IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Council) doorstep’: Heritage Strategy to protect, preserve & enhance Stirling’s historic assets

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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A strategy to secure the future of Stirling’s historic assets has been approved by Stirling Council.

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RIBA, RTPI, CIOB and RICS call for exemptions to Level 7 apprenticeships changes

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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A joint statement between RIBA, RTPI, CIOB and RICS has called for Built environment Level 7 apprenticeships to be exempt from funding reforms as they are ’vital to help address skills shortages and meet the Government’s growth commitments’.

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HE & partners’ ACHTaxonomies Research Project seeks evidence, participants etc. to ‘articulate the economic value of heritage’

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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The ACHTaxonomiesproject, led by Historic England (HE) and partners, looks to develop a framework and linked taxonomies to better articulate the value of arts, culture and heritage on an economic platform, seeks assistance.

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CLC: Statement on Standard Appointment Terms – Voices concerns at amendments to approved contracts

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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Faith Museum at Auckland Palace by Níall McLaughlin Architects wins Building Beauty Awards among suite of winners for 2024

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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NHIG 2024 Award for Heritage Metalwork Conservation winners announced

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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2024 winner of the National Heritage Ironwork Group (NHIG) Award for Heritage Metalwork Conservation announced

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IHBC features ‘Heritage on the global (COP29) doorstep’ 1: CHN, on culture advocates leaving COP29 with pride in efforts, disappointment in outcomes, as hope turns to COP30 in Brazil

Posted on 20/12/2024 by IHBC

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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IHBC welcomes Free 2 Day Traditional Building Retrofit Course for Wales

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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Don’t forget: IHBC’s HESPR-linked service promotion is now even more accessible to clients when using our map-based search

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC
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IHBC members, colleagues and client bodies can now find the office locations of HESPR members – IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition (HESPR) scheme – using our new map-based facility.

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IHBC’s ‘Research & Finance’ Signposts: British Geological Survey research for HES shows Scotland can re-establish its stone industry

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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 HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: IHBC features Building on the ‘lessons… from M&S decision’

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (public) doorstep’: Campaign to save Centenary Building as site set to be demolished

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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Lisa Nandy announces plans for ‘place-based philanthropy strategy’

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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: Training Needs Analysis

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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Major overhaul of England’s planning committees ‘to get Britain building’

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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AHF Publishes its Annual Review for 2023-24

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

The Architectural heritage Fund (AHF) has issued its Annual Review 2023-24.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Looking back at Tropical Modernism, from CHF

Posted on 17/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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IHBC is ‘looking back’ at Context 181 (Part 1): Explore Urban housing… council housing revied, DH Lawrence’s birthplace, prefabs, gentrification and more

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.2M+ of weekly works: Council seeks evaluation in theatre project, to 15/01 & £240k

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Happy residents (inc. Tracy Emin) as replacement windows refused by Thanet DC

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (railway) doorstep’: Network Rail starts £3.4m iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct repair

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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New NPPF out for England

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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Parliament procurement processes launched: ‘… easier for small businesses, sole traders and micro-companies to bid’; initial applications to 10/01, live from February

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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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The Burrell Collection: Doolan Award – ‘Scotland’s building of the year’

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

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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

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HE seeks 3 Commissioners – Conservation Architect Finance / Risk, Property Development, to £4133 p.a. @ 12 days p.a., closing 10/01/25

Posted on 14/12/2024 by IHBC

Historic 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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