Last edited 07 Apr 2020
IHBC articles
This is a list of articles on Conservation Wiki (part of Designing Buildings Wiki) that were created by The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC).
- Cities of the North. Apr 2020
- New towns heritage. Apr 2020
- French new towns. Mar 2020
- Listing of Sainsbury's supermarket in Camden Town. Mar 2020
- Post-war new towns in Germany. Mar 2020
- Cynical vandalism of a deserted medieval village in Withybrook. Feb 2020
- Bletchley Park restoration. Jan 2020
- Historical versus Modern: Identity through imitation. Jan 2020
- Sweeping building safety measures announced. Jan 2020
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Jan 2020
- Can the heritage of Europe help to integrate the UK. Dec 2019
- Heritage value. Dec 2019
- Local Plan Route Mapper and toolkit. Dec 2019
- Marketing heritage assets. Dec 2019
- Methodology for moisture investigations in traditional buildings. Dec 2019
- Towards a radical eclecticism. Dec 2019
- A review of Scotland's historic lighthouses. Nov 2019
- Britain's Best Real Heritage Pubs. Nov 2019
- French new towns. Nov 2019
- Historic Cities: issues in urban conservation. Nov 2019
- Impact of independent museums locally and nationally. Nov 2019
- JW Evans silverware factory. Nov 2019
- New architecture of Scotland’s west coast. Nov 2019
- Replacing lanterns and overthrows in Great Pulteney Street. Nov 2019
- Scotland’s new guide on managing climate-change risk to historic sites. Nov 2019
- Scottish government intervention in market-led regeneration. Nov 2019
- Socialist realism in a post-war Czechoslovak new town. Nov 2019
- Strategic urban design and the conservation team. Nov 2019
- The redevelopment of Leicester's sewerage system by Joseph Gordon. Nov 2019
- United Free Church of Scotland: Design for Manses in the Highland Districts. Nov 2019
- Engaging communities in our Highlands and Islands. Oct 2019
- Inspiring creativity in heritage and the creative industries. Oct 2019
- Lord Leverhulme on Lewis and Harris. Oct 2019
- Orkney gables. Oct 2019
- Researching the history of Fountaine Hospital Almshouse. Oct 2019
- Re-thatching a Hebridean blackhouse. Oct 2019
- Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings. Oct 2019
- Southwark Council's programme of rooftop housing development. Oct 2019
- Unlocking the Church: the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space. Oct 2019
- 6 Burlington Gardens. Sep 2019
- Boom Cities: architect-planners and the politics of urban renewal in 1960s Britain. Sep 2019
- Caithness Broch Project. Sep 2019
- Conservation in the Highlands and Islands. Sep 2019
- Heritage case studies from Scotland. Sep 2019
- Historic high streets to receive £95m boost. Sep 2019
- Old Buildings, New Architecture. Sep 2019
- PAS 2035. Sep 2019
- Prefab bungalows. Sep 2019
- The challenges and opportunities of conservation in the Highlands and Islands. Sep 2019
- The iron roof at the Albert Dock. Sep 2019
- The Livery Halls of the City of London. Sep 2019
- The Victorian Society's Top 10 Endangered buildings 2019. Sep 2019
- The World Recast: 70 buildings from 70 years of Concrete Quarterly. Sep 2019
- War memorials. Sep 2019
- Caring for war memorials. Aug 2019
- Characterising Neighbourhoods: exploring local assets of community significance. Aug 2019
- Conservation of Architectural Ironwork. Aug 2019
- Conserving Europeanness. Aug 2019
- Fountaine Hospital Almshouse. Aug 2019
- Opening up at Covent Garden. Aug 2019
- The British Mosque: an architectural and social history. Aug 2019
- Visby as a historic urban landscape. Aug 2019
- A Steeplejack's View of Life. Jul 2019
- An art deco cinema on wartime Orkney. Jul 2019
- Brexit and UK research into cultural heritage. Jul 2019
- Conserving structures in historic designed landscapes. Jul 2019
- Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust. Jul 2019
- Harmonising heritage in the Nordic countries. Jul 2019
- Municipal Dreams: the rise and fall of council housing. Jul 2019
- Post-war rebuilding. Jul 2019
- Royal Ordnance Factories. Jul 2019
