The IHBC is delighted to co-sponsor COTAC’s 2013 Annual Conference, ‘Embracing a Digital Future for Traditional Buildings: Practical Applications for Survey and Management’ which will take place in London on 26 November 2013 and offers a 40% discount for IHBC members, reducing the early-bird rate from £145 to £87!
Ingval Maxwell OBE, COTAC Chair, writes: ‘The ICOMOS Guidelines on Education and Training, of 1993, are at the heart of COTAC’s omnibus approach to improve the standard, education and awareness of those disciplines working in the broad field of building conservation. Users can miss that the Guidelines also highlight the need to document what has been done, and to make that documentation accessible in the future.’
‘In this, the third of COTAC’s Annual Conferences, the focus is on how emerging digital technologies can be used to help achieve that with pragmatic gains and practical applications.’
‘With the support of case studies, the event will consider how the latest digital technologies can be of assistance to practitioners, and it will address how to assess the relevance of what can be adopted to suit particular needs. It will also look at the issue of how to archive such material, and how it could be supportive of developing Building Information Modelling (BIM) initiatives’.
‘In this fast moving field, the conference topic is both timely and relevant. It will be useful to a wide variety of practitioners in a manner that will introduce them to the benefits of, and enhance their abilities to use, digital technologies to greater advantage.’
‘People are fascinated by new digital technologies for recording and managing building datasets – but are uncertain about how the new techniques can be implemented. Many of the latest technologies appear to require significant investment, not only financially, but also in planning, time and staff training. It is a big commitment – especially for smaller practices! How can we start to bridge the gap between the innovators and the rest of the building conservation world? This conference aims to provide delegates with some practical solutions to these issues.’
‘We will look at the latest technologies for capturing and using building data, and how they can be implemented in useful and cost-effective ways.’
COTAC describes the conference offerings as follows:
· An essential guide for organisations considering investing in new systems
· Practical case studies that show how organisations are using new technologies to record and manage historic buildings.
Explore the following issues:
- What will the future look like? What are going to be the most useful and widely adopted technologies in a few years’ time?
- How can organisations assess which technologies and platforms are best investment for them?
- What are the key steps for successful implementation?
- Practical Digital Asset Management: how do you record, structure, store, share and secure your data?
- How do you use all that data for da-to-day conservation management?
See conference outline and book at: LINK
To get your IHBC member discount at COTAC 2013 enter the promotional code ‘IHBC ‘when booking and your reduced rate will appear.
Please note that to secure the reduced rate, such applications will be cross-referenced against IHBC’s membership database to ensure that all IHBC subscription fees are fully up to date.
For COTAC see http://www.cotac.org.uk/
For the impact of COTAC’s 2011 conference see the IHBC’s Newsblog summary at: LINK
