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- 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
- 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
Daily Archives: 23/10/2020
IHBC supports CIOB’s ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’: 05 November, online
The IHBC is co-sponsoring the ‘Future Skills for Traditional Buildings’ virtual conference from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) on 5 November, with speakers to include IHBC members Rory Cullen and John Edwards, and with IHBC officers hosting a digital … Continue reading
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IHBC welcomes new AHF-HE Covid-19 recovery grants initiative: £1M for post-COVID business planning for ‘small heritage’, closing 9/11
The IHBC has welcomed the announcement that the Cultural Recovery Fund to include smaller charities and social enterprise, assisted by the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) tandem with Historic England (HE), as £1M has been allocated to ‘charities and social enterprises … Continue reading
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IHBC joins 27 leading planning-linked bodies to explore National Planning Forum’s 2020 Vision
England’s newly launched National Planning Forum (NPF) ‘2020 Vision’ explores ‘Planning in a post-COVID world’, featuring contributions by 28 leading planning-linked bodies – from the Woodland Trust and Historic Houses to the Home Builders Federation and Natural England, alongside IHBC … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £202M+ costed works: Service provision for NI programme, closing 25/11, valued £121K
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 features ‘Heritage from the (industry’s) doorstep’: Traditional skills to the fore as Nairn Courthouse restoration works complete
Scottish Construction Now has reported on the successful strategy in the recently completed Highland Council-led restoration works on the Category B-listed Nairn Courthouse. image: Inverness Courier
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from London, via Ireland: Case study insights to Heritage Partnership Agreements (HPAs)
To expand your technical legislation knowledge of Heritage Partnership Agreements (HPA) see Issue 163 of the institute’s member journal Context where Claire Brady of Historic England explains how a HPA works in practice: as a legal agreement setting out how … Continue reading
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Scotland’s NLHF-funded Business Support Programme applications now open: Closes noon 03/12
Applications are now open to the NLHF-funded Business Support Programme, ‘Surviving to Thriving’ – developed by Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS) and partners – with applications due by noon, 3 December.
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‘Greatest threat in a generation’ faces UK’s heritage buildings: Vic Soc Director Joe O’Donnell
Britain’s architectural heritage is facing a ‘once-in-a-generation’ threat, The Guardian reports, as Joe O’Donnell – Director of one of the country’s foremost conservation groups – warns that Government’s planning reforms will favour new builds over repurposing old structures.
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Historic England Chair warns against removing statues: ‘Recontexualise’ instead
Removing controversial statues risks the past being ‘torn away’, and we should ‘recontextualise’ instead, said Historic England’s chair, Sir Laurie Magnus, in non-Inquiry oral evidence to the Parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee on Physical Heritage, on 6 … Continue reading
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Museums Association response to Oliver Dowden’s letter on contested heritage
The Museums Association (MA) has welcomed the UK Government’s support for museums in England to date, but is ‘Urging the UK Government to respect the arm’s-length principle for museums.
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CLC issues new guidance ahead of Brexit
The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published new guidance for the industry ahead of Brexit at the end of the year.
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Denmark’s ‘Utopian Garden City’ built entirely in circles: See astounding aerial views of Brøndby Haveby
Photographer Henry Do brought the world’s attention to one such suburban settlement, Brøndby Haveby or Garden City – built in 1964 to the design of ‘genius landscape architect Erik Mygind – with a series of aerial photographs posted to Instagram.
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