heritage is the latest company to be included on the IHBC’s commercial conservation services listing, ‘HESPR’ (‘Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition’), IHBC’s highest level of quality assurance for heritage businesses.
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Interested in serving as a co-opted IHBC trustee? With our new Board in place, we’re seeking a trustee with early/mid-career, diversity and/or local authority profiles, to 30/08
With our new 2024 IHBC Board in place, and our plans to enhance representation, we’re seeking a new co-opted trustee to extend our top-level ties across any or all agreed priority areas: early/mid-career; diversity and/or local authority roles, with first … Continue reading
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IHBC to launch Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too): Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC will soon launch a new Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot – developed from recent pilots – specifically aimed at helping existing Local Authority heritage, planning and conservation staff progress from Supporter to Affiliate membership, and maybe beyond, with applications closing … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 opens: Celebrating ‘research… in heritage and conservation practice’, enter work from 2022 by 1/09 2024
The IHBC is delighted to announce the opening of the 2024 joint Heritage Research Award with the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) to celebrate ‘the quality of architectural-historical research.. in heritage and conservation practice’, with submissions welcomed … Continue reading
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IHBC celebrates learning, insights, networking & more at 2024’s ‘addictive’ Reading School on ‘Place & Building Care…’: Interim update, thanks & signposts to ‘IHBC CPD, despite purdah’
As IHBC’s 2024 Reading School has (mostly) ended, the IHBC offers more thanks to speakers, volunteers, supporters, participants and Sponsors –Principal Sponsor MFL Insurance Group and Reception Sponsor Velux – with an interim update on #IHBCReading2024 past and future.
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IHBC’s ‘History’ and ‘Technology’ Signposts: HE introduces John Smeaton, the ‘Father of Civil Engineering’
Blue Plaque to John Smeaton by Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historic England (HE) has introduced the ‘Life and Work of John Smeaton’, the ‘Father of Civil Engineering’ and the remarkable feats of engineering by this … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (barn) doorstep’: Architects win go-ahead to reuse historic Harlow barn for new hall
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Barbara Weiss Architects wins go-ahead to reuse historic Harlow barn for new community hall, reports Your Harlow.
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Planning Portal’s sustainability and planning guidance for homeowners and professionals
image for illustration Planning Portal has published sustainability guidance aimed at homeowners or those working on small projects.
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Robert Gordon University Aberdeen Construction Survey ‘towards Digital twins’ launched
image for illustration Robert Gordon University (RGU) Aberdeen has launched a survey on ‘Digital representation of buildings: towards Digital twins’.
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National Federation of Builders (NFB) and Scottish Building Federation (SBF) announce ambition to become one
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 The National Federation of Builders (NFB) and the Scottish Building Federation (SBF) – two of the country’s leading and longest-running construction trade associations – have announced that they plan to become ‘one organisation’ … Continue reading
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Building Craftsperson of the Year Award opened by SPAB, to 31/07
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Opening of entries for the Building Craftsperson Award, sponsored by Owlsworth IJP, which recognises the best up-and-coming craftspeople working with traditional materials and old buildings announced by Society for the Preservation of Ancient … Continue reading
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The world of Suffolk’s remarkable churches unveiled
‘Guides to Suffolk Churches Online’ launched on the 50th anniversary of the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust (SHCT) Foundation Day (21st December 1972).
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