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- Check out IHBC’s new-style ‘CPD Circular’ & feed back: With ‘at-a-glance colour coding’, Director’s CPD Spotlight (ICOMOS-CIF 2026, Granada, 11-13/03), simpler format & more 09/01/2026
- IHBC celebrates SAHGB 2025 Annual Awards, including SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success at HESPR member Donald Insall Associates 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 30-31 Jan 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 09/01/2026
- Designing Building enhances access to 20K+ articles, for all users as graphic links to ‘Construction Knowledge Hubs’ now aid navigation 09/01/2026
- IHBC’s Research Signpost: Heritage Open Days Festival Impact Review 2025 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Private Eye) doorstep’: Nooks & Corners on the ‘nation’s worsening shortage of heritage skills’ 09/01/2026
- Architectural Heritage Fund publishes Annual Review 2024/25 09/01/2026
- Scotland’s ‘Properties and Collections Strategy: Towards Sustainable Stewardship’ consultation draft out, open to 23/01 09/01/2026
- CITB announces changes to funding and grants 09/01/2026
- Scottish Government scheme launched: Finding new owners for empty homes 09/01/2026
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: CyArk’s Heritage Amplified Grant (Engaging New Audiences …) and Heritage Documentation Training Grant (Empowering Cultural Preservation) to 23/01 & 30/01 09/01/2026
- IHBC welcomes award of OBE to IHBC Chair David McDonald: An ‘extraordinary’ person… 02/01/2026
- IHBC Chair updates on 2026 AGM, calls for proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & booking – 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO Claudia Kenyatta CBE, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 02/01/2026
- REMINDER: Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s Annual School ‘Save the Date’ notice & Home Page launch: IHBC’s 2026 Newcastle School, 18-20 June, on ‘Adaptive Reuse’ & up to 20 hours CPD – accessible, interdisciplinary, cost-effective 02/01/2026
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 02/01/2026
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ spans disciplines, levels & sectors as interdisciplinary conservation practice standards deliver public benefit 02/01/2026
- Lodge your IHBC proxy vote (accredited members only) ASAP & book your online place (members only) for IHBC’s 2026 AGM, 7 January 2026, featuring HE’s co-CEO, from 5.30pm, with 6pm AGM 30/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes latest engineers’ CARE guidance for assessing proposed heritage demolition/partial demolition in UK & Ireland 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Save the Date’ notice for all Branch Committees: Have your say at our next online Branch Connection Event, 22 January 2025, 2pm – 4pm 30/12/2025
- IHBC issues formal notice for 2026 AGM, online on 7 January 2026, from 5.30pm (with special presentation!) for 6pm start 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, with ‘A carbon case for indigenous slate’ 30/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Professional’ Signpost: Scotland’s APRS – Full Report on ‘Battery Energy Storage Systems and Planning’ 30/12/2025
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Context 184 under the spotlight: IHBC’s accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, on ‘Discovering Jane Jacobs’
image: Jane Jacobs by Rob Cowan for IHBC Context 184 IHBC’s members’ journal Context in June 2025 – No. 184 – focussed on ‘Leaders of conservation thought’ included Joe Holyoak on ‘Discovering Jane Jacobs’.
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Tagged building, conservation, expertise, heritage, innovation, reuse
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: Understanding innovation and investment in DCMS sectors
Government UK has issued research by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) into understanding investment, innovation and productivity in DCMS sectors.
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IHBC’s Research Signpost: UKRI – New fund will focus research investment on local priorities
image for illustration UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) reports that an allocation of at least £30 million for each of 10 regions across the UK will set local experts at the heart of research and innovation investment, to grow local … Continue reading
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Tagged business, community, expertise, funding, innovation, partnership, research, skills
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HE: Uncovering local history hidden on our streets
image for illustration: Joanna Theobald We are surrounded by historic designs and constructions that were initially invented for everyday purposes says Historic England (HE), and the details and tiny variations of these objects can help tell what was happening in … Continue reading
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Tagged building, community, heritage, innovation
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University of the Built Environment: UCEM’s new name for merged London School of Architecture (LSA) and University College of Estate Management
UCEM’s new institutional name, following a merger with the London School of Architecture (LSA), has been announced as the University of the Built Environment.
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Tagged architecture, building, collaboration, environment, innovation, learning, planning, sustainability, university
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IHBC Signpost: DBW The Construction Wiki: The Gridshell – what is a gridshell?
image: The British Museum by Seán O’Reilly Designing Buildings Wiki(DBW) traces the history of the gridshell a structure that acts in tension, a lattice frame work or angled grid of individual structural members that are bent to form a shape, … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, building, conservation, construction, engineering, expertise, heritage, history, innovation, skills, structures
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: UK redoubles Horizon push as Kyle forges deeper R&I links with EU
UK Science and Tech Secretary announces renewed push to turbo-charge UK-EU science and technology links, to tackle shared global challenges.
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Tagged conservation, europe, expertise, global, heritage, innovation, science, technology
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