The IHBC is delighted to announce three more free and open to all #IHBCReading2024 pre-conference CPD webinars in our exploration of ‘Place & Building Care…’ in Reading in June, with ‘Enforcement up next as Andrew Lavender explores ‘effective enforcement’ on 3 May, 1.00-2.30pm.
IHBC Full Members who are strong presenters and communicators, committed to maintaining our standards in line with the Institute’s interdisciplinary practice model, as well as supporting members’ career journeys, are called on to submit interest in a new occasional, flexible, interactive and fee-based opportunity as an IHBC ‘Recognised MATE Provider’!
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 the #IHBCReading2024 School offer to HESPR members of reduced rates for all staff joining the Virtual School on 14 June: only £30+VAT.
John Nash’s last surviving church gets a new Welsh Slate roof giving the church a new lease of life in its bicentenary, reports Welsh Slate.
New footage shows the tank in the iconic gasholder frame has been infilled in preparation for the site to become a public park in the future, reports the City of Edinburgh Council.
Civic Voice and Historic England have announced their collaboration aimed at gaining understanding about local plaque schemes and the organisations behind them.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), has launched a new ‘Residential Retrofit Standard’ following consultation.
The RIBA’s new horizon scanning programme with ‘RIBA Horizons 2034: The Environmental Challenge’ provides foresight into how the design and construction industry can mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.
The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Scottish Government have launched the Digital Skills Portal, a ‘one stop’ portal designed to improve the confidence of digital skills, amongst all planners, in their everyday roles.
Preparing industry for the Building Safety Act, improving productivity, reducing carbon emissions and supporting biodiversity will be the priorities for the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) in 2024.
A new National Parks Health check report from the Campaign for National Parks (CNP) finds national parks across England and Wales are struggling to restore nature as a result of insufficient funding and outdated design.
Historic Environment Scotland has published a refreshed Skills Investment Plan (SIP) to support our workforce and to nurture their skills, knowledge, expertise, and personal qualities.
The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after construction started, reports CNN.
The new issue of the IHBC’s members’ journal, Context, No. 179, offers diverse takes on Hadrian’s Wall – inspired by ‘The man who saved Hadrian’s Wall’ – with a special collation of personal and professional takes on #IHBCReading2024’s theme of ‘Place and Building Care’.
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:IHBC Full Members who are strong presenters and communicators, committed to maintaining our standards in line with the Institute’s interdisciplinary practice model, as well as supporting members’ career journeys, are called on to submit interest in a new occasional, flexible, interactive and fee-based opportunity as an IHBC ‘Recognised MATE Provider’!
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?’.
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.
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s occasional news listing from the service looks back on news and links from 13 February, when opportunities worth £1.3Mn were posted.
After a 33-year transformation by artist Ron Gittins, a flat in Oxton filled with a range of fascinating art has been purchased by a mystery benefactor following a campaign to preserve it, reports the Birkenhead News.
Westminster City Council has set out new proposed planning policies on retrofitting and affordable housing.
Labour’s 5-point plan to breathe life into Britain’s high streets….Under the Conservatives, Britain’s high streets are on the decline.
A consultation on a new accelerated Planning service for major commercial applications in England has been launched, proposing decision times in 10 weeks and fee refund if not met, closing 01/05.
