Booking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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Adaptation reports to Defra by the heritage sector are part of the fourth round of the adaptation reporting process under the Climate Change 2008 Act, and examine how heritage regulators and operators are taking action to adapt to climate change.
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Designing Buildings – IHBC’s host partner host for our dynamic Conservation Wiki – has published a personal account of attendance at a Conservation Training Course.
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From vacant historic properties to new homes, there is an opportunity to provide 560,000 – 670,000 new homes in England by repairing and repurposing existing historic buildings.
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The House of Lords Built Environment Committee has launched a modular inquiry into new towns and expanded settlements, taking evidence to 12 May 2025.
Continue readingThe pilot version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard has launched.
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Heritage Open Days calls on all to ‘join the amazing network of local organisers across the country… register with us online… we’re only a phone call or an email away’.
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Dr Eric Lybeck argues that problems with restoration timelines aren’t just cautionary – they’re symptomatic of a deeper crisis: the lack of heritage skills in the UK.
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The IHBC knows that the wellbeing of those working and volunteering in the heritage sector is vital to its sustainability and success, so to better understand the current state of staff wellbeing, the Institute has launched a new ‘Heritage Staff Wellbeing at Work’ survey for professionals and volunteers across the sector (closing 1 May).
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The IHBC is has agreed a 10% discount for all members on West Dean’s celebrated and specialist Conservation courses (see terms, conditions and code below).
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Following on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to the school theme of ‘Heritage in Context’, all open to everyone and free to attend, and all supporting #IHBCShrewsbury2025.
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‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ is a joint ICOMOS-UK and University of Liverpool hybrid event supported by the IHBC and with three main themes: Forging partnerships…; Navigating… heritage sustainability, and Education and skills…, all on 11 April.
Continue readingBooking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
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IHBC’s learning-led Council offers unique access to IHBC-certified skills and insights for Conservation Professionals – accredited, aspiring and otherwise – and our first blended Council offered a flurry of business catch-ups, with special insights and answers from IHBC’s Aimée Felton on challenges and plans for London’s Charterhouse.
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Designing Buildings, host partner to IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, reports on BS 9991 ‘2024 Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice’ was published on 27 November 2024 to replace BS 9991:2015 ‘Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings’.
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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 Designing Buildings (DB) on the ICOMOS-UK blended Sustainability conference, ‘… Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ (11/04) and IHBC’s ‘Concerns… over the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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A ramp built in the centre of Charlotte Square has prompted questions from locals and criticism from Edinburgh World Heritage, notes The Edinburgh Reporter.
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The House of Commons Public Bill Committee is calling for expertise, experience and/or special interest input as evidence for its consideration of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, currently passing through Parliament, with its first meeting on 24 April.
Continue readingFive new members have joined the Small Charities Advisory Panel (SCAP), led by The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), strengthening its role in advocating for the needs of small charities.
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Ireland’s ‘Women in Construction Awards’ is hosting its Awards Night 2025 on June 6, 2025, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, Dublin.
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To connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so sign up for free alerts, and telling your boss about our targeted subsidies for adverts, outlined below, helps your prospects too!
Continue readingFollowing on from the launch of the 2025 Annual School and the linked pre-conference CPD in Redruth on 13 March, the IHBC is delighted to announce a series of online lunchtime webinars across a variety of topics that relate to the school theme of ‘Heritage in Context’, all open to everyone and free to attend, and all supporting #IHBCShrewsbury2025.
Continue readingBooking is now open for the IHBC’s 2025 Annual School – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – in wonderful Shrewsbury, on 12-14 June, centred on our hybrid (in-person & Virtual) Day School (13 June), with certified IHBC CPD, exhibitors, pre-conference webinars, networking & more
Continue reading‘Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability’ is a joint ICOMOS-UK and University of Liverpool hybrid event supported by the IHBC and with three main themes: Forging partnerships…; Navigating… heritage sustainability, and Education and skills…, all on 11 April.
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The winners of the IHBC Gus Astley Student Awards for 2024 have been selected by guest judge Nathan Baker, former CEO of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), with winners offered free places at the Annual School in Shrewsbury – #IHBCShrewsbury2025 – and cash prizes.
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