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IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards guest judge for 2021 Ian Morrison OBE, Historic England, has chosen two winners in this #IHBC25 anniversary year, with India Wright (Middle Temple) and Laura Long (Hempcrete) entering work from IHBC-Recognised conservation courses in Cambridge and York.

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To help link employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, we update IHBC NewsBlogs etc. readers on the diverse opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, as this round highlights familiar employment matters, so sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service!

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After morning welcomes and sessions that include Griff Rhys Jones (video) and more, the IHBC’s Aberdeen Day School (17/06) examines ‘old heritage’ that faces new pressures, including ‘Tools and standards’ for sustainable conservation; a ‘Masterplanning’ case study of Aberdeen’s centre, and a Gaia-take on ‘Good Ideas and their Design Impacts’, all ranging across the spectrum of the IHBC’s Areas of Competence.

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IHBC welcomes the next ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites, on April 18, and in this #IHBC25 anniversary year themed on Heritage and Climate.

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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s ‘double up’ pick for #IHBC25 features calls from a Borough Council (BC) for settlement analysis (25/04; £40K) and for project support from a World Heritage Site (WHS) lead (04/05; £4M).

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York’s Clifford’s Tower has reopened to the public for the first time since before the pandemic, reports York Press.

image: for illustration purposes only – Clifford’s Tower by DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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Taking the ‘right to repair’ one step further, a Viennese repair bonus is going national — and keeping thousands of items out of the junkyard.

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After welcomes that include Griff Rhys Jones (video), the second session of the IHBC’s Aberdeen Day School on 17 June targets issues around ‘new heritage’: the nuclear industry; modernism and communities, and the ‘challenging’ heritage of the fossil fuel era of oil, and ranging across all the IHBC’s Areas of Competence.

image: Aberdeen Town House & Toll Booth – Aberdeen City Heritage Trust

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To prep for the Aberdeen School in June, 2 free IHBC ‘pre-School’ events are on offer: Scotland Branch’s online talk by Miles Glendinning on ‘mass housing…’ on 20 April, and Day School speaker John Edwards on the IHBC Toolbox ‘Retrofit Guidance’ on 3 May.

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Bursaries for the Aberdeen 2022 School are still available, supported by the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund, so if you think you deserve one, apply now!

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The IHBC has responded to the Government Response (DEFRA) to the Glover Landscapes Review on National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), noting that in practice AONBs are not treated in the same manner as National Parks or Conservation Areas.

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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  the Agora Journal’s notice on works by a HESPR member on St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, alongside our #IHBC25 silver anniversary launch.

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A developer has appealed the decision by Glasgow City Council to reject plans to transform the city’s landmark Lyceum Cinema into a cinema, concert hall and restaurant.

image: for illustration purposes only – By Lynn M Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13406873

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After welcomes from Griff Rhys Jones and others, the first session of the IHBC’s Day School on 17 June focusses on the IHBC’s ‘Management’ Area of Competence, with the Chief Executive (CE) of South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands, on ‘Managing places’ on the edge of the globe, CE of The Circular Way on ‘heritage and the circular economy’, and Scotland’s own Miles Oglethorpe on ‘Aberdeen before and after ‘peak oil’…’.

image: Fiona Newton

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To prep for the Aberdeen School in June, 2 free IHBC ‘pre-School’ events are on offer: Scotland Branch’s online talk by Miles Glendinning on ‘mass housing…’ on 20 April, and Day School speaker John Edwards on the IHBC Toolbox ‘Retrofit Guidance’ on 3 May.

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Bursaries for the Aberdeen 2022 School are still available, supported by the IHBC’s CREATIVE Conservation Fund, so if you think you deserve one, apply now!

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The IHBC has submitted its response to the Welsh Government’s proposals for the next iteration of the Warm Homes Programme, welcoming the principle of eradicating fuel poverty but suggesting reasonable provision be made for historic and traditional buildings.

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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from District Councils for area assessments, closing 29/04 and valued up to £30K.

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