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- IHBC’s Context 185 under the spotlight: Accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals, featuring Morwenna Slade IHBC on ‘Successful solar generation in the historic environment’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 09/12/2025
- Career conscious & in conservation? IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’ services spans disciplines, levels & sectors, linked by interdisciplinary conservation practice standards delivering public benefit 09/12/2025
- IHBC’s 2025 Parliamentary Briefing launches research-led ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’… From Crafts in Crisis to Rubbish in Retrofit 09/12/2025
- IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: DB on IHBC’s ‘… From Crafts in crisis to rubbish in retrofit’… ‘5 commitments to help heritage skills in conservation’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Three reasons not to demolish Edinburgh’s Argyle House – by architect Malcolm Fraser 09/12/2025
- Welsh Government Flexible Skills Programme (FSP) 09/12/2025
- First Session of the World Heritage APPG held on November 5 2025 09/12/2025
- RIBA responds to Autumn Budget 2025 09/12/2025
- Consultation: England’s Building Control charges, notices and certificates, to 25/01 09/12/2025
- RIBA & partners call for raise the age of eligibility for Level 7 apprenticeship funding 09/12/2025
- BEFS Planning Forward Event Outcomes Report published 09/12/2025
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’ (Compass 1): ‘A Culture Compass for Europe’ 09/12/2025
- IHBC updates on ‘5 Commitments to Help Heritage Skills in Conservation’: Check out our web hub, with video & feedback, and help reduce damage to both health and heritage 05/12/2025
- IHBC Supporter Surgery for aspiring Affiliates: Have you registered yet? 11 December, 1pm (IHBC CPD too!) 05/12/2025
- IHBC welcomes new joint CEOs at Historic England to post 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s new Context, No185, ‘lifts the lid on roofing’, from craft to carbon, with essential, accessible CPD for Conservation Professionals & colleagues 05/12/2025
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ signpost: HE’s Technical Advice on ‘Historic and Traditional Buildings at Risk of Flooding’ – mitigation & adaptation for flood types & construction to energy efficiency & more 05/12/2025
- IHBC Director’s pick from HESPR’s £7M+ of weekly works: Town Council seeks team for urban development enhancement project, to 12/12 & £1M 05/12/2025
- Planning Aid bodies across the UK unite in landmark agreement to share expertise and strengthen public engagement 05/12/2025
- The Heritage Alliance on ‘What the Autumn Budget Means for the Heritage Sector’ 05/12/2025
- Heritage Network: Impact Report 2025 issued 05/12/2025
- CIC Responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 05/12/2025
- RSPB: New ‘More in Common’ report shows people don’t want new homes to be built at nature’s expense 05/12/2025
- New director of careers and education joins RTPI 05/12/2025
Tag Archives: waterways
IHBC’s Professional Signpost: Historic Rochester Grade II listed bridge undergoes detailed principal inspection
image for illustration: Rochester Bridge by Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Skilled rope access inspectors are at Rochester Old Bridge to carry out a detailed inspection that puts them within touching distance of all elements of the bridge. … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Hull CC confirms repair works to begin at Drypool Bridge Hull
image for illustration: Drypool Bridge, Hull by Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hull Live reports that Hull City Council (CC) has confirmed that major repair works are to begin at Drypool Bridge, a Scherzer Rolling Bascule Bridge.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Cities around the world are sinking at ‘worrying speed’
image for illustration: London by © User:Colin and Kim Hansen / Wikimedia Commons Dozens of coastal regions that are sinking at a worrying speed, according to a study by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
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Tagged building, climate change, coasts, environment, flooding, government, nature, planning, waterways
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Canal & River Trust announces new chief executive
The Canal & River Trust has announced the appointment of Campbell Robb as its new chief executive.
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Wilts & Berks Canal Trust calls for volunteer engineers and planners to help on UK’s largest canal restoration project
image for illustration: Wilts & Berks Canal by Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is calling on all Engineers and Planners to join the UK’s largest canal restoration project.
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Tagged canals, climate change, conservation, engineers, environment, expertise, heritage, nature, skills, waterways
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IHBC HESPR’s ‘News from the Sector’: New Civil Engineer on a ‘Call for volunteer engineers for Wilts & Berks canal’
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 New Civil Engineer on a ‘Call for volunteer engineers … Continue reading
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