The IHBC’s Yearbook, the institute’s annual review, is now out, and complements the IHBC’s School by featuring those responsible for shaping skills while also boasting the first Yearbook listing of conservation courses recognised by the IHBC.
IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said: ‘The Yearbook is our essential annual update to members, government, placemakers, practitioners and colleagues, and this year will carry our message to 5500 people and organisations across the UK and far beyond! And as skills have always been at the heart of the IHBC’s operations, it is absolutely right that this Yearbook highlights just what our members are doing to support training and education.
‘Whether working with their managers, staff, stakeholders or clients, our members are especially well placed to deliver the right conservation skills in the right place.’
David McDonald, IHBC’s Education Secretary, said: ‘When jobs are under threat and new opportunities are in short supply, having the right skills is essential for any professional. The 2013 Yearbook theme around training and skills ensures an excellent summary of current issues across the conservation sector and beyond. I commend it to all historic and built environment practitioners’.
‘I’m especially delighted too that this year, for the first time, we are introducing as a regular feature the listing of our recognised conservation courses. These have been evaluated under the IHBC’s quality assurance process for assessing course content and its relevance to our sector. The most current course details will always be found on our website, but this is a valuable initiative especially for those courses that have taken the trouble to address and deliver on the IHBC’s core values. We’re delighted that they have taken that step and this is our thanks to them for participating in our recognition programme!’
Jo Evans, IHBC Chair said ‘It is great to have the Yearbook continue its leading role in highlighting success and challenging thinking across our sector. This year it ties in with our Annual School as it celebrates the ways in which different skills are required by our members as they operate across such widely diverse audiences, from specialist practitioners and advisers to those in early careers in mainstream construction, and even – indeed most important perhaps – to communities and neighbourhoods direct.’
‘I’m delighted that, with the help of our publishing partners Cathedral Communications, we have yet again produced an annual review of our own work that is also a resource for the sector as a whole. As ever, our Yearbook looks outside the IHBC as much as inside, making the publication an essential reference for anyone with an interest in conservation.’
‘The case studies range widely across the IHBC’s interests, from the contributions of our past-chair Dave Chetwyn, whose wide-ranging involvement in England’s neighbourhood planning has helped embed the most subtle of conservation principles in the daily life of local communities, to that of our own Education Secretary David McDonald, who provides a practical overview of how the IHBC is engaging with skills and education. Taking in also special pictures from national and regional perspectives, all in all this 2013 Yearbook provides a perfect introduction to skills issues ‘on the ground’, and so is an equally perfect introduction for anyone coming to the IHBC’s 2013 School’.
As well as special features, the IHBC’s regular Yearbook features include:
· Reports & updates from IHBC officers
· Directory of IHBC members, listed by membership category
· For the first time, a listing of IHBC recognised conservation courses
· HESPR, the IHBC’s Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition service, the register of business services supporting conservation
· Other key addresses, contacts and advertisements from across the conservation sector
The IHBC Yearbook is circulated to all members as well more than 3000 other building and historic environment sector interests across the UK. It will also be available to delegates at the IHBC’s 2013 Annual School, on Skills, in Carlisle in June.
To book a place at the 2013 Annual School see: LINK
To learn more about the IHBC’s conservation course recognition scheme see: LINK
To learn more about the IHBC’s support for conservation skills see our website for resources and guidance linked from: LINK
For links to the IHBC’s recognised course providers see: LINK
For further information on the IHBC’s Yearbook, including purchases and advertising, see: LINK
