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).
- 100 Sustainable Scottish Buildings.
- 10,000 years of settlement on the Isle of Man.
- After the Fire: London churches in the age of Wren, Hooke, Hawksmoor and Gibbs.
- Appeals against urgent works notices.
- Are works to listed buildings demolition or alteration?
- Armitage Rigby.
- Britain's Lost Churches.
- Britain's historic paving.
- Bromley Hall evolution
- BS 7913: Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings.
- Building archaeology and conservation.
- Capacity-building grants support management of the historic environment.
- Car parking in conservation areas.
- Castle Rushen Quarterdeck.
- Cautions or formal warnings in relation to potential listed building offences in England and Wales
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice
- Charging for Listed Building Consent pre-application advice part 2
- Chester, conservation as positive action.
- Chinese renaissance architecture in China and Hong Kong.
- Civic Amenities Act.
- Coal holes, pavement lights, kerbs and utilities and wood-block paving.
- Community engagement in conservation.
- Compulsory purchase orders for listed buildings.
- Congestion in historic cities.
- Conservation areas and protecting open space.
- Conservation as action and reaction.
- Conservation in Chester.
- Conservation in the heritage cities of Venice and Liverpool.
- Conservation of the historic environment
- Conservation officers in historic towns.
- Conservation practice survey 2016
- Conservative surgery in Edinburgh.
- Conserving Cornish harbours.
- Conserving Ruchill Hospital water tower.
- Decision support for energy improvements.
- Douglas Sea Terminal Building.
- Dudley townscape heritage initiative.
- Education, training and standards for 21st century conservation professionals.
- Energy Efficiency and Comfort of Historic Buildings.
- Energy efficiency for the National Trust.
- Energy efficiency of traditional buildings.
- Energy-related retrofits of buildings and urban areas, a comparison between Germany and the UK.
- Finding stone to conserve historic buildings.
- Fitness for purpose in listing considerations.
- Floors of the great medieval churches.
- Floorscape in art and design.
- Forced entry to listed buildings
- French drain.
- Gardens Trust.
- Gustavo Giovannoni on planning in historic towns.
- Glossary of paving terms.
- Harrogate in 1988.
- Heritage, Conservation and Communities.
- Heritage perspectives on infrastructure.
- Historic England's charged-for services for listing certainty and pre-application planning conversations.
- Historic Environment Service Provider Recognition
- How to make conservation areas work.
- How to deal with retrofit risks.
- Howell Killick Partridge and Amis.
- Hot-mixed mortars: the new lime revival.
- IHBC articles
- IHBContext144
- IHBC Listed Buildings Prosecutions Database
- IHBC responds to conservation critique.
- IHBC response to revised NPPF.
- IHBC warn government on retrofitting older homes.
- Impact of heritage sector local authority funding cuts in south west England.
- Implementing the Heritage Protection Reforms.
- Inspecting historic fibrous plaster ceilings.
- Integrating conservation in multi-disciplinary consultancies.
- Is conservation area policy fit for purpose 50 years on.
- Landscapes of human exploitation.
- Large-scale murals.
- Liveable Yangon: for whom?
- Local authority conservation specialists jobs market 2014
- Loss of senior conservation staff and posts in England March 2010 to April 2011
- Making Magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior.
- Malvern station, priory and other buildings.
- Manor Farmhouse listed building prosecution.
- Mortar analysis for specifiers.
- Mr Barry's War.
- Negotiating skills for conservation professionals
- Nudge theory in relation to historic environment conservation
- Penarth Alabaster
- Photographing Historic Buildings.
- Planning authority duty to provide specialist conservation advice
- Planning for sustainable historic places.
- Planning related applications for judicial review.
- Practical Building Conservation: Earth, Brick and Terracotta.
- Private rented sector regulations and traditional buildings.
- Presenting to design review panels.
- Rebuilding and reconciliation in Homs.
- Reconciling conservation and sustainable development.
- Recording old industrial sites.
- Restoring Charles Drake's concrete house.
- Restoring Clitheroe Pinnacle.
- Restoring Kew’s Temperate House
- Restoring Singapore shophouses
- Retrofit measures for historic buildings and cities.
- Richard Norman Shaw and the construction of Albert Hall Mansions.
- Saltaire.
- Scotland's Homes Fit for Heroes.
- Small vernacular agricultural buildings in Wales.
- Sourcing stone to repair Exeter Cathedral.
- Space, Hope and Brutalism.
- St James's Priory, Bristol.
- Stone consolidants.
- Summary of appeals at October 2014 under S.55 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.
- Tax Relief for Heritage: Lessons from abroad.
- Tecton structures at Dudley Zoo.
