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- IHBC’s 2024 AGM concludes with overwhelming support for ‘next steps’ in petition for charter exploration: ‘Preparing a Memorandum for the Privy Council Office’ 03/05/2024
- Reserve your place at IHBC’s 2024 School #IHBCReading2024: ‘Place and building care’ across 4 days, from £30+VAT for Virtual Day School 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s Chair welcomes Carole Souter CBE as THA’s new Chair of Trustees 03/05/2024
- Your guidance for #IHBCReading2024 School CPD focus, including ‘Legislation & Policy’ + ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June, from £30+VAT 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s volunteering spotlight: AHF seeks up to three new Trustees, including Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, to 31 May 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £400K+ works this week: Heritage estate body seeks Landscape Architect for woodland landscape, to 24/05 03/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: A New Future For Dover’s Historic Roman Painted House 03/05/2024
- £14.8million awarded by HLF to projects forging the future of industrial past across the UK 03/05/2024
- Government on ‘Partnerships for People and Place’: Offering guidance for ‘officials in place-based policymaking’ 03/05/2024
- AHF on new grants to transform Historic High Streets in England 03/05/2024
- Check out THA’s Carbon Literacy Training Courses & dates 03/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European citizens support religious heritage 03/05/2024
- Another FREE pre-conference #IHBCReading2024 School webinar: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ (03/05, from 1.00pm) and with more to come 30/04/2024
- IHBC seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Full Members as paid MATE session leads, initial closing 1 May 30/04/2024
- First CPD guidance for #IHBCReading2024 School: ‘Management’ Competences -‘Legislation & Policy’ + ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June, from £30+VAT 30/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ Revisited: ALL HESPR member staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT (Code required) 30/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (Welsh) doorstep’: Welsh slate helps Nash’s All Souls from the end of an era to a new one 30/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh’s Granton gasholder taking shape for future public park, says Council 30/04/2024
- Civic Voice and Historic England join forces to explore local historical plaque schemes: Survey closes 12/05 30/04/2024
- RICS launches new Standard to for UK retrofitting Practices 30/04/2024
- RIBA Horizons 2034: ‘Architecture must change beyond recognition to meet the climate challenge’ 30/04/2024
- RTPI & Scottish Government launch Digital Skills Portal for planners 30/04/2024
- CLC sets out ambitious delivery plan for 2024 30/04/2024
- CNP Health Check Report: First assessment & recommendations on nature recovery in National Parks in England and Wales 30/04/2024
- HES: Skills Investment Plan (SIP) for Scotland’s Historic Environment 30/04/2024
ADF announces its 2024 brief: ‘Rethinking Home-Adapt and Reuse’
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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)
The IHBC is delighted to announce two more free #IHBCReading2024 pre-School CPD webinars and tasters in our exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’, targeting IHBC’s ‘Management’ Area of Competence across planning (Enforcement) and historic estates (Munstead Wood), 12/13-15 June:
image Munstead Wood: © National Trust images
- 3 May, 1-2.30PM: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ with Andrew Lavender, co-Director Lavender & Wilson
- 16 May, 1-2.30PM: ‘The beginnings of a creative partnership: Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens at Munstead Wood’, with Dr Caroline Ikin, National Trust Curator at Munstead Wood
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IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: ICE advice for engineers to close the gender pay gap following on RAE research
An analysis of the findings of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s (RAE_ report, ‘Closing the engineering gender pay gap’ focuses on the profession and revealed some surprising findings, concludes The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
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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
IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has reminded voting members to complete proxy voting forms – SHORT or LONG as suits – as back-up arrangements for voting at our 2024 AGM on 30 April, while reminding all to register in advance for the AGM’s CPD session with Robyn Pender on ‘… Why exactly are we using so much energy in buildings in the first place?’.
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New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’
A new closing date of 30 April has been announced for the two IHBC 2024 Marsh Awards – for ‘civic contributions by retired members’, and for ‘successful learning in heritage skills’ – with awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading, for presentations on June 14.
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‘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!’
