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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: 30/08/2024
IHBC welcomes ODs, DODs, HODs & EHODs: Open Days for locally-led heritage resources and projects across September
The IHBC is once again delighted to welcome the suite of volunteer-led and publicly supported events across September that open access to local heritage places and resources: Open Doors (Wales), Doors Open Days (Scotland), Heritage Open Days (England) & European … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘History’ and amenity spotlight: Historic Buildings & Places’ Online Centenary Lecture – Bob Kindred MBE on ‘…what do conservation officers do (all day)?’ – 17/09
image from IHBC Context – Rob Cowan IHBC government officer and awards adviser Bob Kindred MBE will discuss the role of conservation officers in heritage management in an online lecture, part of a series celebrating the centenary of Historic Buildings … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes 25% reduction for members at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference, online, 25/09
The IHBC is delighted to announce the special offer to members of a 25% reduction at the 2024 RICS ‘Global Building Conservation Conference’, online on Wednesday 25 September, with up to 7 Hours Formal CPD.
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IHBC 2024 Student Award UPDATE – New closing date, 30 September: Seeks relevant coursework ‘written, designed or made’… to win £500 & free #IHBCShrewsbury2025 School place
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award closes on 31 September this year, so if you have submitted relevant coursework on a UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, whether ‘written, designed or made’ – over the two years … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Research spotlight: New House of Commons Research Briefing: ‘Maintaining and funding war memorials’
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald A new Commons Library collates some useful resources for individuals seeking information on funding, maintenance and other war memorial related questions.
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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £18K of works this week: Borough calls for pre-procurement work for community project, to 06/09
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 Borough’s call for a pre-procurement exercise on … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, conservation, environment, expertise, heritage, planning
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Cultural funding – challenges and opportunities, from the LGA
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Councils are the biggest public funder of culture, notes Local Government Association (LGA), this core funding has come under huge strain in recent years because of pressure on budgets, so it commissioned a … Continue reading
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More than 95% of planners call for change to strategic planning as government consults on NPPF
The new government has made it clear that it intends to promote a more strategic approach to planning, as new research reveals overwhelming support for effective strategic planning in England across the public and private sectors.
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English cathedrals become registered charities
image for illustration All 41 Church of England cathedrals have become registered charities, co-regulated by the Charity Commission and Church Commissioners.
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CIAT collaborates with CIOB, CIfA, Icon to launch ‘The Arc’, an historic built environment online resource.
The Arc is an online resource for clients and stakeholders in the built and historic environment sectors.
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Women into construction ceases trading after 16 years
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 After 16 Years of Changing the Face of Construction, Women into Construction has ceased trading as of 15th August 2024.
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Major demolition project approved for Sizewell A
image: Open Government Licence v3.0 Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) has been given planning consent to demolish the turbine hall and electrical annexe at Sizewell A site.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: A view on planning in Labour, from the World Architecture Festival 6-8/24, Singapore
image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Jeremy Melvin has posted a his view on the history of planning in Labour as part of the World Architecture Festival.
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