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- IHBC’s next OPEN & FREE ‘Management’ CPD Pre-School webinars for #IHBCReading2024 School theme, ‘Place & Building Care…’: ‘Enforcement’ (03/05) and ‘Munstead Wood’ estate (16/05) 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: ICE advice for engineers to close the gender pay gap following on RAE research 19/04/2024
- IHBC issues 2024 AGM reminders: To voting members, ‘Please complete your proxy form’, and for all, to register in advance for Robyn Pender on ‘… energy in buildings…’, 30/04 19/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 19/04/2024
- ‘Money is still not the barrier’: Bursaries extended for IHBC’s 2024 School, #IHBCReading2024, 12/13-15 June – ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £112K+ works this week: Heritage team seeks engineering services for canal restoration, £70K, to 10/05 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Claim – Torbay’s planning rules are being flouted due to lack of enforcement 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Proposals for £65m University Centre Blackpool set for decision 19/04/2024
- Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks 19/04/2024
- Joint statement on England’s Natural and Historic Environment published by NE, HE and Lottery: ‘Integrating the Management of the Natural and Historic Environment’ 19/04/2024
- Architects etc. – Professional Practical Experience Commission – Call for evidence, to 24/04 19/04/2024
- Office for Place Update: Free Places at 2024 Design Code Schools for LPA officers 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier 2024, closing 30/04. 19/04/2024
- IHBC welcomes formal signing by IHBC Chair and ICOMOS-UK President of new MOU, securing ‘closer ties and cooperation’ 17/04/2024
- Missed #IHBCReading2024 School webinar on ‘Applying BSI’s PAS 2038…’, co-hosted by Fit for the Future? Just catch it free on IHBC’s Youtube channel… 17/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 17/04/2024
- ‘Money is still not the barrier’: Bursaries extended for IHBC’s 2024 School, #IHBCReading2024, 12/13-15 June – ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 17/04/2024
- IHBC issues 2024 AGM reminders: To voting members, ‘Please complete your proxy form’, and for all, to register in advance for Robyn Pender on ‘… energy in buildings…’, 30/04 17/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Building on ‘world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station’ 17/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’, for #IHBCReading2024 too: Go for £9.5M revamp of Brutalist Reading Hexagon Theatre 17/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Activists occupy house set for demolition by ‘not-for-profit’ housing association 17/04/2024
- CIC: Government must make up for lost time with an improved plan for healthier, climate resilient homes and buildings 17/04/2024
- York Minster receives generous donation towards new Centre of Excellence for Heritage Skills and Estate Management 17/04/2024
- Nearly 70 museums and libraries across England to benefit from £33 million boost 17/04/2024
- APPAG Inquiry on Archaeology and Metal-detecting in England launched 17/04/2024
Daily Archives: 20/03/2020
New Context out now! Ireland under the scope… from the evolving CO to national climate change planning, and urban house museum-making to architects in conservation
The latest issue of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, themed around heritage in Ireland and offering learning on the diverse issues faced by heritage on this western edge of Europe, from the evolving role of the (architectural) … Continue reading
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Don’t forget – #IHBCMarshAwards extended to end March: Nominate ‘retired IHBC members’ and/or ‘successful learners’ for £500 cash awards and free IHBC Annual School places, closing 31 March
The IHBC’s Marsh Awards closing date has been extended to March 31, so please take a few minutes to enter your retired colleagues and/or successful learners for their chance of £500 cash awards and a free place at the IHBC’s … Continue reading
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Don’t forget IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards 2020: Win £500 and a free place on IHBC’s 2021 Aberdeen School, simply submit your coursework online – closing 31 July 2020!
The IHBC’s celebrated annual Gus Astley Student Award will close on 31 July 2020, so if you have relevant coursework from history and theory to practice or enhancement, from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, from 2019 OR … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick, from £16K+ costed opportunities: National Maritime heritage body seeks PM lead, closing 20/04, no value stated
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this week … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from Stirling’s doorstep’: Experts showcase skills in bid to get more girls in construction
Leading women working in Scotland’s construction industry aimed to attract Stirling’s female high school pupils to take up a career in construction, reports The National.
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Nominations invited for UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) panel, including Engineering, Planning, Design etc., closing 3 April
The four UK higher education funding bodies are seeking diverse nominations for further panel members and impact assessors etc. to join the ‘REF sub-panels’, closing 3 April 2020, with areas including disciplines of Engineering; Architecture, Built Environment and Planning; Archaeology; … Continue reading
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Councils considering ‘executive powers’ as measures to avoid planning gridlock if committees cancelled
Councils are reported to be considering taking up rarely-used executive powers to keep the planning and development system moving during the coronavirus pandemic, the Planning Officers Society reports, as officials may use executive powers to take decisions if committees are … Continue reading
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Planned £4bn renovation of Parliament could be postponed in favour of a smaller project lasting just a year
The Palace of Westminster was due to undergo a multi-billion-pound face-lift, with the £4 billion restoration seeing MPs and lords moved to temporary home, but The Daily Mail reports form the Times that the project could be reduced to less … Continue reading
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RTPI takes action to make planning more diverse
The President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has launched a 10-year action plan to make the planning profession more diverse and inclusive. image: RTPI
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Council approves recommended application for 92 solar panels on the roof of the Cloisters at Salisbury Cathedral
An application by the Chapter Clerk of the Salisbury Cathedral Chapter Office, for the installation of 92 solar photovoltaic panels on the south roof of the Cloisters, has been approved.
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Community Shares Fund gets £600k boost from the AHF to help save threatened high street buildings in England
Communities working together to save much-loved buildings and spaces will today be able to apply for a share of a new £600,000 pot from the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF).
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Coronavirus impact survey from engineering industry: Closing 27 March, win £100 in vouchers
An engineering services industry survey was launched by ECA, BESA and SELECT, to obtain an early picture of the current and anticipated business impact in the engineering services sector and its supply chain, closing 27 March and with a chance … Continue reading
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UK construction shows its true social and economic value in CIOB report: Almost doubling the ONS figures
The latest report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) puts the economic influence of the UK construction sector at almost double that of the officially recorded figures by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
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