Bursaries from the IHBC’s UK-wide allocation are still available for the 2024 Annual School in Reading, 12/13-15 June – #IHBCReading2024 – on ‘Place & Building Care: Finance, policy & people in conservation practice’, offering some of the most accessible and essential learning & CPD, at the interfaces of finance and law.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £112K+ works this week: Heritage team seeks engineering services for canal restoration, £70K, to 10/05
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members regular ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s pick this week is a call from a heritage team for structural and civil engineering services linked to canal restoration, closing 10/05 and valued at £70K.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Claim – Torbay’s planning rules are being flouted due to lack of enforcement
Just two planning enforcement officers are on the books at Torbay Council as a shortage of key council officers means planning regulations are being flouted in Torbay, Torbaytoday reports.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Proposals for £65m University Centre Blackpool set for decision
Plans for a £65m university campus in the centre of Blackpool look set to be given the go-ahead – with a new name also unveiled for the development, reports The Blackpool Gazette.
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Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks
After a fire devastated the Danish city’s 400-year-old stock exchange building the mayors of Copenhagen and Paris have been in touch to see what can be learned from the catastrophic fire at Notre Dame cathedral.
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Joint statement on England’s Natural and Historic Environment published by NE, HE and Lottery: ‘Integrating the Management of the Natural and Historic Environment’
‘Integrating the Management of the Natural and Historic Environment’ is a Joint Statement between Natural England (NE), Historic England (HE), and the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF).
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Architects etc. – Professional Practical Experience Commission – Call for evidence, to 24/04
The ARB’s independent Professional Practical Experience Commission is investigating the challenges faced by architecture students in the UK in seeking opportunities for suitable work experience, with a consultation open to 24 April.
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Office for Place Update: Free Places at 2024 Design Code Schools for LPA officers
The Office for Place is supporting Urban Design Learning for local planning authority (LPA) Officers to run two Code Schools later in the year.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier 2024, closing 30/04.
The European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier 2024, is for architectural projects, urban and rural developments completed in the last five years promote architecture in harmony with nature etc, and closes 30 April.
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IHBC welcomes formal signing by IHBC Chair and ICOMOS-UK President of new MOU, securing ‘closer ties and cooperation’
The IHBC has welcomed the formal signing of its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ICOMOS-UK, as a structured agreement focussed on establishing ‘closer ties and cooperation between these two organisations in the field of heritage conservation’.
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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…
If you missed IHBC’s Technical Panel lead John Edwards on ‘Applying BSI’s PAS 2038 in Retrofitting non-domestic Heritage and Traditional Buildings’ – our free ‘pre-school’ CPD webinar supporting IHBC’s Reading School 2024, co-hosted by School partner Fit for the Future – you can now catch it free on the IHBC YouTube Channel for free HERE
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New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’
A new closing date of 30 April has been announced for the two IHBC 2024 Marsh Awards – for ‘civic contributions by retired members’, and for ‘successful learning in heritage skills’ – with awards of £500 and free places at IHBC’s 2024 Annual School in Reading, for presentations on June 14.
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‘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!’
Bursaries from the IHBC’s UK-wide allocation are still available for the 2024 Annual School in Reading, 12/13-15 June – #IHBCReading2024 – on ‘Place & Building Care: Finance, policy & people in conservation practice’, offering some of the most accessible and essential learning & CPD, at the interfaces of finance and law.
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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
IHBC’s Chair David McDonald has reminded voting members to complete proxy voting forms – SHORT or LONG as suits – as back-up arrangements for voting at our 2024 AGM on 30 April, while reminding all to register in advance for the AGM’s CPD session with Robyn Pender on ‘… Why exactly are we using so much energy in buildings in the first place?’.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Building on ‘world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station’
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 Building on the ‘world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’, for #IHBCReading2024 too: Go for £9.5M revamp of Brutalist Reading Hexagon Theatre
Reading Borough Council has given the green light to £9.5 million plans by Haworth Tompkins to overhaul its Brutalist 1977 Hexagon theatre.
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Activists occupy house set for demolition by ‘not-for-profit’ housing association
Housing and climate campaigners occupied a house in south-east London in protest against its planned demolition and the ‘crime’ of leaving empty homes boarded up amid a housing crisis, reports The Morning Star.
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CIC: Government must make up for lost time with an improved plan for healthier, climate resilient homes and buildings
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has responded to the Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultations, calling on government to accelerate the futureproofing and decarbonisation of our homes.
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York Minster receives generous donation towards new Centre of Excellence for Heritage Skills and Estate Management
York Minster is delighted to announce the exceptionally generous support of the Garfield Weston Foundation towards its new Centre of Excellence for Heritage Skills and Estate Management.
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Nearly 70 museums and libraries across England to benefit from £33 million boost
Every part of England will receive funding through the latest round of the Cultural Investment Fund, Government writes.
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