Daily Archives: 17/08/2021

REMINDER: Submit your coursework for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award by 31 AUGUST to win up to £500 & a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School

Following calls from participating courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award is now 31 August, so relevant coursework submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate – from 2020 OR 2021 may be submitted … Continue reading

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IHBC CPD Signpost: Townscapes – The Value of Social Infrastructure as ‘physical spaces and community facilities’

A Public Policy think tank has called on government to work with local and devolved authorities to better focus, fund and devise a strategy that establishes support for community facilities as a key pillar of the post-Covid recovery agenda.

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IHBC’s research signpost: Design Economy 2021 – on ‘current and future economic, social and environmental’ design values

Design Economy is a resource to help learn more about the current and future economic, social and environmental value of design in the UK.

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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick: pbctoday on ‘Retrofitting for energy efficiency: PAS 2035’

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’, and this week features pbctoday on ‘Retrofitting for energy efficiency: PAS 2035’.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (granite) doorstep’: Granite-gate… guide to UTG saga and why stone is so important to Aberdeen

The Evening Express reports on the mystery of a missing granite staircase has rocked Aberdeen, with a possible police investigation being launched into how dozens of precious stone slabs ended up on the property of a high profile businessman.

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Appeal: Inspector rejects replacement sculpture for deposed Colston statue

After a Planning Inspector determined that a temporary sculpture on the plinth of the former slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol would fail to preserve the special architectural and historic interest of the Grade II listed monument, the proposal has … Continue reading

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Stronger together – Creative England and Creative Industries Federation have united to form the Creative UK Group

Creative England and Creative Industries Federation have united to form the Creative UK Group We work to connect, support, champion and invest in the UK’s world-leading creative industries.

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RIBA Future Trends July 2021: ‘… architects remain very positive about future workloads’

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published the latest Future Trends survey results, a monthly report of the business and employment trends affecting the architects’ profession, highlighting that ‘… architects remain very positive about future workloads’.

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Highways England locked in yet another bridge infilling row, in South Downs National Park

Highways England has found itself embroiled in yet another row over a planned bridge infilling project as engineers, transport planners and the local authority have all hit out at the proposed infill of a 156-year-old disused rail bridge in the … Continue reading

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Consultation for building safety manager specification, PAS 8673, closes 15/09

The public consultation process for The British Standards Institution (BSI) PAS 8673, a new specification that provides a framework for the competence of building safety managers, is open until 15 September.

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THA’s UK surveys: ‘Diversity, Inclusion & the Heritage Sector’ and ‘Accessibility & Heritage’, closing soon

The Heritage Alliance (THA) has issued two surveys, on ‘Diversity, Inclusion & the Heritage Sector’ closing 6 September, and on ‘Accessibility & Heritage’, closing 28 August.

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The repair team preserving an 18th Century home in Spitalfields: From the BBC

For the first time since it opened for tours forty years ago, Dennis Severs’ 18th Century house in Spitalfields, east London, has been closed to the public but, behind the scenes, a small army has been working to renew the … Continue reading

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