- Seashaken Houses: A lighthouse history from Eddystone to Fastnet. Jul 2019
- Second world war heritage at sea. Jul 2019
- The Dukes of Normandy and the second world war. Jul 2019
- The New Tenement: residences in the inner city since 1970. Jul 2019
- Waterfronts Revisited: European ports in a historic and global perspective. Jul 2019
- 2019 Gus Astley Student Awards. Jun 2019
- Hardy Plants and Plantings for Repton and Late Georgian Gardens (1780-1820). Jun 2019
- Heritage and Brexit. Jun 2019
- Heritage protection in Ireland. Jun 2019
- International heritage policy. Jun 2019
- New Design for Old Buildings. Jun 2019
- Conservation in action at the Engine Shed. May 2019
- Conserving and managing historic designed landscapes. May 2019
- Dorchester on Thames neighbourhood development plan. May 2019
- Durham Cathedral's Open Treasure project. May 2019
- England's Railway Heritage from the Air. May 2019
- Our Town Hall, Manchester. May 2019
- Shared heritage from a social perspective. May 2019
- Shared space: people, traffic and historic townscape. May 2019
- Sharing local authority conservation services. May 2019
- Technology in the Country House. May 2019
- The Story of Kensington Palace. May 2019
- Titanic Quarter. May 2019
- Value in the view: conserving historic urban views. May 2019
- Future of seaside towns. Apr 2019
- Notre Dame, a conservation perspective. Apr 2019
- Chapels of England: buildings of protestant nonconformity. Mar 2019
- Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland. Mar 2019
- Crittall metal windows. Mar 2019
- Culture: Urban Future. Mar 2019
- Port Sunlight's local listed building order. Mar 2019
- The benefits of investing in heritage at risk. Mar 2019
- The Devetaki Project. Mar 2019
- Conservation, climbing and graffiti. Feb 2019
- Walking interviews. Feb 2019
- Working with volunteers to care for heritage. Feb 2019
- Alternative futures for heritage. Jan 2019
- Building a Crossing Tower: a design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516. Jan 2019
- The Past and Future City. Jan 2019
- Sourcing stone to repair Exeter Cathedral. Sept 2018
- An ethnographic approach to conservation. Dec 2018
- Douglas Sea Terminal Building. Dec 2018
- Impact of heritage sector local authority funding cuts in south west England. Dec 2018
- Restoring the Palace of Westminster's ventilation system. Dec 2018
- The 18th century schooner Peggy. Dec 2018
- The Great Barn of 1425-27 at Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Dec 2018
- Hot-mixed mortars: the new lime revival. Nov 2018
- Inspecting historic fibrous plaster ceilings. Nov 2018
- The lost house revisited. Nov 2018
- Town and Country Planning Act 1968. Nov 2018
- Making Magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior. Oct 2018
- Mortar analysis for specifiers. Oct 2018
- Stone consolidants. Oct 2018
- 100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings. Sep 2018
- Are works to listed buildings demolition or alteration?. Sep 2018
- Finding stone to conserve historic buildings. Sep 2018
- Armitage Rigby. Aug 2018
- Building archaeology and conservation. Aug 2018
- Castle Rushen Quarterdeck. Aug 2018
- Conservation in the heritage cities of Venice and Liverpool. Aug 2018
- IHBC response to revised NPPF. Jul 2018
- St James's Priory, Bristol. Jul 2018
- The architecture of the Isle of Man. Jul 2018
- The TT races and the landscape. Jul 2018
- Traditional construction materials on the Isle of Man. Jul 2018
- 10,000 years of settlement on the Isle of Man. Jun 2018
- Floorscape in art and design. Jun 2018
- Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta. Jun 2018
- Private rented sector regulations and traditional buildings. Jun 2018
- Violet Pinwill, woodcarver. Jun 2018
- Glossary of paving terms. May 2018
- Gustavo Giovannoni on planning in historic towns. May 2018
- Howell Killick Partridge and Amis. May 2018
- Penarth Alabaster. May 2018
- Coal holes, pavement lights, kerbs and utilities and wood-block paving. Apr 2018
- Floors of the great medieval churches. Apr 2018
