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 Dezeen on… ‘An ‘alternative New York’, via Gaudi, AI and more.
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Knockando Woolmill, Scotland’s oldest working woolmill, has partnered Octopus Energy to bring its 19th-century waterwheel back to life, as the mill will use Octopus’ Shape Shifter Agile platform to help manage energy use and buy back power generated from the mill’s soon-to-be-restored hydro generator.
Continue readingA burgeoning data centre revolution is shifting from utilitarian sheds to something more architecturally adept, courtesy of some inspiration from ancient Greece, reports Urban Realm.
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To celebrate Vanbrugh300, The Georgian Group is inviting young designers, makers and imaginative minds to take part in our special competition and step into his shoes, to 30/09.
Continue readingGovernment UK has updated on ‘Culture Priority Places’ and its methodology.
Continue readingHistoric Environment Scotland (HES) want to hear views and experiences of using its new service trove.scot and has launched a survey to take feedback, which closes on 28 February 2027
Continue readingRevenue to target thousands of property owners with levies in bid to boost housing stock, reports The Independent.
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More than 200 remarkable buildings added to SAVE’s Buildings at Risk (BaR) register – from pubs and pits to town halls and theatres – increasing its BaR ‘to around 1,500 buildings at risk – the biggest in its history’.
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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 2027 in Bristol, interrogating ‘Climate Change and Significance’.
All registered delegates will be emailed a link to download the IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School recordings
But you can still sign up for IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School recordings
(from £35+VAT – using your IHBC membership number or discount code provided to RTPI members and others)
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The Victorian Society (Vic Soc) has responded to fire at The Big Mill in Leek – William Sugden’s Grade II-listed silk mill.
Continue readingThe 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 body for a study into adding value in the context of adaptive reuse, to 12/08.
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Continue readingThe National Wealth Fund and Lloyds Banking Group announce major new financing initiative to retrofit universities across the UK.
Continue readingThe UKGBC’s Policy Team’s detailed response to the Warm Homes Fund’s Call for Evidence has been issued.
Continue readingThe 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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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 power in the hands of communities
Continue readingGovernment UK reports on a project that ‘compared modelled energy use with monitoring data to identify inaccuracies in EPCs and propose improvements.’
Continue readingEnginuity – 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 engineering and manufacturing sector.
Continue readingThe 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’.
Continue readingDutch engineers have developed bricks that grow moss, purify the air, absorb CO2, and cool buildings, reports Green Architecture.
Continue readingIHBC’s latest Council received impressively positive feedback, as we advance the 3rd of our Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation…’ exploring Local Authority (LA) conservation roles and services, and now spotlighting a new film that could change conservation, on ‘pre-Pre App’ conversations.
Following our Parliamentary Commitments in 2025, the IHBC asks members, contacts and networks across UK Local Government (LG) conservation services for ‘advice, input and suggestions’ from Conservation Service Officers’ in Local Government, so we can call on UK governments to help make these ‘services better for users, as well as for Officers and advisers’.
| IF YOU ARE A CONSERVATION SERVICE OFFICER, ADVISER OR PROVIDER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLEASE HELP US: If you offer advice on conservation matters in local government please complete the form linked below. If you know of anyone who offers advice on conservation matters in local government please forward this message to them so they can complete the form. COMPLETE THE FORM SEE THE CALL |
The IHBC has launched its call to register ‘Interest’ in our new ‘Leaders in Learning for Practice Network’, for service leads in built and historic environment conservation-led learning & training programmes & courses, with resources allocated, advocacy a priority, and plans to be shaped by Network members.
Continue readingThe 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 2027 in Bristol, interrogating ‘Climate Change and Significance’.
All registered delegates will be emailed a link to download the IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School recordings
But you can still sign up for IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School recordings
(from £35+VAT – using your IHBC membership number or discount code provided to RTPI members and others)
