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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: 27/04/2021
IHBC’s newest Context: Tackling ‘Urban Design’
The latest issue (no. 167) of the IHBC’s membership journal Context is now out, boasting a tight focus on Urban Design, with a distinctly international take.
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IHBC welcomes Scotland’s celebration of new IHBC accredited member: Congratulations to Page\Park’s Natalia Burakowska
The IHBC has welcomed the high profile congratulations offered by one of Scotland’s lead practices – Page\Park – on the conservation accreditation by the IHBC of staff member Natalia Burakowska.
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IHBC Research Signpost: RTPI Research Awards 2021 open for entries to 17/05
Entries are open now for this year’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Research Excellence – which ‘promote planning research from RTPI-accredited planning schools and RTPI members’ – and close on 17 May.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ double-up pick of the week: HS2 design panel backs scaled-back Euston station and seeks new members (closing 10/05)
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, featuring this week an HS2 independent design panel double-up, as the scaled-back Euston … Continue reading
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Swansea Council approves measures to add ‘context’ to place names with links to slavery
Place names in Swansea with links to the slave trade or exploitation are to be accompanied by panels or digital bar codes to give a fuller historical context, while lesser-known figures from Swansea’s past will be recognised in the future … Continue reading
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Sir Laurie Magnus reappointed as Chair of Historic England
Sir Laurie Magnus has been reappointed by the Secretary of State as Chair of Historic England for a two year period, from 1 September 2021 to 31 August 2023. image: HE website
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HE’s Draft Industrial Heritage Strategy consultation open
Historic England’s (HE) Draft Industrial Heritage Strategy is open for consultation until Monday 7 June 2021.
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Nominations for the 2021 Plowden Medal Conservation Award are open: Closing 30/06
Nominations for the 2021 Plowden Medal Conservation Award are open until Wednesday 30 June 2021. image: The Royal Warrant Holders Association website
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Halliday Fraser Munro invests in peatland restoration to offset carbon footprint
Architecture and planning practice Halliday Fraser Munro has become the first Scottish firm to invest in a pioneering peatland restoration project in Wester Ross in the north of Scotland. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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IHBC’s IMHO: JCT Contracts – Meeting the objectives of the Construction Playbook
Peter Hibberd (past chair of JCT – formerly The Joint Contracts Tribunal) – has explored how its resources support the objectives of the Construction Playbook Government Guidance (Guidance) on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes. image: Open Government … Continue reading
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