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- IHBC’s Council Update: Looking ahead to business on 24 March – first blended Council – with new (& past) Presidents & Vice Presidents, and looking back, on Irish structural engineering CPD ‘across borders’ 24/01/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service helps diverse disciplines, levels and sectors, from St Paul’s Cathedral estate to Cadw works supervision, & inter-governmental heritage care to historic railway business 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025 24/01/2025
- 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 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s Finance and Economics Signpost:The AHF is investing in the ‘Future of Heritage’ 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £8.2M+ of weekly works: BC seeks multi-disciplinary team for design code, to 17/02 & £200K 24/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Blenheim Palace gets annual deep clean before £10.4m roof restoration 24/01/2025
- £23M package to support restoration of thousands of listed places of worship 24/01/2025
- World Monuments Fund Announces 2025 Watch: Includes Belfast’s Assembly Rooms… & the Moon! 24/01/2025
- Local authority planning capacity and skills survey: 2023 findings – 97% face skills gaps, 91% struggle with recruitment, & 38% on reduced teams 24/01/2025
- MHCLG seeks ‘Technical independent advisers’ for College of Experts 24/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Global) doorstep’: Trump on ‘PROMOTING BEAUTIFUL FEDERAL CIVIC ARCHITECTURE’ 24/01/2025
- IHBC looks back on Context 181 (Part 2): Special Features update, from coal tar to Blue Plaques and climate impacts, for insightful and accessible learning and CPD 21/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC ‘Research’ Signpost: Historic England’s Heritage Indicator Data update – Part of Heritage Counts 21/01/2025
- 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 21/01/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Dezeen signposts the 25 most significant 21st century buildings… so far, starting with the Tate Modern 21/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Former St Joseph’s Orphanage site had ‘community protection notice’ served on it 21/01/2025
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) turns 50 21/01/2025
- Reminder: HE & partners’ ACHTaxonomies Research Project seeks evidence, participants etc. to ‘articulate the economic value of heritage’ – open to 30/01 21/01/2025
- Membership of new Creative Industries Taskforce announced 21/01/2025
- CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (UK Research) doorstep 2’: UKRI developing new research data policy framework 21/01/2025
Daily Archives: 20/08/2024
IHBC welcomes HEF’s ‘Historic Environment Overview’, with IHBC’s ‘Conservation Professional Practice Principles’ spotlighted!
The Historic Environment Forum’s (HEF) ‘Historic Environment Overview’, part of Historic England’s (HE) Heritage Counts is now out, including also a feature notice on the IHBC’s Conservation Professional Practice Principles.
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IHBC adds new ‘Climate Change Adaptation’ category to HESPR practice areas: ‘… responding to climate change issues…’
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for commercial heritage services – now has the new practice area of ‘Climate Change Adaptation’, helping promote accredited members’ specialist skills and roles linked … Continue reading
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STILL TIME – IHBC Affiliate Fast-Track Pilot for Local Authority conservation staff (with personal guidance too) ends soon: Open to applicants from 15/07 to 30/08/2024, so pass the word!
The IHBC has launched 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 30 … Continue reading
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SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2024 now open: 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 ‘Practice’ and Learning spotlight: Angharad Hart on ‘Conservation Wiki’… for learning support in a changing climate
‘Learning support in a changing climate’ is a Designing Buildings feature article that originally appeared in the IHBC’s 2023 Yearbook, written by the IHBC’s Education, Training and Application Support Officer Angharad Hart.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Designing Buildings on the IHBC’s Affiliate application pilot for local authority conservation staff
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’s special news features Designing Buildings (DB) on IHBC’s Affiliate application pilot … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Bucks Council consent for HS2’s works to Grim’s Ditch Iron Age Site
image for illustration: HS2 Buckinghamshire Council has given consent to HS2 Ltd.’s proposals for Grim’s Ditch, a Scheduled Monument, near Leather Lane, Great Missenden, as part of the HS2 project passes through this pre-historic asset of national importance.
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HE: New funding for young people to uncover ‘Hidden Histories’
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Young people living in deprived areas will be helped to explore and celebrate untold local histories thanks to the launch of a national grant programme by Historic England (HE).
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THA: Call for members’ case studies for refreshed ‘Creativity Report’, to 9/09
The Heritage Alliance (THA) is calling for contributions from its members to its upcoming publication on the creative industries – saying ‘if you have an impactful example of how heritage and creativity go hand in hand, we want to hear … Continue reading
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New Trustees join AHF
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the appointment of three new Trustees to its Board: Peter Williams, Syreeta Bayne and Andy Westwood. Peter has been appointed to replace Roy Hodson as the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Bulldozing our history’: Alberta man working to restore town’s grain elevators
image for illustration: Nanton Grain Elevator by Ken Eckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Leo Wieser, President of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre Nanton, is working to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies – twin grain elevators in Nanton, … Continue reading
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