{"id":40862,"date":"2024-09-03T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40862"},"modified":"2024-09-01T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:24:27","slug":"ihbc-adds-new-climate-change-and-adaptation-category-to-hespr-practice-areas-responding-to-climate-change-issues-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40862","title":{"rendered":"IHBC adds new \u2018Climate Change and Adaptation\u2019 category to HESPR practice areas: \u2018\u2026 responding to climate change issues\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HESPR_and_image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HESPR_and_image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HESPR_and_image.png 915w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HESPR_and_image-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/HESPR_and_image-768x313.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h3>The IHBC\u2019s heritage business register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">HESPR<\/a> \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for commercial heritage services \u2013 now has the new practice area of \u2018Climate Change Adaptation\u2019, helping promote accredited members\u2019 specialist skills and roles linked to retrofit and related works in older traditional and historic properties.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 appropriately qualified Members are available to assist clients in improving\u2026.energy efficiency\u2026.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The IHBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">HESPR<\/a> is a promotional service for businesses that work to conservation and service standards expected by the IHBC, with service areas for clients and other uses to search now covering<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historic Building Conservation<\/li>\n<li>Conservation Planning<\/li>\n<li>Architectural Design and new build in historic areas<\/li>\n<li>Historical research<\/li>\n<li>Historic area assessments<\/li>\n<li>Project management<\/li>\n<li>Archaeology<\/li>\n<li>Climate change adaptation<\/li>\n<li>Other<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David McDonald &#8216;I am pleased to see that Climate Change Adaptation has been added to the list of relevant practice areas for HESPR Members.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This not only shows that the IHBC is responding to climate change issues, but also sends out the message that appropriately qualified Members are available to assist clients in improving the energy efficiency of their historic properties by carefully balancing sustainability and significance&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Chair of the IHBC\u2019s Technical Panel, Professor John Edwards, said: \u2018All buildings require some level of retrofit and it is important that it is tackled properly and that can only be done with the wright people involved.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I therefore welcome the new retrofit category on the HESPR register to allow individuals and others to obtain the right retrofit expertise\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The IHBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>HESPR is responding to client demand to help tackle climate change, the impact this has on the historic environment and the work you might do to help. We are adding &#8216;climate change adaptation&#8217; as a role HESPR companies might carry out.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that your company possesses appropriate specialist skills in &#8216;climate change adaptation&#8217; please get in touch by email to have this additional skill added to your HESPR listing.\u00a0 Please include the type of work in this category you have been involved in so we can get a picture of the work HESPR companies are undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>See more on HESPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/hespr\/docs\/HESPR-A5-leaflet.pdf\">Download the HESPR flyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC\u2019s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at <a href=\"mailto:contact@ihbc.org.uk\">contact@ihbc.org.uk<\/a>, as soon as possible<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for commercial heritage services \u2013 now has the new practice area of \u2018Climate Change Adaptation\u2019, helping promote accredited members\u2019 specialist skills and roles linked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,18,30,23,29],"class_list":["post-40862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40863,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862\/revisions\/40863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}