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 CIOB People asking ‘Is heritage conservation in crisis?’.
DBR’s Adrian Attwood writes for CIOB People:
The construction industry is at a crossroads, with an acute shortage of new talent, particularly in specialist roles such as historic building conservation and traditional craft skills.
Year-on-year we are seeing fewer young people entering the profession, while at the other end of the spectrum, skilled stonemasons, leadworkers, slaters, conservation bricklayers and gilders are retiring – leaving a looming skills gap…..
Not only will this place historic buildings and monuments at greater risk of disrepair, but it also runs the risk of time-honoured crafts being lost forever.
Now is the time for the construction industry, as well as educators and policymakers, to cultivate the next generation of talent.
For more on HESPR and how to become a HESPR member see hespr.ihbc.org.uk
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