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- IHBC Launches new ‘Guidance Note’ on ToolBox: Alterations to Listed Buildings’ 15/01/2021
- Parliamentary Inquiry Open: ‘21st Century Places: Values and benefits’ APPG call for evidence closes 29 January 15/01/2021
- IHBC research signpost: Resources on the Buildings of Ireland 15/01/2021
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £290+K costed works: Island authority seeks Design Guide, closing 02/02, valued at £40K. 15/01/2021
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Gang members jailed after £2M lead thefts from churches in Lincolnshire and beyond 15/01/2021
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Plymouth and more set to receive millions from Future High Streets etc. funds 15/01/2021
- Parliament’s ‘Northern Estate’ refurbishment plans halted 15/01/2021
- Hollywood stars join fight to save Oscar Wilde’s prison from developers 15/01/2021
- UKGBC launches project to develop a ‘Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap’ for COP26 15/01/2021
- Winners of the 2020 Street Design Awards announced 15/01/2021
- SLC: Scotland’s new protocol on local authority management of Common Good Land 15/01/2021
- Membership of England’s Urban Centre Recovery Task Force 15/01/2021
- Historic Old Course clubhouse to host female lockers for first time after revamp approved 15/01/2021
- IHBC hosts HESPR forum: ‘Exploring new support initiatives with HESPR members’ 12/01/2021
- IHBC’s HESPR second pick from £198+K costed works: National heritage partnership seeks ‘walks’, closing 01/02, valued £69K+ 12/01/2021
- IHBC research signpost: ARCHIDICT an illustrative multilingual dictionary 12/01/2021
- Cardiff Museum of Military Medicine plans go-head despite petition 12/01/2021
- DSWA congratulates new master craftsman 12/01/2021
- Procurement rule changes to help SMEs 12/01/2021
- Industry leaders back £525bn home improvement plan 12/01/2021
- Thousands of trees planted as Network Rail’s £1 million pledge takes root across the country 12/01/2021
- URBACT on small cities surviving Covid-19: ‘Without frequent sharing we would have felt more alone’ 12/01/2021
- £165M+ in repayable finance announced to support Culture Recovery Fund 12/01/2021
- New STBA Website 12/01/2021
- Caithness Iron Age stone tower conserved 12/01/2021
Daily Archives: 05/09/2020
Stay ahead in hard times: ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service update – from project and design leads to ‘Historic Building Climate Change Adaptation’ at Historic England
To help heritage and conservation employers and practitioners in these pandemic times, the IHBC is continuing its NewsBlog reader updates on the diverse opportunities posted on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, with posts calling for conservation skills across project management … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School: Update on delegate feedback and panellists’ responses to questions now out
Delegates at IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School have been updated with the delegate feedback – encouragingly positive, and made available here to NewsBlog readers – as well as current response from select panellists to questions raised by delegates, all alongside early … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £194K of costed work: Council partnership seeks integrated cultural and natural asset planning model, closing 11/09 and valued at £29K
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 its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: The architects’ view of conservation evolution in Ireland – and ‘The RIAI’s role in conservation’
If you need more for your IHBC ‘Management’ and ‘Intervention’ CPD, try examining aspects of Irish conservation history in issue 163 of the institute’s member journal Context, as the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland’s (RIAI) role in the … Continue reading
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Parliamentary report on ‘Impact of Covid-19 on DCMS Sectors’ published
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee says Covid-19 crisis presents biggest threat to UK’s cultural infrastructure, institutions and workforce in a generation. image: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament
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BEFS shares CHERF Report on consequences for heritage of COVID-19
Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) has shared the report of the Covid Historic Environment Resilience Forum(CHERF), indicating the three clear messages which arose from discussion namely relevance exclusion and localism.
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Legally binding targets to help ‘build back greener’
The Government is setting out how it will underpin key environmental commitments with legally binding targets, including for air quality, water, waste and biodiversity. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence v3.0
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NI’s £800K ‘Access and Inclusion Programme’ launched
Communities Minister for Northern Ireland (NI) Carál Ní Chuilín and its Rural Minister Edwin Poots today jointly launched this year’s Access and Inclusion Programme. image: Department for Communities NI
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Researchers to develop online remote building inspection platform
Researchers at the University of Strathclyde have received funding to develop an online platform for remote building inspection.
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UKGBC seeks input to ‘Playbooks’: To include retrofit, as it updates old, on newbuild
UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) is updating its ‘Policy Playbook’, that covers (new build) housing standards and is in the process of creating a new Playbook that covers retrofit of the existing housing stock, and informed seeks input.
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Amsterdam has been collapsing for years. Now it’s paying the price, from CNN
Amsterdam has been collapsing for years and now it’s paying the price as cracks and sinkholes are appearing alongside it’s waterways. image: for illustration purposes only – B Badcock
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Public Invited to Give Views on the Future of Scotland’s Towns: Closing 30/09
The Expert Review Group formed by the Scottish Government to undertake an appraisal of the Town Centre Action Plan published in 2013 has issued a national survey to gather the views of local communities on the future of their towns, … Continue reading
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