- IHBC responds to conservation critique. Apr 2018
- Photographing Historic Buildings. Apr 2018
- Britain's historic paving. Mar 2018
- Britain's Lost Churches. Mar 2018
- Heritage, Conservation and Communities. Mar 2018
- The history of listed buildings. Mar 2018
- Congestion in historic cities. Feb 2018
- The conservation of historic transport infrastructure. Feb 2018
- The landscapes of Cambridge. Feb 2018
- Traditional Homes of the South Downs National Park: an introduction. Feb 2018
- Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings. Jan 2018
- The Country House: material culture and consumption. Jan 2018
- Towns and cities in history. Jan 2018
- Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability. Jan 2018
- What makes a heritage-at-risk officer. Jan 2018
- Conservative surgery in Edinburgh. Dec 2017
- Rebuilding and reconciliation in Homs. Dec 2017
- The creative re-use of historic prisons. Dec 2017
- Conserving Ruchill Hospital water tower. Nov 2017
- IHBC warn government on retrofitting older homes. Nov 2017
- Liveable Yangon: for whom?. Nov 2017
- Reconciling conservation and sustainable development. Nov 2017
- The green belt and historic buildings. Nov 2017
- Car parking in conservation areas. Oct 2017
- Conservation as action and reaction. Oct 2017
- Planning for sustainable historic places. Oct 2017
- Small vernacular agricultural buildings in Wales. Oct 2017
- Space, Hope and Brutalism. Oct 2017
- Wimpole Gothic Tower conservation. Oct 2017
- Gardens Trust. Sep 2017
- Thermography for traditional buildings. Sep 2017
- Understanding the performance of solid walls. Sep 2017
- Energy efficiency for the National Trust. Aug 2017
- Energy-related retrofits of buildings and urban areas, a comparison between Germany and the UK. Aug 2017
- How to deal with retrofit risks. Aug 2017
- Understanding dampness. Aug 2017
- Fitness for purpose in listing considerations. Jul 2017
- Harrogate in 1988. Jul 2017
- Mr Barry's War. Jul 2017
- Scotland's Homes Fit for Heroes. Jul 2017
- The Each Home Counts report and traditional buildings. Jul 2017
- Capacity-building grants support management of the historic environment. Jun 2017
- Community engagement in conservation. Jun 2017
- Conservation areas and protecting open space. Jun 2017
- How to make conservation areas work. Jun 2017
- Is conservation area policy fit for purpose 50 years on. Jun 2017
- Restoring Clitheroe Pinnacle. Jun 2017
- After the Fire: London churches in the age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs. May 2017
- Chester, conservation as positive action. May 2017
- Civic Amenities Act. May 2017
- Compulsory purchase orders for listed buildings. May 2017
- Conservation in Chester. May 2017
- Conserving Cornish harbours. May 2017
- Education, training and standards for 21st century conservation professionals. May 2017
- Heritage perspectives on infrastructure. May 2017
- Integrating conservation in multi-disciplinary consultancies. May 2017
- Manor Farmhouse listed building prosecution. May 2017
- Recording old industrial sites. May 2017
- The history of conservation areas. May 2017
- The work of Delyn Borough Council in rehabilitating Greenfield Valley Heritage Park. May 2017
- Wall insulation and moisture risk. May 2017
- The conservation challenge facing Ireland’s industrial heritage. Mar 2017
- Energy efficiency of traditional buildings. Feb 2017
- IHBC Gus Astley Student Award 2016. Dec 2016
- Large-scale murals. Dec 2016
- Dudley townscape heritage initiative. Oct 2016
- Historic England's charged-for services for listing certainty and pre-application planning conversations. Oct 2016
- Malvern station, priory and other buildings. Oct 2016
- Nudge theory in relation to historic environment conservation. Oct 2016
- Saltaire. Oct 2016
- Tecton structures at Dudley Zoo. Oct 2016
- The King’s School, Worcester. Oct 2016
- Worcester sculptor William Forsyth. Oct 2016
- Worcester timber buildings and the Commandery. Oct 2016
- Worcester’s Georgian churches. Oct 2016
- Bromley Hall evolution. Sep 2016
