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- IHBC updates members on Charter progress… IHBC Council review of draft texts due in coming weeks, details TBC 13/11/2026
- IHBC is planning for growth, with CP30 and more, so grow with us on Board, Committee, Branches, Panels or Groups and more as suits – just let us know! 13/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 13/11/2026
- IHBC Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 13/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: Home insulation schemes could be underestimating heat loss, new research finds 13/11/2026
- IHBC Director’s top pick from HESPR’s £68M+ works: BID seeks multidisciplinary team to study local retail areas, to 20/11 and £40K 13/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (maritime) doorstep’: Heritage Group explores cultural heritage and the historic environment within estuarine and coastal habitat restoration activities 13/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Grand Designs showcases London’s extraordinary Cloud House 13/11/2026
- ‘True scale of heritage’s role in Welsh jobs, economy and communities’ – 18000 Jobs + £738Mn 13/11/2026
- Historic England Reveals its Heritage at Risk Register 2026 13/11/2026
- The Reuse Policy Playbook: A Retrofit-First Guide for Local Authorities 13/11/2026
- HBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: The roles of heritage when the world changes, from ICOMOS GA2026, Malaysia 13/11/2026
- IHBC takes key step forward in Parliamentary ‘5 Commitments’ delivery, joining National Federation of Builders’ National Heritage Skills Forum 10/11/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 10/11/2026
- Save the Date for #IHBCBristolBath2027 – Accessible, Certified CPD on ‘Climate Change & Significance’, June 10-12 2027: IHBC’s Annual School, with online options, free pre-conference webinars & more… 10/11/2026
- Bursaries now open for IHBC Annual School 2027: Accessible, certified CPD on Climate Change & Significance 10/11/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD signpost: Deregulated housing conversions linked to poor health and wellbeing, from UCL 10/11/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: The Guardian on Clifton Suspension Bridge… ‘A big responsibility’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Back on track as Leas Lift carriages return home 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: New Visitor Levy fund to help futureproof Edinburgh’s cultural and heritage buildings 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: National Railway Museum celebrates start of construction on… the Porterbrook gallery 10/11/2026
- Nominate a building for the 20th edition of the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list, before 4 January 10/11/2026
- National Trust: ‘Landmark act of generosity secures home of London’s oldest restaurant for the future’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: ‘Preserving Legacies Climate Heritage Cohort Program’, open to 8 January, ‘…work with a place that is culturally significant to your community’ 10/11/2026
- IHBC offers advice and support in roll out of ‘Historic Environment Policy for Northern Ireland’ 06/11/2026
Consultation on Scottish skills requirements for energy efficiency etc
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More than £18 million awarded in final grants from first round of Culture Recovery Fund
Government has announced that 22 heritage organisations and 33 independent cinemas are the latest to receive support from the Culture Recovery Fund.
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Town halls to seize empty shops to put them back to use, under Labour plans to revive high streets
Town halls would be able to seize empty shops and bring them back into use, under Labour plans to revive decaying high streets. Continue reading
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Scotland’s Churches Trust: Survey invitation to helping ‘Sustain our Places of Worship’
The Scotland’s Churches Trust (SCT) has launched a survey to assist raise the profile of the work of the Trust.
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DfT taskforce sticks by claim Hammersmith Bridge could reopen in spring
The Department for Transport’s (DfT) Hammersmith Bridge taskforce has doubled down on its previous assertion that the embattled Victorian structure could be partially reopened, to pedestrians and cyclists, as early as April, once ongoing inspections of the western pedestals is completed.
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IHBC eligible members: Vote by proxy to keep costs down and pace up at the IHBC’s General Meeting 26/03
Eligible members of the IHBC are strongly encouraged to use proxy votes for the Special Resolution at the forthcoming General Meeting (GM) on 26 March, and help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’, while keeping up the discussions and the costs down!
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IHBC’s ‘members only’ first new Council: Free online CPD and a chance to shape our future – 26 March, from c.1.45pm (after the General Meeting)
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General Meeting AND/OR Council HERE
IHBC Chair David McDonald said: ‘Trustees have decided to take early advantage of our new constitutional arrangements to host together the first General Meeting of 2021 and our first new Council, with both open and free to IHBC members of all categories.’ Continue reading
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Last chance approaches for IHBC’s Marsh Award nominations: Celebrating the achievements of active and civic ‘retired IHBC members’
The closing date approaches for the IHBC’s Marsh Award for community contributions by retired members of the IHBC, with a prize that includes £500 and a free place at the IHBC’s Brighton 2021 Annual School, and with nominations closing on 31 March.
