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The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has voiced its concerns about the ‘ongoing practice’ in the construction sector, of ‘industry-approved forms of contract being amended by clients and their solicitors to introduce terms that are onerous and/or difficult to insure’.
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The Faith Museum at Auckland Palace – until recently the residence of the Bishops of Durham – by Níall McLaughlin Architects, has won the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust Building Beauty Awards 2024, with others including Coroner’s Court Extension, hotel conversion and a viaduct!
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2024 winner of the National Heritage Ironwork Group (NHIG) Award for Heritage Metalwork Conservation announced
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COP29 has concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan following two weeks of fraught negotiations, reports Climate Heritage Network (CHN), with tense disagreements over the COP’s signature issue of climate finance and outcomes whose adequacy is hotly disputed.
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Fully funded training in the retrofit of traditional and historic buildings is now available in Wales, achieving the Level 3 award qualification, delivered by the Environment Study Centre and presented by IHBC Technical Panel Chair Professor John Edwards.
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British Geological Survey research, commissioned by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), reveals an opportunity to re-establish the Scottish building stone market in order to maintain the country’s historic 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 Building on the ‘What lessons can be learnt from the ‘M&S decision’?
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An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports Salford Now
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has referenced plans for a ‘place-based philanthropy strategy’ during a meeting of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
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HE is designing our training programme for the next 2 years and wants your help to refresh their understanding of training priorities.
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Planning decisions in England are set to be fast-tracked in a sweeping overhaul of local planning committees, as part of new measures to tackle the housing crisis, according to government.
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Dr Christopher Turner, curator of ‘Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence’, reports on the exhibition for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum (CHF).
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With the new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context now out, did you work all the way through our last one – Issue No. 181 – and the many facets of urban housing, design, conservation and use, with lessons on ‘innovative ways to create successful, resource-efficient housing in… difficult settings’?
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The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a Council for a multi-disciplinary consultancy for a lottery-linked project, to 15/01 and valued £240K.
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Flat owners – including artist Tracey Emin – are rejoicing after a controversial plan to replace the windows of an ‘iconic’ tower block at Arlington House in Margate was quashed by Thanet District Council (DC), writes Kentonline.
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Network Rail has started a £3.4m project this month to repair the iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct in the Scottish Highlands, to ‘future-proof’ the category A-listed bridge for generations.
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The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which sets out government’s planning policies for England and how these are expected to be applied, has been issued.
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The Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal has introduced a Collections Conservation Dynamic Purchasing System to help the conservation sector’s role in preserving its heritage, open to 10/01 (initial applications), live from February 2025.
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Glasgow’s Burrell Collection has been named today as the winner of the Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award following a major refurbishment by John McAslan + Partners
Continue readingHistoric England (HE) seeks 3 new Commissioners – Conservation Architect; Finance/Risk & Property Development, to £4133 p.a @ 12 days p.a., closing 10/01/25.
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An overhaul of the planning system to accelerate housebuilding and deliver 1.5 million homes over this Parliament, Government reports.
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In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks of using ‘AI for Good,’ which isn’t just an ideal, but also the name of a lab at Microsoft. Microsoft and Ubelman’s digital-preservation company.
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Kathryn Davies’ Artisan Art: Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550–1650 is a revised & updated edition (August 2024) of the original 2008 edition.
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