{"id":12400,"date":"2016-03-30T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=12400"},"modified":"2016-03-26T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:33:21","slug":"new-ihbc-context-out-building-with-earth-and-clay-or-from-mud-brick-to-mrs-coade-with-400-copies-to-partners-in-blf-and-earth-building-uk-for-clayfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=12400","title":{"rendered":"New IHBC Context out: Building with Earth and Clay, (or \u2018\u2026 from mud brick to Mrs Coade\u2019) with 400 copies to partners in BLF and Earth Building UK (for Clayfest 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Context_143\"<\/a>Terracotta, faience, Coade stone, mud brick and earth plasters are all covered the new issue of the IHBC members\u2019 journal Context<\/em>, as No. 143 covers building with earth, clay and more, while 400 copies are being presented to key sector partners for distribution at IHBC-sponsored events: Building Limes Forum conferences and to Earth Building UK for their 2016 Clayfest in Cumbria!<\/u><\/p>\n

IHBC Director Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly said: \u2018As the primary platform for presenting built and historic environment conservation in practice, our members\u2019 journal Context<\/em> embodies the broadest sector remit and offers some of the best multi-disciplinary CPD you can imagine.\u00a0 So it\u2019s fitting that it serves also as our leading outreach tool to practitioner colleagues, and regularly we produce free copies for partner bodies to circulate to their own members at key events.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This issue is no different, as both the Building Limes Forum, which does what it says, and Earth Building UK, organisers of the 2016 Clayfest, and both with IHBC as sponsors, will offer free copies of this issue for circulation at their major events and conferences.<\/p>\n

On issue No 143 itself, Fiona Newton, IHBC acting Chair of the Editorial Board, said: \u2018The world is full of people inventing new building materials and ingenious ways of using the latest technology to make buildings work. At the same time other people are rediscovering the wonders of some materials that have been around for thousands of years.\u00a0 This issue of Context<\/em>, which focuses on building with earth and clay, and conserving what previous generations built with it, highlights how much there is to learn, and how much these ancient and fundamental materials have to offer.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Building with earth is durable, fireproof and reusable.\u00a0 Firing it to make bricks and tiles was a local affair until the industrial revolution, when technology made those products more consistent and cheaper, and canals and railways slashed distances.\u00a0 Our brick-built towns and cities are the result. The ease of moulding terracotta provided a cheaper and mass-producible substitute for stone, with qualities of its own. Mrs Coade showed just how fine and robust clay-based artificial stone could be.\u00a0 Today, though, natural variations in colour, tone and texture do not come easily to modern kiln technology and production methods.\u00a0 With both repairs and replacements presenting difficulties, the size of terracotta\u2019s conservation challenge is becoming ever more clear.\u00a0 Our new Context<\/em> will introduce you, and inform you about, these ideas and standards, and many more.\u2019<\/p>\n

The articles within this issue include:<\/p>\n