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- IHBC’s newest ‘Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’, with updates for local volunteer leads: Part 3 – Parliamentary Commitments to conclusions 09/10/2026
- IHBC welcomes new findings from joint Arts Culture & Heritage Project: ‘… to better articulate the economic, social and cultural value of arts, culture and heritage’ 09/10/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 09/10/2026
- CLOSING SOON: IHBC’s WM Branch to join West Midlands Heritage Careers Fair 2026: ‘Inspiring the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals’, 21/10, Worcester Cathedral 09/10/2026
- CLOSING SOON: IHBC consults on ‘Corporate Plan 2026-30’ (‘CP30’): Feedback sought by 30 October 09/10/2026
- Join in IHBC-sponsored SAHGB’s 3rd Mark Girouard symposium : ‘Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish Architectural History’, 14 November 09/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ & ‘Research’ CPD spotlight: Using the AHRC Commercialisation Strategy and impact guidance, from UKRI 09/10/2026
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £2.3Mn new weekly costed works: City BID partnership seeks concept proposals for 3 ‘transformations’ of key locations, to 1/11, @ £500 each 09/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic Grade II-listed Ugly House in Wales fails to sell at auction 09/10/2026
- In landmark 50th year AHF awards its 1000th loan 09/10/2026
- Skills England launches Skills For Work programme consultation: to 16 October 09/10/2026
- National Heat Risk Commission – call for evidence – to 30/10 09/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Frank McDonald obituary – campaigning journalist changed how Ireland thinks about urban planning 09/10/2026
- Heritage Network’s Chair Alice Ullathorne IHBC marks success of first year in post at Network’s 2026 NI Belfast conference, with IHBC as exhibitors & members 06/10/2026
- IHBC opens consultation on ‘Corporate Plan 2026-30’ (‘CP30’): Feedback sought by 30 October 06/10/2026
- IHBC Marsh Awards NOW OPEN: Nominate your ‘Successful learner’ (in Heritage Skills) or ‘Retired member’ (Community Contributions), to close 15 December 2026 06/10/2026
- IHBC welcomes RICHeS Access Fund second call, opening 14/09 – ‘access… cutting-edge equipment, collections & expertise’, to £20K, for charities, social enterprises, commercial companies etc. 06/10/2026
- IHBC’s WM Branch to join West Midlands Heritage Careers Fair 2026: ‘Inspiring the Next Generation of Heritage Professionals’, 21/10, Worcester Cathedral 06/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: Scotland’s heritage delivers benefits far beyond tourism, new evidence shows 06/10/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ CPD Signpost: New national research sets out what is needed to sustain cathedral craft skills 06/10/2026
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: NCE on ‘Ireland’s infrastructure threatened by climate change’ 06/10/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (trust) doorstep’: A house that changed architecture: Richard +?Su Rogers’s modernist masterpiece given to the nation 06/10/2026
- Community groups invited to apply for funding to bring people together, with next wave of Common Ground Award… ‘up to £2.5m’ 06/10/2026
- New Chair elected by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee 06/10/2026
- Historic England on ‘The Public Value of Archaeology’ 06/10/2026
Tag Archives: decarbonisation
IHBC welcomes new Heritage Counts research for HE on ‘Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Embodied Carbon Payback Times’
image: Mayville Community Centre, Justin Bere, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The IHBC has welcomed the new Heritage Counts research from Historic England (HE) on ‘Retrofitting Traditional Buildings: Embodied Carbon Payback Times’.
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Tagged adaptive reuse, decarbonisation, embodied carbon, research, retrofit
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The Carbon Trust, on ‘Accelerating access to clean, reliable and affordable energy’
How can communities and businesses across emerging economies harness the economic benefits of distributed renewable energy?
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Tagged business, decarbonisation, economics, heritage
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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Heritage (DBTH) Toolkit
The Decarbonizing the Built Environment through Heritage Toolkit aims to support policymakers, practitioners, communities, and heritage advocates in accelerating the rapid uptake of heritage-informed decarbonization strategies through policy.
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Tagged built environment, careers, cpd, decarbonisation, heritage, learning, skills
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £500m retrofit boost for UK universities as Lloyds partners with National Wealth Fund
The National Wealth Fund and Lloyds Banking Group announce major new financing initiative to retrofit universities across the UK.
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Tagged climate change, decarbonisation, environment, funding, retrofit, universities
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UKGBC calls for urgent action on retrofit and energy optimisation in new reports
UK Green Buildings Council’s (UKGBC) latest reports call for action to cut emissions from the UK’s commercial building stock through retrofit and energy optimisation.
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Tagged building, construction, decarbonisation, retrofit
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RICS and global partners launch CLEAR to align whole-life carbon reporting across built environment
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched the Coalition for Life Cycle Emissions Alignment and Reporting (CLEAR), a global initiative to harmonise the measurement and reporting of whole-life carbon emissions.
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Tagged carbon, climage change, decarbonisation, environment, RICS
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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS), v.1 & consultation
image for illustration: Palace of Westminster from the dome on Methodist Central Hall, © User: Colin / Wikimedia Commons The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS) is a voluntary standard, derived from ‘an unprecedented collaborative effort’, that is applicable to new … Continue reading
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Tagged buildings, decarbonisation, net zero, NZCBS
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HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc.
Arts Council England (ACE) and Historic England (HE) have launched online resources for their Cultural and Heritage Sector Decarbonisation Project Pilot, to ‘support cultural and heritage organisations responsible for historic buildings [to] better understand… decarbonisation plans.’
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Tagged culture, decarbonisation, digital resource, guidance, heritage
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