{"id":4569,"date":"2012-08-10T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2012-08-10T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:06:03","slug":"first-trad-build-festedinburghs-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"First trad-build-fest@Edinburgh\u2019s Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edinburgh\u2019s first traditional building festival, organised by the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum, a group representing stakeholders from across the sector from architects and surveyors, to suppliers and craftsmen, will take place 21 \u2013 24 August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the festival is to celebrate Edinburgh\u2019s traditional buildings and the materials and skills used to maintain them for future generations. The festival is funded by Historic Scotland, Construction Skills Scotland, the National Federation of Roofing Contractors and the Stone Federation of Great Britain, with support from Edinburgh\u2019s Telford College and Edinburgh World Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>John McKinney, Chairman of the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum said: \u2018We are delighted to announce the inaugural Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival. The forum ran a property repair seminar last year and a traditional building skills exhibition at Edinburgh Castle in May this year, from these events it was obvious that many others share the passion for traditional buildings that forum members have. We decided to run the Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival so we could cover a wide range of topics which we hope will be of interest to everyone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The programme will include live demonstrations of slating and masonry skills, talks from heritage experts, conservation case studies, walking tours and advice on improving the energy efficiency of traditional buildings.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Download the programme<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\/news\/docs\/email_LEAFLET_aug2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Edinburgh Fringe Traditional Building<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edfringe.com\/whats-on\/spoken-word\/edinburgh-traditional-building-festival\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh\u2019s first traditional building festival, organised by the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum, a group representing stakeholders from across the sector from architects and surveyors, to suppliers and craftsmen, will take place 21 \u2013 24 August. The aim of the festival &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}