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The IHBC has been contacted by a TV production company called Curve Media to highlight its search for feature ‘rescues’ for a new primetime series it is producing for the Discovery Channel, with the working title ‘Heritage Rescue’, to be fronted by Nick Knowles.

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Following calls from IHBC Recognised Conservation Courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award has been extended to 31 August 2020, so relevant coursework from history and theory to practice or enhancement, submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate from 2019 OR 2020 – can be submitted online for a chance to receive a cash prize and participate in the IHBC’s next Annual School, #IHBCBrighton2021.

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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 members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Building on how ‘Critics wade into Jenrick’s planning reforms’.

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Recently, Edinburgh Live asked its Facebook followers to nominate ‘eyesore’ buildings that they would most like to see demolished in the capital, and hundreds of people replied, though as one of them hasn’t even been built yet, Edinburgh Live is not entirely sure how that will work.

image: By Kim Traynor – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21191703

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If you would you like an architectural conservation knowledge challenge, check out the history of housing and the changes over time in Dublin in the article by the City Council’s heritage officer, Charles Duncan, in issue 163 of Context, which looks at the role of conservation plans, temporary cultural uses and pop-up theatre, as well as the principles which underly successful repair, conservation and restoration.

image: Context 163, p15 – Dublin CC by  Paul Tierney

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The IHBC has issued its latest ‘CPD Circular’, with post-lockdown event planning content that includes the IHBC’s own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) support, the ‘IHBC Recognised CPD Providers’ CPD service, as well as Denkmal, one of Europe’s largest trade shows for skills and products in conservation, restoration, and renovation of historic buildings. Continue reading →

IHBC members are reminded that applications to the Heritage Fund’s £92m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, which offers grants from £10,000 to £3million, close on 17 August.

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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 top pick this week features an Ulster County Council’s (CC) competition call for a design concept for a civic building and its setting, closing 4 September.

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You may own ‘a Pevsner’ or two, or more, to help you with your architectural conservation and history, but did you know that a lunch with Nikolaus Pevsner in a Westminster pub in the spring of 1967 led to the ‘Buildings of Ireland’ publications programme, as series lead Prof. Alistair Rowan – Adam authority and former Principal at Edinburgh College of Art – recounts in his own fascinating, personal history, from issue 163 of Context.

image: Context 163, p18, Alistair Rowan

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