The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while the Director’s occasional news listing this week looks back to early February.
…lots of HESPR-related content alongside the usual NewsBlog gems and nuggets…
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘As we collate our tenders and NewsBlogs, we also find lots of HESPR-related content alongside the usual NewsBlog gems and nuggets. So each week we include with our ‘News and Tender Alerts’ a cross-section of those headlines we think most relevant.’
News links from the first HESPR News alert post in February included (restricted access):
- Campaigners slam National Highways for ‘crass’ Great Musgrave bridge request
- Underground engineering contracts awarded to save crumbling Palace of Westminster
- Plans lodged for new distillery in 200-year-old Castletown mill
- Waste not, want not: Building materials you can reuse and recycle
- Architects underwhelmed by Gove’s levelling up vision
- Industry underwhelmed by Gove’s levelling up vision
- Job cuts planned at RIBA to balance the books
- In pictures: First images of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion
- Aecom says worries about spiralling costs mean London’s builders turning down jobs in droves
- The role of women in the construction industry
We also includes a news selection from the Designing Buildings Newsletter, the host partner of our own Conservation Wiki. Our selection from that week includes:
- Moisture and cavity walls
- Purbeck Stone
- The Hydro Electric Station on the River Dee – Context
- IHBC – Organisation comments on Levelling Up opportunities
- CIOB added to register of end-point assessment organisations
- Study examines how concrete absorbs CO2
For more on HESPR and how to become a HESPR member see hespr.ihbc.org.uk
For a free promotion of your tendering opportunities and work needs to the IHBC’s HESPR members, please send details and links to Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk, as soon as possible.
Tenders can also be advertised for a fee with IHBC Jobs etc, including a targeted email to 2500+ recipients as well as full coverage on our NewsBlog alerts and social platforms (membership and followers c.25,000) and websites with c. 250,000 visits a month. Contact Joanna at contact@ihbc.org.uk
