{"id":15593,"date":"2017-05-05T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=15593"},"modified":"2017-05-05T18:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:20:10","slug":"ciob-and-national-trust-with-ihbc-help-mainstream-heritage-in-building-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15593","title":{"rendered":"CIOB and National Trust, with IHBC, help mainstream heritage in building operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IHBC_Areas_Competence-e1494004697978.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15594\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IHBC_Areas_Competence-300x160.png\" alt=\"IHBC Areas of Competence image\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>The IHBC stand at the CIOB\/National Trust conference, \u2018Keys to the Successful Operation of Historic Buildings\u2019, on 3 May, in London\u2019s Somerset House, offered delegates easy access to career and related practice advice from IHBC officers \u2013 Director Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly and Support Officer Carla Pianese \u2013 and IHBC volunteer and Full Member Rachael Parry, also a member of the IHBC\u2019s new membership forum, \u2018Council+\u2019.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>IHBC Director Sean O\u2019Reilly, who delivered an opening speech, described the event as \u2018a great day for historic buildings as the CIOB, with the National Trust, help mainstream heritage considerations across today\u2019s building operations\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening speech Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly also noted that;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Houses of Parliament restoration is a major opportunity to promote the global and sustainable credentials of \u2018Brand UK\u2019 in these Brexit years<\/li>\n<li>Older buildings are challenging because modern processes ignore their real value:\n<ul>\n<li>The base line in education is focussed on assembly-line approaches to new build, when our building stock profile proves that heritage skills should be at the heart of construction training today, not its \u2018accredited\u2019 top-up<\/li>\n<li>Equally irrational are economic approaches, such VAT on repairs, which adds cost to the sustainable care of the current stock, and ordinary GDP figures, which only hide the economic impact of heritage from government, a fact witnessed also in the government\u2019s current <em>Industrial Strategy<\/em> paper which ignores environmental and related heritage opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Specialist bodies such as the CIOB and the IHBC play critical roles in heritage advocacy as well as the quality assurance of heritage practice standards, and need to keep promoting the value of key tools such as <em>BS 7913<\/em>, the British Standard on historic building conservation<\/li>\n<li>Effective conservation is an integrated process that demands understanding of practice models such as the IHBC\u2019s <em>Conservation Cycle<\/em> and linked Areas of Competence, and the ICOMOS conservation training guidelines to which these map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>View the full <a href=\"http:\/\/events.ciob.org\/sites\/default\/files\/event\/Keys%20to%20the%20Successful%20Operation%20of%20Historic%20Buildings%20-%20Flyer_0.pdf\">agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciob.org\/events\/2017\/5\/ciob-conference-keys-successful-operation-historic-buildings\">CIOB website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=15537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/bs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purchase BS 7913<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC stand at the CIOB\/National Trust conference, \u2018Keys to the Successful Operation of Historic Buildings\u2019, on 3 May, in London\u2019s Somerset House, offered delegates easy access to career and related practice advice from IHBC officers \u2013 Director Se\u00e1n O\u2019Reilly &hellip; 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