- BS 7913: Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings. Sep 2016
- Conservation officers in historic towns. Sep 2016
- Landscapes of human exploitation. Sep 2016
- Restoring Charles Drake's concrete house. Sep 2016
- Restoring Singapore shophouses. Sep 2016
- Richard Norman Shaw and the construction of Albert Hall Mansions. Sep 2016
- Use of railway carriages as holiday homes and permanent housing. Sep 2016
- Chinese renaissance architecture in China and Hong Kong. Aug 2016
- Decision support for energy improvements. Aug 2016
- Implementing the Heritage Protection Reforms. Aug 2016
- Retrofit measures for historic buildings and cities. Aug 2016
- The Hong Kong shophouse. Aug 2016
- Appeals against urgent works notices. Jun 2016
- Cautions or formal warnings in relation to potential listed building offences in England and Wales. Jun 2016
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice part 2. Jun 2016
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice. Jun 2016
- Conservation practice survey 2016. Jun 2016
- Forced entry to listed buildings. Jun 2016
- French drain. Jun 2016
- Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition. Jun 2016
- IHBC Context 144. Jun 2016
- IHBC Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database. Jun 2016
- Local authority conservation specialists jobs market 2014. Jun 2016
- Loss of senior conservation staff and posts in England March 2010 to April 2011. Jun 2016
- Negotiating skills for conservation professionals. Jun 2016
- Planning authority duty to provide specialist conservation advice. Jun 2016
- Planning related applications for judicial review. Jun 2016
- Presenting to design review panels. Jun 2016
- Restoring Kew's Temperate House. Jun 2016
- Summary of appeals at October 2014 under S.55 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Jun 2016
- Tax Relief for Heritage: Lessons from abroad. Jun 2016
- Urgent works in advance of a listed building consent. Jun 2016
- Use of direct action in heritage enforcement cases in England. Jun 2016
- Use of injunctions in heritage cases in England and Wales. Jun 2016
- Valuing historic places. Jun 2016
- VAT Policy for historic buildings. Jun 2016
- What data should be incorporated into Historic Environment Records. Jun 2016
- Conservation of the historic environment. Dec 2015
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CIC’s Coronavirus Digest review and survey
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COVID-19: Advice and Updates collated from the Heritage Sector
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Councils considering ‘executive powers’ as measures to avoid planning gridlock
Councils are reported to be considering taking up rarely-used executive powers to keep the planning and development system moving during the coronavirus pandemic.
Historic England provides updated flood recovery advice
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Conservation of Timber Buildings: an example of evolving conservation techniques
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Call for VAT rates for Refurbishment to be Reduced
To meet the government’s target of being carbon neutral by 2050, we must recycle, reuse and responsibly adapt our existing historic buildings, according to this year’s Heritage Counts report, so Historic England and partners are calling for a reduction in VAT rates to incentivise this more sustainable option.
Grade II Edwardian swimming baths in Birmingham restored
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IHBC Marsh Award Nominations – Closing Date 30 March
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Biodiversity Net Gain through UK Construction Projects
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How Project Managers for Town Centre Developments can Balance Risk
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Red Tape is Strangling our High Streets
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Calculating the full cost of energy used by buildings
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