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Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ service helps diverse disciplines, levels and sectors, from St Paul’s Cathedral estate to Cadw works supervision, & inter-governmental heritage care to historic railway business

To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers on the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £8.2M+ of weekly works: BC seeks multi-disciplinary team for design code, to 17/02 & £200K

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 Borough Council (BC) for a … Continue reading

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Blenheim Palace gets annual deep clean before £10.4m roof restoration

image for illustration: Blenheim Palace by DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A monumental £10.4M undertaking is underway to preserve Britain’s Greatest Palace’s historic architecture and safeguard its heritage for future generations, as Blenheim Palace has announced that its … Continue reading

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IHBC looks back on Context 181 (Part 2): Special Features update, from coal tar to Blue Plaques and climate impacts, for insightful and accessible learning and CPD

With the new issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context now out, did you work through all of our earlier number – Issue No. 181 – which boasted feature articles on topics ranging from wood and coal tar to Blue Plaques … Continue reading

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IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025

The IHBC is delighted to offer free entry for our members to the Listed Property Owners Club’s (LPOC) annual London Listed Property Show, on 31 January-1 February in London’s Olympia (pre-booking essential), with stands still available.

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IHBC ‘Research’ Signpost: Historic England’s Heritage Indicator Data update – Part of Heritage Counts

image for illustration: Peter Badcock Each year, Heritage Counts collates datasets about a range of indicators that provide useful insights into the state of the historic environment with, in most cases, the indicators having been collected since 2002.

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LA conservation jobs in England: ‘Market Intelligence’ Research Note from IHBC’s 2024 ‘Jobs etc.’ posts,via our ToolBox

The IHBC’s first Research Note (RN) for 2025 (RN2025/1) has been posted on the IHBC’s ToolBox, offering our annual update on ‘Market Intelligence’ on England’s local authority (LA) conservation-related posts from our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service.

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £50K+ of weekly works: National heritage body seeks research linked to regeneration, to 23/01 & £20K

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 national heritage body for … Continue reading

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Council aims to go beyond net zero by removing carbon emissions

image for illustration Oxfordshire County Council has become the first local authority in the UK to set a target of going beyond net zero when it comes to carbon emissions.

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IHBC’s first ‘CPD Circular’ for 2025: For cost-conscious and time-sensitive conservation learning… events, awards, calls and more (with pictures & review too!)

IHBC’s new CPD Circular offers our current listing of accessible, cost-effective ‘Continuing Professional Development’ (CPD) opportunities for historic and built environment conservation professionals and their networks, with the usual range of Branch and network events, publications, awards and more.

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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: AJ features ‘’A ‘boon for landfill’… buildings we lost in 2024’

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 the Architects’ Journal (AJ) on ‘A ‘boon for landfill’… seven … Continue reading

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Government’s National Buildings Database – A ‘detailed inventory of all the buildings in Great Britain’, including energy performance

The government is developing a detailed inventory of all the buildings in Great Britain, including all domestic buildings (houses and flats) and non-domestic buildings (offices, shops, warehouses, schools, hospitals etc.) and include information such as the size, age, construction and … Continue reading

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IHBC’s first Councils for 2025, with targeted CPD for all members: · 21 January – virtual, with Conall Doherty on ‘… Structural engineering in Ireland’ · 24 March, blended Council, London Charterhouse, welcoming new President Rebecca Thompson

IHBC’s next free online Council CPD, exclusive to all IHBC member categories, includes ‘A Wonderful Barn, a Fort and a Gaol: Structural engineering in Ireland’ with Conall Doherty, while the following Council, on 24 March, will be blended, from London’s … Continue reading

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IHBC’s ‘Policy’ Signpost: FuturHist’s ‘Policy Framework’ on European Policies for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings

FuturHist, a project co-funded by the European Union and the UK Research and Innovation that aims to develop replicable retrofit solutions for historic buildings of the future, has produce its first report on the ‘Policy Framework: An Overview of European … Continue reading

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IHBC’s ‘Director’s pick’ from HESPR’s £1.2M+ of weekly works: Scottish Trust calls for Conservation Architect-led team for project, to 24/01 & £170K

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 Scottish Trust for a … Continue reading

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CITB: Net Zero industry toolkit

CITB – The Construction Industry Training Board – has created a toolkit for all professionals in the construction industry designed to make information surrounding skills, training, regulations and future requirements surrounding net zero accessible, easy to understand and in a … Continue reading

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HE updates on ‘Heritage and the Environment’ in Heritage Counts

image for illustration: Joanna Theobald Historic England (HE) has updated its Heritage Counts resource with new articles on evidence of the impact of the historic environment on the environment, with content including climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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Consultation on ‘Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings’ regime, to 26/02

image for illustration The Government has issued a consultation on changes to Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), Display Energy Certificates (DECs), and air conditioning inspection reports (ACIRs), closing 26 February 2025. [applies to England & Wales]

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.4: Engine Shed & HES on ‘Preserving trades across the pond… top 6 takeaways’

‘What can we learn from building conservation practices in the USA, and what can they learn from our practices in Scotland?’ asks the Engine Shed, as Craft Fellows Cat Hotchkiss and Gordon Muir reported back from the International Preservation Trades … Continue reading

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.5: Join the IHBC’s next virtual Council with free CPD, open to all IHBC members: Tuesday 21 January, 4pm, includes ‘transferable lessons for all practitioners’

All categories of IHBC members – Supporters, Affiliates, Associates and Full Members – are invited to join the IHBC’s next free online Council for more relevant and topical CPD.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.7: Cadw Governance Review advances as Cadw & RCAHMW advance Working Group

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 Following a Cadw Governance Review in 2023 recommending a review of the Cadw/RCAHMW relationship, and a 2024 government call ‘to look closely at… functions and responsibilities and identify synergies’, the new Working Group … Continue reading

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.11:National Highways & Natural England sign agreement to strengthen environmental impact

image for illustration: A417 by Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0 National Highways and Natural England have signed a landmark agreement to support the delivery of world-class national infrastructure whilst ensuring better outcomes for the environment.

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IHBC looks ahead to 2025 No.14: Planning proposals get Britain building and turn the tide on nature’s decline

image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0 A new approach to development and the environment will boost the number of homes being built, as developers will be able to pay into a new Nature Restoration Fund to meet their environmental … Continue reading

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IHBC’s Christmas boost to Branch Committees’ infrastructure: Director’s first introductions to new ‘Branch Liaison & Support Consultants’

The IHBC’s Director Seán O’Reilly has written to representative Branch Committee Officers with initial introductions and contacts details for the new Branch Liaison and Support Consultants (BL&SC), our new way to help volunteers.

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IHBC welcomes HB&P’s digital 2024 Centenary issue of ‘Heritage Now’, including Edward Holland IHBC (& HESPR) on the ‘Village Alive Trust’

image: ‘A general view of Llanarth Church’ (top) ‘Croft Barn, Interior after restoration’, (bottom) – photos by Edward Holland Historic Buildings & Places (HB&P, formerly the Ancient Monuments Society) has issued a special digital issue of its Winter 2024 Heritage … Continue reading

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