Need a MATE? Act soon & reserve your free online IHBC Accreditation guidance and update session soon (November closed; January still open)

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

As part of the IHBC’s evolving Membership Accreditation Training Events (MATE ) programme, we’re continuing to offer free webinars for applicants with CPD-certified advice on applying for IHBC accreditation (Full & Associate).

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Parliamentary Signpost: Lords completes examination of Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill had its third reading, ‘a chance for members to make sure the eventual law is effective, workable and without loopholes’, on Monday 10 November.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Building Design (Tanvir Hasan) on Losing ‘historic craftmanship’

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

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 Building Design with Tanvir Hasan on ‘Losing ‘historic craftmanship’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (development) doorstep’: Ightham Mote’s new visitor & landscape works for the National Trust

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Ightham Mote by Poliphilo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reed Watts worked with Landscape Architects Colvin & Moggridge to design a new visitor reception, retail shop and associated landscape works for the National Trust’s Ightham Mote in Kent, a Grade 1 listed building and Scheduled Monument

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Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2025

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

Historic England has issued its Heritage at Risk Register 2025, which gives an annual snapshot of the health of England’s valued historic buildings and places, ‘helping ensure they can be protected and continue to be enjoyed…’.

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St Paul’s Crowned Best Cultural Experience at Toast the City Awards

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

St Paul’s Cathedral has won Best Cultural Experience in the City of London at City AM’s Toast the City Awards 2025.

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CIC announces approval of new British Standard on Sustainability Competence, with Call for Expertise

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) is has announced the proposal to use The Edge and CIC’s ‘Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment’ as the foundation for a new British Standard on sustainability competence, with new Call for Expertise.

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RICS: Optimism high for AI in construction but skills shortages and integration challenges adoption

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

The construction industry stands on the brink of a digital transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new global report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS): ‘The AI in Construction 2025’ report.

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British Woodworking Federation (BWF) leads coalition across construction to protect future of apprenticeships

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) leads a coalition of organisations across the construction sector to protect the future of apprenticeships.

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Sheerness Dockyard Church wins RIBA Reinvention Award 2025

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced Sheerness Dockyard Church in Kent, by Hugh Broughton Architects as the winner of its Reinvention Award, 2025.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: US SAH ‘Statement’ on ballroom addition at the White House

Posted on 18/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: The White House by DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Heritage Conservation Committee issued a statement expressing great concern on the proposed ballroom addition at the White House.

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IHBC welcomes Vice President Torsten Haak as Guest Judge for 2025 Student Award: Selecting next ‘Gus Astley’ winner, to receive £500 + Newcastle School place, 18-20 June 2026

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC is delighted to welcome Torsten Haak, Executive Director of the Iona Community and IHBC’s Vice President as our guest judge for IHBC’s 2025 Gus Astley Student Award, supporting our student awards programme of certificates, cash prizes & free places at IHBC’s 2026 Annual School – #IHBCNewcastle2026 – 18-20 June.

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Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with Bob Kindred’s must-read review of heritage periodicals

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

image: Rob Cowan for IHBC Context

IHBC’s members’ journal Context in June 2025 – No. 184 – focussed on ‘Leaders of conservation thought’, but it also included our must-read update on recent journals, ‘Periodically’, by Bob Kindred MBE.

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IHBC warmly welcomes PCO approval to Petition for Charter

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC) has warmly welcomed the approval from the Privy Council Office (PCO) for the submission of a Petition for Charter following its review of our Memorandum.

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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Signpost: Designing Buildings on ‘What is the UK Centre for Mould Safety?’

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

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The UK Centre for Mould Safety (www.UKCMS.org) launched on 27 September 2025, exactly one month before Awaab’s Law comes into force as part of Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, to ensure landlords are ready for the most significant housing safety reform in a generation.

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IHBC’s ‘Practice (Retrofit)’ Signpost: How RDSAP 10.2 impacts EPC assessments in traditional buildings – an  Engine Shed blog

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: Edinburgh Tenements – Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Energy performance certificates (EPCs) tell us how energy efficient our buildings are, but the way these certificates are generated has changed, reports Moses Jenkins for the Engine Shed.

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IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £289K+ of weekly works: Parish seeks team for GII* church works, to 03/12 & £250+K

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members our exclusive ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with the Director’s tender taster this week a call by an English Parish for a lead on repair and interventions etc. on a Grade II* Church, to 03/12 and £250K+.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (mouldy) doorstep’: ‘Poor’ insulation leaving houses mouldy needs wider investigation, government told

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

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Homeowners saying poor insulation via government schemes left them living in mouldy conditions are calling for a wider investigation, reports BBC News.

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MPs to hold a debate on the 80th anniversary of UNESCO: 18/11

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

On Tuesday 18 November in Westminster Hall, MPs will hold a debate on the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

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THA’s Ecclesiastical Heritage Heroes 2025: Nominations Open to 30/11

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The Heritage Alliance (THA) is calling for nominations for the Ecclesiastical Heritage Heroes Awards 2025, an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the sector’s invaluable voluntary workforce, open to 30/11.

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Landscape Institute opens Feasibility Study on ‘Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) Accreditation Scheme’

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The Landscape Institute (LI) is exploring the possibility of creating a dedicated Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) Accreditation Scheme beginning with a Feasibility Study, looking at a formal route to address growing concerns from members on inconsistencies in standards of LVIA.

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Home Builders Federation – ‘State of Play: Challenges and opportunities facing SME home builders’: 89% highlight LA capacity constraints

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The ‘SME State of Play’ report details the findings of one of the most comprehensive surveys of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) housebuilders, conducted by the Home Builders Federation (HBF), Close Brothers Property Finance and Travis Perkins.

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NT’s Cultural Heritage Magazine Autumn/Winter 2025 issue

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

The National Trust (NT) has issued the most recent edition of its Cultural Heritage Magazine (Autumn/Winter 2025).

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: See the Parthenon without scaffolding for the first time in c.200 years

Posted on 14/11/2025 by IHBC

image for illustration: The Parthenon in Athens by Steve Swayne, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Only recently has scaffolding been removed that has partially obscured the western façade of the Parthenon for the past two decades, resulting in a ‘purer visual state’ reports Open Culture.

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IHBC Toolbox’s latest Guidance Note update now out: ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’

Posted on 11/11/2025 by IHBC

The IHBC’s Toolbox resource has had its latest Guidance Note update, on ‘Local Planning Authorities in England on Consulting the National Amenity Societies’, issued as a reminder to ‘local planning authorities of their statutory duty under the 2015 Direction’.

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