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- IHBC’s Council Update: Looking ahead to business on 24 March – first blended Council – with new (& past) Presidents & Vice Presidents, and looking back, on Irish structural engineering CPD ‘across borders’ 24/01/2025
- 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 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming soon: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case 24/01/2025
- IHBC’s Finance and Economics Signpost:The AHF is investing in the ‘Future of Heritage’ 24/01/2025
- 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 24/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Blenheim Palace gets annual deep clean before £10.4m roof restoration 24/01/2025
- £23M package to support restoration of thousands of listed places of worship 24/01/2025
- World Monuments Fund Announces 2025 Watch: Includes Belfast’s Assembly Rooms… & the Moon! 24/01/2025
- Local authority planning capacity and skills survey: 2023 findings – 97% face skills gaps, 91% struggle with recruitment, & 38% on reduced teams 24/01/2025
- MHCLG seeks ‘Technical independent advisers’ for College of Experts 24/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Global) doorstep’: Trump on ‘PROMOTING BEAUTIFUL FEDERAL CIVIC ARCHITECTURE’ 24/01/2025
- 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 21/01/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Members with benefits’: FREE CPD at London’s LPOC Listed Property Show, Olympia, 31 Jan/01 Feb 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC’s TWO Marsh Awards for 2025: Nominations sought for ‘Successful Learning’ AND/OR ‘Community Contribution (Retired Members) – to 31 March 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC ‘Research’ Signpost: Historic England’s Heritage Indicator Data update – Part of Heritage Counts 21/01/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 AGM is coming soon: To take your membership to a new level, as Trustee, be sure to · Check our guidance · Explore options with us · Sort your CPD · Submit your case 21/01/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Dezeen signposts the 25 most significant 21st century buildings… so far, starting with the Tate Modern 21/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Former St Joseph’s Orphanage site had ‘community protection notice’ served on it 21/01/2025
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) turns 50 21/01/2025
- Reminder: HE & partners’ ACHTaxonomies Research Project seeks evidence, participants etc. to ‘articulate the economic value of heritage’ – open to 30/01 21/01/2025
- Membership of new Creative Industries Taskforce announced 21/01/2025
- CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025 21/01/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global (UK Research) doorstep 2’: UKRI developing new research data policy framework 21/01/2025
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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 ‘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’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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Local authority planning capacity and skills survey: 2023 findings – 97% face skills gaps, 91% struggle with recruitment, & 38% on reduced teams
image for illustration: Open government Licence v3.0 The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published the findings of its first annual survey of local authority planning capacity and skills, and finding that 97% of local authorities face skills … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Global) doorstep’: Trump on ‘PROMOTING BEAUTIFUL FEDERAL CIVIC ARCHITECTURE’
image for illustration: The White House by DJTechYT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A Memorandum for the Administrator of the General Services on ‘Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture’ has been issued as an Executive Order by US President Donald … 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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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: Dezeen signposts the 25 most significant 21st century buildings… so far, starting with the Tate Modern
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 Dezeen on’The 25 most significant buildings of the 21st century … Continue reading
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CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to examine the importance of built heritage in the UK and the barriers to its preservation, and is open to … Continue reading
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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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CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to examine the importance of built heritage in the UK and the barriers to its preservation, and is open to … Continue reading
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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 ‘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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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Consultation on ‘City of Bath and Great Spa Towns of Europe WHS…’, to 17/01/2025
Public Consultation launched concerning City of Bath and Great Spa Towns of Europe World Heritage Site (WHS) Management Plan closes on 17 January 2025.
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MHCLG seeks ‘Technical independent advisers’ for College of Experts
image: Open Government Licence v3.0 The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is recruiting individuals from a diverse range of science, engineering, and industrial backgrounds for its first ever College of Experts, ‘a list of pre-approved experts from … 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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IHBC’s HESPR News and Tender Alert listing spotlight: Director’s sample news selection from December 2024
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while after a quiet periods, as now, the IHBC’s Director selects a sample news listing from a … Continue reading
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CMS Parliamentary Committee Inquiry call for evidence: ‘Protecting built heritage’… Importance & Barriers, open to 3 February 2025
image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to examine the importance of built heritage in the UK and the barriers to its preservation, and is open to … Continue reading
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Historic England researches Local Lists in LPAs: Survey open to 31/01/2025
Historic England (HE) has initiated a project to research, review and provide recommendations on the development and revision of local heritage lists, initially with research into the current picture of Local Planning Authorities’ (LPA) local lists, seeking input from only … Continue reading
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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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