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- IHBC’s Context raids Hadrian’s Wall ‘end to end’ for #IHBCReading2024 themes: What happened… Cumbria’s vernacular… Bastles on the border… features (Ian Nairn!) & more 26/04/2024
- FREE CPD webinar: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ (03/05) for #IHBCReading2024, with more to come 26/04/2024
- IHBC seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Full Members as paid MATE session leads, initial closing 1 May 26/04/2024
- 2024 AGM, 30/04: Register for Pender’s special take on ‘energy in buildings’, & call on eligible members to complete votes by proxy 26/04/2024
- FINAL REMINDER: Closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 26/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s occasional selection, from 13/02 (& £1.3Mn costed works) 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Ron’s Place’ saved by mystery benefactor 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Couple hit with £6K court bill and told to tear down garden extension 26/04/2024
- Westminster Council’s new policy to make a ‘retrofit first’ city 26/04/2024
- Labour releases 5 -Point plan for high streets 26/04/2024
- REMINDER: England consults on accelerated planning system, ‘10 weeks and fee refunds’ for major commercial applications, to 01/05 26/04/2024
- Job Vacancy: General Secretary of ICOMOS-UK – Voluntary + expenses, closing 17 May 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Moulin Rouge: Sails fall off Paris’s famous cabaret club overnight 26/04/2024
- First ‘priority CPD’ guidance out for #IHBCReading2024 School, globally accessible from only £30+VAT: ‘Management’ Competences -‘Legislation & Policy’, ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Canal and River Trust on ‘Our impact: transforming places, enriching lives’ 23/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 23/04/2024
- 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 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ALL HESPR member staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT (Code required) 23/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversial demolition of closed Museum of London and office block expected 23/04/2024
- Intangible Cultural Heritage: UK becomes the 183rd State to join UNESCO’s Convention 23/04/2024
- HES: New Report on Connections Between Properties in Care and the British Empire 23/04/2024
- 10 New Design Code Pathfinder areas selected 23/04/2024
- BEFS Policy Map for Scotland’s Existing Built Environment Policy Overview Map, Spring 2024 23/04/2024
- Budget boost for farmers and environment with extension to Agricultural Property Relief 23/04/2024
- ADF announces its 2024 brief: ‘Rethinking Home-Adapt and Reuse’ 23/04/2024
Daily Archives: 07/07/2020
DBW highlights IHBC-ALGAO:UK partnership to12.5+K registered users across construction & development: Promoting LAs in conservation and the HE
IHBC partner information service Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), has headlined the IHBC ALGAO:UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), – from the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki report on plans to promote services in local authority– circulating the news to DBW’s c.12,500+ registered users … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Contractor’s COVID-19 tests positive for 53%
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’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Weston’s Birnbeck Pier could have new owner as Council consider CPO
After years of decline, Birnbeck Pier could potentially have a new owner as North Somerset Council will receive a report to authorise the issuing of a compulsory purchase order (CPO) for the grade-II listed pier to the RNLI, reports The … Continue reading
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BEFS highlights lack of R&M in ‘Economy for Scotland: Report’ despite advocacy
The Report from the independent Advisory Group established by the Scottish Government to advise on Scotland’s economic recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been issued, but despite sector advocacy fails to make explicit the ‘shovel ready’ repair … Continue reading
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RIAS Elects Youngest Ever Candidate as President
Christina Gaiger FRIAS has been elected the next President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), taking over from Robin Webster OBE at the Incorporation’s AGM on 30th June 2020.
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Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) and partners awarded £0.5M by NLHF for ‘building the resilience of the heritage sector’
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has announced that in a partnership led by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) and with greenspace Scotland, it has been awarded £497,300 from National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF), to support major investment in building the resilience … Continue reading
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Historic Houses on 70th Anniversary of the Gowers Report
The publication of the Gowers Report in June 1950 was a seminal moment in the postwar rescue of Britain’s country house heritage, and Historic Houses celebrates its legacy.
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Scotland’s free resource to help UK construction sector attract more women into industry
An industry guide has been published to support the construction industry to attract and retain women into the sector.
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Nominations for 7 Most Endangered 2021 programme closes 7 September: ‘Let’s save Europe’s endangered heritage sites together’, says Europa Nostra
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Scotland invests £78m to help construction sector return to work
More than £78 million is to be invested into the construction sector as part of a new Return to Work package to help stimulate Scotland’s economy following the coronavirus pandemic. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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MPs are asked for views on £4bn Parliament restoration plan
MPs and peers are being asked for their views on the planned restoration and renewal of the Houses of Parliament. image: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament
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AA director loses two votes of no confidence
The Architectural Association (AA) school is in turmoil after director Eva Franch i Gilabert lost two votes of confidence in her leadership.
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