- The 18th century schooner Peggy.
- The architecture of the Isle of Man.
- The conservation challenge facing Ireland’s industrial heritage.
- The conservation of historic transport infrastructure.
- The Country House: material culture and consumption.
- The creative re-use of historic prisons.
- The Each Home Counts report and traditional buildings.
- The Great Barn of 1425-27 at Harmondsworth, Middlesex.
- The green belt and historic buildings.
- The history of conservation areas.
- The history of listed buildings.
- The Hong Kong shophouse
- The Institute of Historic Building Conservation
- The King’s School, Worcester.
- The landscapes of Cambridge.
- The lost house revisited.
- The TT races and the landscape.
- The work of Delyn Borough Council in rehabilitating Greenfield Valley Heritage Park.
- Thermography for traditional buildings.
- Towns and cities in history.
- Town and Country Planning Act 1968.
- Traditional construction materials on the Isle of Man.
- Traditional Homes of the South Downs National Park: an introduction.
- Understanding dampness.
- Understanding the performance of solid walls.
- Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability.
- Urgent works in advance of a listed building consent
- Use of direct action in heritage enforcement cases in England
- Use of injunctions in heritage cases in England and Wales
- Use of railway carriages as holiday homes and permanent housing
- Valuing historic places
- VAT Policy for historic buildings.
- Violet Pinwill, woodcarver.
- Wall insulation and moisture risk.
- What data should be incorporated into Historic Environment Records.
- What makes a heritage-at-risk officer.
- Wimpole Gothic Tower conservation.
- Worcester timber buildings and the Commandery.
- Worcester’s Georgian churches.
- Worcester sculptor William Forsyth.
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CPD check-up and prize: ‘Who said that?’ – And what would you say back? FREE BS7913 for the best responses…
IHBC Chair at 2018 Heritage Day: A personal take and update
IHBC’s Chair James Caird attended the 2018 Heritage Day, led by England’s heritage link body, The Heritage Alliance (THA), and offers readers an update on his day.
IHBC raises objections in high-level Historic Environment Advisor Apprenticeship
IHBC has lodged its concerns and objections to current proposals submitted by Historic England's 'Trailblazer' Group to the Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) for approval.
Latest IHBC Council+ corners the tables to see how best to deliver member services
IHBC has concluded the 7th Council+ meeting, the institute’s UK-wide forum for volunteers’ national oversight and development, which took place in London.
DesigningBuildings Wiki features IHBC Context celebrating 50 years of the TCPA
Tucked away in Part V of the Town and Country Planning Ace was a revolution in heritage conservation that Timothy Cantell has explored in IHBC’s Context.
UK Green Building Council has reported on the launch of Hawkins/Brown’s new tool to quickly visualise the embodied carbon of buildings at any point in the building lifecycle.
AHF - new partnership Heritage Impact Fund to be launched in early 2019
The Architectural Heritage Fund has announced the fund as part of its ongoing work to increase the levels of social investment supporting the heritage sector.
BRE and USGBC announce new partnership
Two built environment organisations have announced the first building quality and performance partnership of its kind partnering to raise global sustainability standards.
Civic Voice: Guidance tool for communities to identify local heritage assets
A resource developed as part of Civic Voice’s Big Conservation Conversation and their ‘Local Heritage List’ campaign.
Landmark - online archive of History Albums now accessible
Landmark’s History Albums is now available online making the detailed research undertaken on each Landmark digitally available to all.
Joint Committee on draft Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill
Call for evidence, closing 18 January, inviting views on whether the governance structures for the Restoration and Renewal (R&R) Programme are appropriate.
Updates on programme on planning reform in England
The latest version of the Planning Directorate Newsletter brings readers up to date with the England’s programme of planning reform.
Specialist contractors call for government regulation of the construction industry
The chairman of the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group wants to government to set up a statutory authority to regulate construction industry practice.
Wellcome’s Living with Buildings exhibition on until to 3 March in London examines the positive and negative influence buildings have on our physical and mental health.
The economic value of culture - a benefit transfer study on museums in England
New research has been published to help understand the visitor and non-visitor value of cultural engagement at 4 cultural institutions in England – is this transferrable?
England - Open Doors pilot scheme closing 31 Dec
Government in England’s pilot scheme to match landlords struggling to find tenants for their empty properties with community groups looking for space.
RTPI to investigate strategic infrastructure planning
New research commissioned from University of the West of England in partnership with PBA (part of Stantec), on how strategic infrastructure planning is carried out.
Scottish Lochside House named House of the Year 2018
Lochside House, a breathtaking new home in the West Highlands designed by HaysomWardMiller Architects has been named the 2018 RIBA House of the Year.