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- IHBC welcomes ‘SAVE Buildings at Risk’ 2026 launch as data – a record 208 buildings added – highlights ongoing heritage pressures & threats 03/07/2026
- As 90% of ‘Virtual’ Newcastle School feedback is ‘5/5’ or ‘4/5’, IHBC celebrates success in 2026, in learning, partnerships, friends & more, with thanks & congrats to all as Bristol 2027 looms, in June, on ‘Climate Change and Significance’ 03/07/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Fight Fire with Fire, from the Vic Soc – ‘These are no longer isolated incidents’ 03/07/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £5M+ costed works this week: Heritage body seeks study into added value of ‘Adaptive Reuse’ 12/08 03/07/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £500m retrofit boost for UK universities as Lloyds partners with National Wealth Fund 03/07/2026
- UKGBC responds to the Warm Homes Fund’s Call for Evidence 03/07/2026
- New Museum Climate Hub resource for sharing climate guidance 03/07/2026
- HE on Counter-Terrorism Security: The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act and likely implications for the heritage sector. 03/07/2026
- Pubs, shops and local assets protected with communities in charge 03/07/2026
- Government UK reports on Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) accuracy research project 03/07/2026
- Enginuity’s ‘Mind the Gap 2026’: The £5bn cost of missing skills across UK’s engineering & manufacturing sector 03/07/2026
- CLC publishes ‘Mental Health Joint Code of Practice’ 03/07/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Green Buildings with living brick… ‘that breathe green too’! 03/07/2026
- Spotlighting IHBC’s recent Council film, ‘Do Drop-in, before they drop out’: Our new, must-see interview on pre-Pre App options, and how talking to applicants can help make things better! 30/06/2026
- IHBC seeks suggestions from officers & advisers etc. in UK local government conservation services to inform our ‘call for changes’ to governments, to 10/07 & after 30/06/2026
- REGISTER INTEREST NOW: IHBC’s new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’ seeks ‘interest’ from leads in conservation-led education, training & learning programmes & courses 30/06/2026
- As 90% of ‘Virtual’ Newcastle School feedback is ‘5/5’ or ‘4/5’, IHBC celebrates success in 2026, in learning, partnerships, friends & more, with thanks & congrats to all as Bristol 2027 looms, in June, on ‘Climate Change and Significance’ 30/06/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: ‘Help Tackle One of Construction’s Biggest Killers: – Dust’…. a 5-minute survey open to 31 July 30/06/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Management’ CPD Signpost: The rise of AI and automation is making planning for industry harder to predict 30/06/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ on HESPR Member Donald Insall Associates named as AJ100 Practice of the Year 2026 30/06/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Mayoral) doorstep’: Mayors meet in York on ‘devolution revolution’, from Government UK 30/06/2026
- Climate Change Committee sets out methodological approach to building evidence for future risk assessment 30/06/2026
- Call for evidence: Strategy for the built environment professions, trades and occupations, to 12 August 30/06/2026
- Major new package of support for young people announced with Kings Trust 30/06/2026
- A new approach to place targeting across DCMS programmes 30/06/2026
Daily Archives: 03/07/2026
As 90% of ‘Virtual’ Newcastle School feedback is ‘5/5’ or ‘4/5’, IHBC celebrates success in 2026, in learning, partnerships, friends & more, with thanks & congrats to all as Bristol 2027 looms, in June, on ‘Climate Change and Significance’
The IHBC is delighted to thank all contributors, participants, sponsors, network partners, exhibitors and, especially, our RTPI 2026 School Friends, all of whom have helped make our Annual School in Newcastle, such a success, as we look ahead to June … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Fight Fire with Fire, from the Vic Soc – ‘These are no longer isolated incidents’
image for illustration: Gkbediako, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) has responded to fire at The Big Mill in Leek – William Sugden’s Grade II-listed silk mill.
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Tagged buildings at risk, conservation, cpd, industrial heritage, victorian
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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £5M+ costed works this week: Heritage body seeks study into added value of ‘Adaptive Reuse’ 12/08
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – sends members exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s top taster for NewsBlog readers this week a call by a national heritage … Continue reading
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Tagged careers, commercial, heritage, HESPR, professional
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £500m retrofit boost for UK universities as Lloyds partners with National Wealth Fund
The National Wealth Fund and Lloyds Banking Group announce major new financing initiative to retrofit universities across the UK.
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Tagged climate change, decarbonisation, environment, funding, retrofit, universities
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UKGBC responds to the Warm Homes Fund’s Call for Evidence
The UKGBC’s Policy Team’s detailed response to the Warm Homes Fund’s Call for Evidence has been issued.
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Tagged government, homes, retrofit
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New Museum Climate Hub resource for sharing climate guidance
The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and the National Museum Directors’ Council, supported with input from museum and heritage sector bodies, user groups and sustainability experts, have developed the Museum Climate Hub with web specialists MeThree.
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Tagged climate change, heritage sector, museums, research, resources
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Pubs, shops and local assets protected with communities in charge
image for illustration: Community Pub, West Wemyss, Bill Kasman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Government UK reports on a £61m fund to encourage people to save treasured local assets announced as part of a set of reforms to put more … Continue reading
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Government UK reports on Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) accuracy research project
Government UK reports on a project that ‘compared modelled energy use with monitoring data to identify inaccuracies in EPCs and propose improvements.’
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Tagged climate change, data, energy, EPCs, government, research
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Enginuity’s ‘Mind the Gap 2026’: The £5bn cost of missing skills across UK’s engineering & manufacturing sector
Enginuity – the charity focused on closing the skills gaps in engineering and manufacturing – has produce its Mind the Gap 2026 research report developed in partnership with SQW, quantifying the scale and cost of skills gaps across the UK’s … Continue reading
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Tagged engineering, manufacturing, research, workforce
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CLC publishes ‘Mental Health Joint Code of Practice’
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC), has published its Mental Health Joint Code of Practice (JCOP), to provide leaders and businesses etc. with ‘a framework to create an environment that fosters better mental health for their workforce’.
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Tagged built environment, business, construction, mental health
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Green Buildings with living brick… ‘that breathe green too’!
Dutch engineers have developed bricks that grow moss, purify the air, absorb CO2, and cool buildings, reports Green Architecture.
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Tagged architecture, climate change, engineering, global, green
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