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REMINDER: IHBC’s FREE CPD Taster: John Edwards on ‘Introducing Building Survey for Retrofit’, 29/03, 1pm-2pm
John Edwards, IHBC Technical Panel Chair and Trustee, will introduce ‘Building Survey for Retrofit’ to IHBC members in a free stand-alone IHBC CPD certified 1-hour session that also serves as a taster for fee-based IHBC CPD programmes previously delayed by the pandemic.
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BBC Northern Ireland TV ‘Restoration Rescue’ series seeks UK suggestions, via the IHBC Chair
The IHBC network has been ask to help a TV production company in Belfast to suggest stories of home restorations from across the UK.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £330K+ costed works: Welsh Council seeks QS for museum redevelopment, closing 22/03
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick features a call from Welsh Council for a Quantity Surveyor (QS) to help redevelop a local Museum, closing 22 March. Continue reading
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Budget and building, ex. DBW
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s open-access Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has posted an update on the Budget from 3 March 2021….
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Builders’ Budget plea: cut VAT on home repairs, says FMB and RICS
A VAT cut on home improvement works from 20% to 5% for a temporary five year period would generate a huge economic stimulus, new research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).suggests.
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Network Rail seeks engineering apprentices in the Highlands
Network Rail has launched an appeal for applications to become engineering apprentices in Inverness and Helmsdale in the Highlands.
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New RTPI mentoring programme opens: Closing 8/03
A pilot version of the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI’s) new mentoring programme, called NURTURE and providing ‘structured, professional mentoring’ for 25 of its members ; looking to advance in their career and be successful in a senior role’ will close to applications on 8 March.
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CIC: Industry mega-poll for building professionals to track impact of PI insurance crisis
Building professionals from across the industry, are being invited to take part in the Construction Leadership Council’s biggest ever review of UK’s construction industry’s growing professional indemnity insurance crisis.
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139-Year-Old Victorian house moves through San Francisco
The move of a 139 year old Victorian House through the streets of San Francisco drew an excited crowd of onlookers who came out to watch a truck slowly and carefully pull the historic house through the streets.
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Don’t Forget 1: IHBC’s ‘members only’ first Council and General Meeting of 2021: Free, 26 March, 1pm – eligible members called on to use proxy votes
The IHBC is issuing exclusive invitations and formal notices to IHBC members of ALL categories to the first Council meeting of 2021, from 1pm 26 March, starting with a formal General Meeting vote to support virtual meetings, and with eligible members strongly encouraged to use proxy votes to help the IHBC ‘move past the pandemic’!
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Don’t Forget 2: IHBC joins RIAS and more in Glasgow (virtually) on accreditation, standards, MATEs and more: 22-24 March
The IHBC will offer guidance and feature our celebrated MATE programme at a Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) 3-day online Conference on ‘Your Career in Conservation’, all aimed at ‘anyone working, or interested in working, within the building and heritage sectors’, alongside CARE, ICON, RIAS and RICS, and with fees from £30. Continue reading
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DBW Newsletter features IHBC’s 2020 Yearbook Ian Baxter on: ‘Cities, Heritage, Tourism…’ to 11K+ users
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki and the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has featured the IHBC’s 2020 Yearbook article on heritage and tourism by Prof Ian Baxter – a member of the IHBC’s Education Committee –in its bi-weekly Newsletter to its 11K circulation list.
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IHBC Research Signpost: ‘Levelling up’ with Mind the Gap – On construction projects and people
New research by recruiting agency Randstad, ‘Mind the Gap’, examines the North-South divide with levelling up in mind, across construction projects and jobs, as output in infrastructure and housebuilding rebounds from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Call for HESPR input to IHBC’s GM and Council, 26 March
The 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’, with news from across the development sector, and this week features the IHBC’s encouragement to HESPR members to contribute to the upcoming General Meeting and first Council under the new articles.
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Historic England’s new advice note: ‘Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage’
Historic England has published a new edition of its advice note on how local heritage listing and local heritage lists can be formally identified as part of the wider range of designation so that they can be taken into account in planning applications.
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CLC Professional Indemnity Insurance Survey: Closing 12 March
The Construction Leaders Council(CLC) seeks help to complete a survey on Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII), closing 12 March.
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New SPAB Chair: Nicola Tasker
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings(SPAB) is delighted to announce our new SPAB Chair, Nichola Tasker, who brings a wealth of organisational knowledge to the role with her experience as a SPAB Trustee and much more.
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